Black Annis: The Blue-Faced Hag Who Hunted the Children of England
There is a cave in the Dane Hills on the western edge of Leicester that locals once refused to approach […]
The Black Wood of Rannoch: Ancient Spirits and Something That Followed Us Through the Trees
There are forests, and then there are the old forests. The ones that were ancient when the first human settlements
Glen Lyon: Vampiric Fae, Haunted Castles and Something in the Dark
There are valleys in Scotland that feel wrong in a way you cannot quite articulate. Not threatening exactly, not hostile,
Wanlockhead: Ghosts, Giants and the Dark Legends of Scotland’s Highest Village
There are places that seem to carry their history in the air itself. Wanlockhead is one of them. Sitting at
Isobel Gowdie: The Most Extraordinary Witch Confession in Scottish History
In the spring of 1662, in the parish of Auldearn in the Scottish Highlands, a woman walked into a church
Vampires: The Ancient Origins of History’s Most Feared Creature
Long before Bram Stoker put a name to the darkness, before the castle on the hill and the widow’s peak
Jiangshi: China’s Hopping Vampire That Terrorised the Living
There is something uniquely unsettling about the Jiangshi. Not because it is the most powerful of the world’s undead traditions,
Harpies: Ancient Greece’s Winged Terrors
They came without warning. One moment the table was set, the food laid out, the air still. Then the beating
Chimera: The Fire-Breathing Monster That Haunted Ancient Greece
There are monsters, and then there is the Chimera. A creature so grotesque, so fundamentally wrong in its very construction,
Centaurs: The Half-Human Beasts Who Terrorised the Ancient World
They galloped out of the wild places, half-man and half-horse, their hooves shaking the earth of ancient Greece. Neither fully