Contributors
Susan Alexander left the corporate world as a V.P. to become a woodcarver. She is a member of Mensa, has had three novels published, was a columnist for Carving Magazine, holds a black belt in Judo, completely rewired a ’67 Mustang, and has a wonderful rescue pup named Charlie. She carves a hidden heart in every carving in honor of her husband, who fully supported her woodcarving career.
“Releasing Wood Spirits,” FG7
Nina Antonia began exploring supernatural themes in her work after many years of writing about the more wayward characters in rock ‘n’ roll. Her books include the novel The Greenwood Faun (Egaeus Press, 2017) and the collection Incurable (Strange Attractor Press, 2018), both of which explore the lives and works of Decadent-era poets.
Flitting, FGX2019
A Purple Thread, PPE2001
Artnoose has been self-publishing the letterpress zine Ker-bloom! every other month since the summer of 1996. She’s traveled around North America on DIY literary tours and spent a handful of years living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but more recently has been parenting a young child while running her letterpress printing company, Deep Ink Letterpress, near the train tracks in west Berkeley.
“Bigwigs & Pipkins,” FG4
Anton Barbeau plays “pre-apocalyptic psychedelic pop.” He’s a Taurus, born in Sacramento and now living by a canal in Berlin. He’s made something like thirty albums and has worked with members of XTC, The Soft Boys, the Bevis Frond, Cake, the Loud Family, and Mystery Lawn label-mates the Corner Laughers.
“Mushroom Madness,” FG7
Alexis Berger is an illustrator, painter, and Murano glass artist. Her work is inspired by art and design from the Belle Epoch period and forms found in the natural world, and often incorporates themes from folklore and myth. A Bay Area native and a Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Berger works out of a studio in Berkeley.
Illustration, “Mast,” FG2
Illustration, “On Skepticism,” FG4
Illustration, “Alice,” FG5
Illustration, Nine Defenses Against the Basilisk, FG1102
Illustration, “A is for Apple,” FG7
Illustration, The Nearly Perfect Necromancy of Lady Mondegreen, PPE2201
F.J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Madison, Wisconsin, Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov’s SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. Her chapbook A Catalogue of the Further Suns won the 2017 Gold Line Press poetry contest and the 2018 SFPA Elgin Chapbook Award.
“Old Growth,” FG6
Oliver Bly is a writer and illustrator working from the Wissahickon Woodlands of Philadelphia. When not capering through the forest with his wife and pup, he can be found scribbling away on his upcoming graphic novel, The Mushroom Knight.
Illustration, Exploding the Tangerine, FG1201
Susan Redington Bobby is an author and the creatrix of Professor of Words, LLC, where she is an editor, tutor, and writing mentor. She teaches classes on film, literature, and esoteric subjects for Ritualcravt School, and is the series editor for Tales from Fiddler’s Green.
Editor, TFG1
Editor, TFG2
Danica Boyce was a medievalist and schoolteacher until she escaped the enclosure to become a podcaster and pagan life coach. She is known for writing and producing Fair Folk, a podcast sharing the sacred folklore and folksong of Europe. Most days she takes long walks, worships hidden gods, and guides people to reconnect with their own peculiarities and the abundance innate in the world. This pamphlet is an adaptation of the 2019 “Gnome for Christmas” episode of Fair Folk.
Tomten, PPE2101
Rebecca Buchanan is the editor of the Pagan literary ezine Eternal Haunted Summer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Corvid Queen, Dreams & Nightmares, Enchanted Conversation, Star*Line, and Strange Horizons. Her poem “Heliobacterium daphnephilum” won the Rhysling Award for Long Poem in 2020.
“A Maid Stands Upon a Hill,” TFG2
Alice Cao is an illustrator who specialises in traditional pen-and-ink illustration with the occasional splash of watercolour. Originally hailing from Vietnam, she loves to explore history, mythology, and folklore in her work. Most days, Alice can be found conjuring inky worlds in her home studio in the old town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, where she resides with her partner, an indoor jungle, and a growing army of garden statues.
Illustration, “Sitting Out,” FG8
Illustration, The Ring of Truth, FG1401
Dene Carter is the co-creator of the Fable and Dungeon Keeper videogame franchises and is a solo BAFTA nominee. His fascination with myths and magic can be seen in his large-scale works as well as his solo projects Spellrazor and Wardenclyffe. When not working, Dene can be found making unsettling electronic music while twirling an unfeasible waxed mustache.
“Pagan Truths in Moominland,” FG5
Alex CF is an illustrator, author, and sculptor living in Bristol. He is the creator of the novel Seek the Throat from Which We Sing. The book, CF’s first in a series based on his overarching mythology of the Orata, has been described by writer Gary Dalkin as “a pagan environmental animal epic.”
“Gods of the Downs,” FG4
Craig Conley is the author of Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy, which lists all the family names connected to Alfred the Great, who in turn proved his descent from the god Odin. Conley has also written the dictionaries Magic Words (Weiser Books) and One-Letter Words (HarperCollins), as well as A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns By Sound, How to Believe in Your Elf, The Care and Feeding of a Spirit Board, and dozens of other titles.
“The Five Norths of the Left-Hand Path,” FG2
“How to Learn a New Magic Word from a Wishing Well,” FG4
“An Anagrammatical Ancestor Spell,” FG5
“Theogony Made Simple,” FG7
Lara C. Cory is a freelance writer based in the United Kingdom, specialising in music, film, and food with an interest in folk wisdom, magic, and the mysteries of wild seas and the natural world. The co-author of Animal Music: Sound & Song in the Natural World (Strange Attractor Press), Lara is also the editor of the interview website 15 Questions and enjoys weaving, singing, and writing short stories and plays.
“The Art of Magic,” FG6
Allen Crawford is an illustrator, author, and naturalist. His last book, Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself, was a 256-page illustrated edition of Walt Whitman’s poem, “Song of Myself.” He is currently working on an illustrated book on endangered species, scheduled for release in April 2023 (Tin House).
The Peculiar Parish Editions Green Man logo
Bill Crisafi is an artist who lives and works in Chicago. His body of work is heavily influenced by the dark nostalgia of his home state of Massachusetts. He communicates his ideas through illustration, sculpture, and photography which explore themes of magic, folklore, and occultism merged together with a touch of humor. His photographic work developed from his passion for costume construction and allows him to bring to life the world he creates in pen and ink.
Illustration, “The Call of the Wild,” FG8
Alan Cynic has recorded many albums of folk and psychedelia under the name Kitchen Cynics. He has played live with Tom Rapp and Damo Suzuki, and is in the folk / improv duo Barrett’s Dottled Beauty.
“The Wizard Laird,” FG6
“Kilgour’s Tale,” FG6
David V. D’Andrea is an artist and freelance illustrator based in Portland, Oregon, where he runs the charitable imprint Samaritan Press. His graphics for bands including OM, Sleep, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor have garnered international acclaim. His work is his spiritual path, and he travels the world in search of creative comrades and events.
Illustration, “Doing God a Favour,” FG6
Illustration, The Pleasure, PPE2301
Evan Davies is a writer, artist, editor, and musician. He walks a solitary path in terms of the witchcraft and magick to which he is drawn, and he has held a lifelong interest in the occult. He is the editor for Anathema Publishing, and currently he lives in Toronto with his wife, Elsa, their cats, Penelope and Witchy, and dog, Freyja.
"Two Stones: A Tale from the Medieval Bestiary," TFG1
Erik Davis is an author, teacher, and scholar based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (2019). His other books include The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (2006), a critical volume on Led Zeppelin (2005), and the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998). He writes the online publication The Burning Shore, and in 2022, he co-founded the Alembic, a Berkeley center for meditation, movement, citizen neuroscience, and visionary culture.
The Pleasure, PPE2301
Jo de Groot lives in a small basement apartment in the middle of Canada where she spends far too much time reading, dreaming, wishing, and thinking about writing, and not enough time going on adventures, eating cake, or actually writing.
"Persephone Dreams," TFG2
"The Witch’s Prescriptions," TFG2
Cody Dickerson is an artist, author, teacher, blacksmith, and father residing with his family in the Pacific Northwest. His inaugural book, The Language of the Corpse, was published by Three Hands Press in 2016. He has also contributed to Wyrd Journal, Verdant Gnosis III, and the Three Hands Press prospectus, Auspices.
“Of Magic and Manners,” FG4
Ivo Dominguez, Jr. has been active in Wicca and the pagan community since 1978. He is one of the Elders and founders of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel. He is the author of Keys To Perception, Practical Astrology for Witches and Pagans, Casting Sacred Space, Spirit Speak, Beneath the Skins, and numerous shorter works. Ivo lives in Delaware in the woods of Seelie Court.
“Methods of the Skryer,” FG5
Drowned Orange is a traditional nib-and-ink illustrator and printmaker based in northern Germany. Her work portrays women, death, mythology, and forms found in nature. Over a good cup of tea, she likes to dwell on details and occasionally add a spark of Art Nouveau to her illustrations. Her artwork has been featured in several exhibitions in South Korea, the United States, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as on record covers and other music-related publications.
Illustration, “The Written Word Where the Veil is Thin,” FG7
Conor Duffy hails from Ireland, where he came to a quick understanding that there are things beyond our regular vision that you shouldn’t annoy. He now lives in Ohio, wandering its many beautiful trails and dreaming of the beautiful, frightening, astounding magic hidden beneath the mundane. He is a writer of both prose and screenplays.
“The Hole in the Garden,” TFG2
Faun Fables front woman Dawn McCarthy is a Renaissance lady who enjoys singing, theater, folklore, dancing, traveling, nature, and studies of the hearth and food history. Her performing background was forged in oral tradition amidst a large musical family in Spokane, Washington and continued with studies in music theater, rock bands, Action Theater, Polish theater, and ethnomusicology.
"Elfrida," TFG1
Sean Fitzgerald is an illustrator who lives in a remote area of the northwest of Ireland, a place with ancient forbidding mythology as well as foregone ritualistic ceremonies. His art investigates these and the darker elements from mythology, folk magic, and pre-Christian Ireland.
“Megalithic Donegal,” FG6
Folklore Tapes encompasses a diverse group of artists who are united by their exploration and interpretation of tales, heritage, and myths that previously have laid obscured by religion, the Industrial Revolution, and, more recently, our digital lives, to build a new record of lore and legend. The act of exploring our shared history as a process of self-identification has become an important ethos of the collective and projects emerge through spontaneous encounters with landscape and archive. They manifest their processes through film, sound, projection, installation, and performance.
“The Art of Magic,” FG6
Alan Forbes is a rock music poster artist. He developed the signature icon of The Black Crowes, as well as posters, symbols, and album artworks for many other bands, including Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, The Offspring, White Stripes, AFI, Dinosaur Jr., and The Misfits. He was born in Connecticut and currently lives in San Francisco. Aside from his commercial work, he occasionally exhibits found sculptures.
Illustration, “Wandering Wizards Welcome”
Natalia Forty is a writer, reader, and divinatrix, born on a small island in the Caribbean. She has nearly completed an MA in Literary Theory and Criticism and is the writer behind the blog Mist and Ether. She strives to live with a sense of mystery and wonder, while frequently shuffling a pack of cards.
"Down by the Sea," TFG1
Matthew J. Gallagher is a graduate of Wesley College, where he guest-lectured creative writing and literature classes between writing plays and short stories. Since graduating he has raised a family with his wife Alicia while working full-time as a software developer, somehow finding time to write. When he’s not writing, he’s usually found working on the farm, rehearsing a part for the local theater, submitting inventions to be patented, blacksmithing, tinkering with electronics, streaming Dungeons & Dragons with friends on Twitch for charity, developing video games, reading, or trying to convince his daughters that their dinner is not poisoned.
"Where Once the Wild," TFG2
Adam Gaylord has published stories in Penumbra eMag, Diabolical Plots, and the Cast of Wonders podcast, among others. His gladiatorial fantasy novel Sol of the Coliseum was released by Mirror World Publishing in 2015.
"Abyss," TFG2
Gerhard worked for twenty years as background artist, environmental designer, and cover colorist on the Cerebus graphic novel, hailed by The Comics Journal as “one of the most sprawling pieces of visual fiction ever created.” Since completing Cerebus in 2004, he has been exploring other creative endeavors including commissioned work.
Illustration, Armchair Demonology, FG1104
Illustration, “The Confederacy of the Green Door,” FG6
Matthew Glover is the artist behind Sin Eater Illustration. He lives deep in the heart of Herefordshire in the English countryside. Glover’s work reflects his fascination with animal forms and is produced by hand. Detached from the contemporary, the art of Sin Eater is a call into the echoing chasms of the past. He has contributed interior illustration to the magazine since Fiddler’s Green 6.
Cover illustration, FG6
Illustration, “Birds of a Feather”
Heather Gorse is at least partly sure that she’s a fully grown changeling. She’s very sure that stories, green and growing things, and wild places are filled with enchantment and that we only need to look to experience it. Heather is a trans woman and this story is her first submission under her own name, having first been in print thirty years ago.
“Knots,” TFG2
Niall Grant is an English Illustrator specializing in Art Nouveau and Golden Age storybook illustration. His work is a unique blend of those styles, with a visual focus on elegant, flowing shapes and intricate detail. Some recently published editions include: The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean and The Longest Autumn by Amy Avery, as well as the myth and folklore collection The Golden Thread, The Silver Bough, and The Bronze Serpent, by Amy Dyer.
Cover and interior illustration, TFG2
Jessica Noel Grissom currently lives in a small Texas town with her husband and their rainbow baby. Her passions include books, writing, chocolate, jewelry, traveling, and tea. She obtained an MBA from Dallas Baptist University and worked in the business industry for eighteen years. Her story “Ascensión” was published in the creative writing journal The Image at Southwestern Assemblies of God University. In her spare time, she records a podcast that focuses on honest discussions and practical tips for living.
“Lady Nilar’s Wings,” TFG2
Samantha Hathaway is an aspiring young-adult and children’s book author with two fantasy novels and one picture book in the works. She has a B. A. in English Literature and is working on becoming a freelance writer in addition to her publication pursuits. She is a part-time artist with a new small business where she makes collectible art toys, fantasy art, and book-inspired goods. She plans to write and fully illustrate her children’s picture book which she hopes will be her first published work with a major publishing house. You can find her reading, writing, and drawing all things myth, folklore, and the paranormal.
“Come Away,” TFG2
Ken Henson is a Curtis G. Lloyd Fellow of the Lloyd Library and Museum and the author and illustrator of Alchemy and Astral Projection: Ecstatic Trance in the Hermetic Tradition. In 2013, he restored Manly P. Hall and John Augustus Knapp’s historic 1929 tarot deck for the Philosophical Research Society. He is currently working on the republication of John Uri Lloyd’s classic occult novel Etidorhpa, also illustrated by Knapp.
“Where Art Meets the Occult,” FG1SE
Elin Heron lives in the very centre of England, teaching music, Welsh, and the tarot to both adults and children. A writer of short and long-form fiction, Elin regards this as the foundation of her magical praxis. She is currently working towards a master's degree in writing as well as researching the Welsh bard Taliesin, after whom she named her son.
“A is for Apple,” FG7
Tom Hirons is a writer and storyteller based in Devon, England. He is also co-founder and ringmaster of Hedgespoken, a travelling off-grid storytelling theatre based on the back of a vintage lorry, in which he lives with his partner, Rima Staines, and their young son.
“The Lapwing Stars,” FG4
Jeff Hoke is the award-winning author and illustrator of The Museum of Lost Wonder and has designed environments for museums in the United States, the Czech Republic, India, and Japan.
“Landscapes of the Imagination,” FG3
Illustration, Our Bogeys, Our Shelves, FG1301
Illustration, “The Heroine’s Journey,” FG7
Hole Dweller is a fantasy dungeon synth artist who’s pastoral soundscapes take inspiration from the rich lore of Middle-earth, with a heavy focus of all things hobbits and the Shire. Born and raised in Athens, Georgia, USA, composer Tim Rowland founded Hole Dweller in the summer of 2019 with his debut release, Flies the Coop. Following the overwhelming reception of the debut album, Tim then released four more full-lengths and two EPs, with the latest album titled With Dreams of Hereafter. Hole Dweller has worked almost exclusively with Dungeons Deep Records since its inception, selling thousands of cassette tapes, as well as vinyl and merch.
“Yondershire Fields,” TFG2
Ryan E. Holman has work published or forthcoming in BSFAN, Enchanted Conversation, Maryland Literary Review, Eternal Haunted Summer, and Corvid Queen. She enjoys writing about mundane and fantastic life through the lens of the elements and currently lives in the mid-Atlantic United States.
“How to Banish a Bad Year,” TFG2
Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award–winning historian who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Salon. The Washington Post says Horowitz “treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today’s raised-voice discussions.” Horowitz is a Science of Mind columnist and the author of Occult America (Bantam) and One Simple Idea (Crown), a history of New Thought.
“Mind Power: A Manifesto,” FG3
Meredith Howe is a solitary witch, herbalist, poet, and occasional teacher who has devoted her life and work to lighting the paths between the worlds of plants, animals, and humankind. Her current studies include plant-based protection magic and the death traditions of the indigenous tribes of Northern California.
“The Mirror as Muse,” FG5
Sheryl Humphrey is a writer and artist in Staten Island, New York. She received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA from Brooklyn College. She is the author of The Haunted Garden: Death and Transfiguration in the Folklore of Plants. Her stories have appeared in anthologies from Egaeus Press, most recently in The Book of Flowering.
"The Whisker Reliquary," TFG1
Nataša Ilinčić is an artist and illustrator living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is inspired by mythology and the dark corners of history and folklore. In 2017 Ilinčić was shortlisted for the Folio Society Book Illustration Competition, and in 2018 for the World Illustration Awards.
“A Compendium of Witches,” FG6
Andrew Rucker Jones is a former IT expert and American expatriate living in Germany with his Georgian wife and their three children. He quit his day job to become an author, and he has yet to regret it..
“Paper and Fire,” TFG2
Jack Kaide is a writer, musician, and teacher living in Hackney, London. His short stories have recently been featured in Horrified Magazine, Skullgate Media’s Tales from the Year Between, and The NoSleep Podcast. He is currently working on his first novel, The Green Man.
“The Green Wood,” TFG2
William Kiesel is an independent scholar researching occultism and western esotericism in practical and historical contexts. He is particularly interested in esoteric symbol-systems and their use as manifested in alchemical, hermetic, and occult traditions. He is the founder of Ouroboros Press and the proprietor of Mortlake & Company.
“Beauty in Union, Genius in Solitude,” FG2SE
Moritz Krebs is an illustrator from Germany. Inspired by Renaissance and Art Nouveau artists, folklore, and fairy tales, his black-ink works depict the more grotesque and bizarre side of dark fantasy worlds.
Illustration, “Who Shall Inherit the Earth?” FG7
Illustration, “The Scarecrow: Harbinger of a Better World,” FG8
Eli Kwake is a trans nonbinary author from Pasadena, California. They don’t do boring. When they aren’t writing, they’re doing theater, burlesque, or making mischief at a renaissance festival. But mostly they’re writing, lost in a world of their own making. After all, why live in reality when there are so many other worlds to explore?
“Between the Desert and the Green,” TFG2
Virginia Lee is an illustrator of several children’s books, and recently illustrated a set of cards for The Enchanted Lenormand Oracle. She has sculpted for film as well as numerous of her own surreal characters. In her personal work, Virginia uses her own visual language to explore themes of transformation and connection to nature, creating realms where deep aspects of the psyche are embodied in folkloric characters and revealed in the mythic landscape.
Illustration, “Bigwigs & Pipkins,” FG4
Connie Todd Lila writes, tends herbs, studies folklore and fairy tales, and drags interesting things home from the Central Wisconsin woods she shares with her husband, their resident flock of crows, and the Devas that preside over their gardens. Her work has appeared in Enchanted Conversation, Hypnopomp, and three anthologies of dark fiction. Rumi—and one of her runestones—both advised, “Unfold your personal myth,”…so that is what she has been doing.
"Changeling," TFG1
“A Faint Taste of Scorch,” TFG2
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a writer, animal tracker, textile artist, and naturalist. Her fiction and nonfiction explore the tenets of deep ecology and wild myth. She is the creatrix of Elk Lines, The Gray Fox Epistles, The Leveret Letters, and all projects associated with Wild Talewort.
“Mast,” FG2
Sammy Lobenstein is a graduate of Wright State University and on the final steps of earning their MLIS from Drexel University. Outside of their nine to five and schoolwork, they spend most of their free time writing for their blog and are on a journey to turn their writing passion into a career.
“The Fairy,” TFG2
Apio Ludd is an aging anarchist, a playful poet, and a practitioner of self-creative wonderplay. He writes, translates, and publishes chapbooks, pamphlets, zines, and broadsheets and loves clearing the air with lawless laughter.
“Utopia and Its Discontents,” FG7
Kenneth MacKriell is a dad, veteran martial artist, archer, fletcher, teacher, railwayman, Classicist, and proud geek. His first novel is Hunting Party. He lives in East Sussex.
“England, My Lionheart,” FG4
Melissa Madara is an herbalist, storyteller, educator, editor of Venefica Magazine, and co-owner at Catland Books in Brooklyn. Her work explores the intersections of the plant, animal, and human worlds, with a particular focus on poisons and venoms, and she is a cursed triple Gemini.
“Gettin’ On Okay,” FG4
“Who Shall Inherit the Earth?” FG7
Grey Malkin is a folk/psych veteran formerly of The Hare and The Moon. Malkin has worked with Kitchen Cynics, Sourdeline, Timothy Renner (Stone Breath), and David Colohan (United Bible Studies).
“Kilgour’s Tale,” FG6
Clint Marsh is the editor of Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine. His books include The Mentalist’s Handbook and (with Karima Cammell) The Troll Cookbook.
Kristopher Martin is an illustrator from Kansas City. Known professionally as Arcane Path, he explores themes of nature, history, and mysticism through pen-and-ink drawing and the classic craft of analog printmaking. Kristopher works primarily in the print and music industries creating custom illustrations, gig posters, album covers, apparel, and more. He has contributed interior illustration to the magazine since Fiddler’s Green 7.
Neil Martinson is a writer, artist, and student of various Western esoteric currents. He published two issues of Proof: The Magazine of Virtuous Reality, and is the author of a book about the American band Chrome and liner notes for the British recording project Dome. Martinson is currently working on a history of progressive rock, the comic book The Incarnation, and a metaphysical memoir provisionally titled Self Hypnosis Made Impossible. Originally from New York City, he has spent the last three decades in California, making a modest and unpredictable living by organizing, hosting, promoting, and DJing live music events and festivals.
“The Scarecrow: Harbinger of a Better World,” FG8
Caitlin Mattisson is an illustrator, artist and CCA(C) alum. Born in San Francisco, she currently lives and works in the Oakland hills with her German Shepherd, Trebuchet. Her work is influenced by women, animals, ancient symbolism, and magic. She works primarily for musicians and fashion projects that inspire her.
Illustration, “The Mirror as Muse,” FG5
Josh Maybrook is a poet with a predilection for the strange and numinous. Born in New Jersey, he currently resides in Scotland, where he seeks inspiration amid the haunted crags and forests surrounding Edinburgh. His work has appeared in numerous small-press journals, most recently Lovecraftiana and Spectral Realms.
“The Magic Quest,” FG8
Samuel McCabe is a gardener, writer, and tarot reader at Ritualcravt. His work is inspired by Bible lore, grimoire magic, and American folk traditions. An Ohio native, he lived and worked in southern Vermont as an oil painter before moving to Denver, Colorado, where he now resides.
“Descended Masters,” FG7
Reviewer, FG7
Mink and Mann are an artistic duo operating in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they work to document and preserve the legacy of the Ladies of Happenstance.
“Anti-Nightmare Wallpaper (and the Ladies Behind It),” FG3
Dan Micklethwaite writes stories in a shed in the north of England. His most recent short fiction has featured in NewMyths, Thrilling Words, and Flame Tree’s Epic Fantasy anthology. His debut novel, The Less Than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote, was published by Bluemoose Books and shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. He is currently at work on his second book.
"If a Tree Falls," TFG1
Johnny Decker Miller is the author of Dark Magic: H. P. Lovecraft, Starry Wisdom and the Contagion of Fear (Three Hands Press) and has contributed artwork and writing to works from Anathema Publishing, Ouroboros Press, Inner Traditions, and Three Hands Press. He has exhibited widely, creating art and set design for Lollapalooza and television series including The Exorcist. He lives in northeastern Illinois.
“Musings of an Urban Herb Hunter,” FG6
Illustration, “Henbane Seeds Five in the Snath of a Scythe,” FG8
Levannah Morgan has been actively involved in witchcraft for nearly forty years. She spent her childhood in a remote part of the Welsh-speaking island of Anglesey in North Wales, at a time when folk magic and spirit work were still actively practiced. She has lived in Devon in the South West of England for many years, where she works with a coven of like-minded people. She learnt traditional magic from the late Cecil Williamson and she founded the Friends of the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft. She regularly speaks at witchcraft and Pagan events, and writes, teaches, and conducts workshops on all aspects of witchcraft. A new revised and illustrated edition of Levannah’s book, A Witch’s Mirror (originally published in 2013) was published in 2021 by The Universe Machine, and her next book is nearing completion.
“Sitting Out,” FG8
Muz Murray is the founder of Gandalf’s Garden, a mystical center and magazine in 1960s London. After later wandering all India as a sadhu, Muz returned to London to co-found the Open Centre. For the last half-century he has taught Mantra and Advaita Vedanta workshops in many countries around the world, earning him the honorific “the Indiana Jones of Yoga.” Muz is the author of five spiritual books and an esoteric fantasy.
“Doing God a Favour,” FG6
Ray Nelson is a science-fiction author and cartoonist who began his ongoing career in the 1940s. He published his first novel, The Ganymede Takeover, with Philip K. Dick in 1967, and his short story “8 O’Clock in the Morning” was made into the paranoid cult classic They Live, directed by John Carpenter. Nelson is also the inventor of the propeller beanie.
“Alice,” FG5
Martin Newell is an English pop musician, writer, and performer. He is also known by the name Cleaners from Venus. His most famous solo record is The Greatest Living Englishman. Having been poet-in-residence for one or other British national newspaper for nearly three decades he’s also Britain’s most published living poet. He lives in Essex, where he divides his time.
“Cutting Hedge,” FG5
“The Old Woods,” FG5
George Nikolopoulos is a member of Codex Writers’ Group. His stories have been published in over sixty magazines and anthologies including Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Factor Four, Dream Forge, Best Vegan SFF, and The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF. He lives in Athens, Greece, and when not writing he is, among other things, an actor, an engineer, and a father.
"Memoirs of a One-Time Dragon Slayer’s Apprentice,” TFG1
Spencer Nitkey is a writer, researcher, and educator living in New Jersey. His writing has appeared in Apex Magazine, Fusion Fragment, Apparition Lit, and elsewhere.
"Beginnings,” TFG2
Open Sea is a creative studio based in Brooklyn that specializes in fine stationery and paper goods. The company was established in 2015 by Melissa Constandse. Open Sea's paper goods line is inspired by the occult, the Victorian era, and all manner of esoteric traditions, as well as naturalist art and the treasures of the plant and animal kingdom. Each piece is meticulously designed with purpose and intention as a tribute to long lost traditions and to the beauty and wonder of the natural world.
Illustration and design, TFG1
Spencer Orey graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2021. He has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and studies magic, spirituality, and media dreamworlds. He grew up in dry New Mexico and California but now lives in rainy Denmark, where he drives his kids around in a cargo bike and drinks too much specialty coffee.
“Magical Vizard for the Sad Wizard,” TFG2
Lauren Parker is a writer and visual artist in Oakland, California. She’s been published in Daughters of Babylon, The Fairy Tale Magazine, The Racket, Xtra Magazine, Catapult, Oh Reader, and Autostraddle.
“P.O.V. of the Tarot Cards You Have Asked the Same Question Four Times,” TFG2
Cassandra Solon Parry lives by the River Lea in London, where she is currently working on a collection of original fairy tales. She releases music under the guise of her alter ego Moth Rah, and performs with the band Dream Giant.
"The Bone-Handled Walking Stick," TFG1
“Hazel Wood,” FG8
Kelly Patton is a fine artist and illustrator who conjures childhood mischief and wonder to inspire creativity, self care, and appreciation of nature. She is the creator of the Secret Woods oracle deck and other magical books.
Illustration, Enchantment Dismantled, FG1202
“Little Black Cat,” FG6
M. Kelly Peach is a husband, father of four adult children, and grandfather of three grandsons. He enjoys reading, writing, collecting books, baking, and camping. His works have been published in Mad Scientist Journal, Entropy, Cheapjack Pulp, Unsung Stories, and Bloody Red Nose: 15 Fears of a Clown.
"Write While You May," TFG1
"For Ariana: Dance While You May," TFG1
Sigurd Persson is an artist and slow-fashion designer based out of southern Sweden and the Pacific Northwest. While turning over old practices, she tells of the women who lived before her and reminds us of folk traditions, ritual, and reverence for the earth.
Cover illustration, FG8
John Polselli is a poet in Henderson, Nevada.
“The Warlock’s Rubric,” FG2
Ronnie Angel Pope is a writer based between the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
"Sofia Rising," TFG1
Andrew M. Reichart lives in California with his wife and a couple of dogs. His most recent novel is Insurgent Otherworld, co-written with Nick Walker. Other works include the novel Wallflower Assassin, available from Argawarga Press in an illustrated second edition.
“On Skepticism,” FG4
Reviewer, FG4, FG6
"Akaz Maxo’s Familiars," TFG1
Timothy Renner makes strange illustrations, plays strange music, writes books about strange things, and co-hosts a podcast covering all manner of strangeness. His first book is called Beyond the Seventh Gate, his band is called Stone Breath, and the podcast is called Strange Familiars.
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Cover illustration, FG3
Cover illustration, FG4
Illustration, “England, My Lionheart,” FG4
Illustration, The Place of the Song-Dream, FG1103
“The Witch Tree,” FG5
Miranda Rey is the alter ego of Susan Redington Bobby. She is a writer of fairy tales and myths, a knitter and stitcher, and a mother of many magical cats in this world and the next. She is currently working on The Transformation Trilogy, a re-imagination of Ariadne’s myth.
"The Gate and the Key," TFG1
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a meditation master, teacher, and artist. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, the Shambhala Training program, and an association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of several books including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior and Cutting through Spiritual Materialism. Trungpa is credited with coining the term “crazy wisdom,” and his hedonistic approach to spirituality made him a controversial figure for much of his short life.
“On the Meaning of Life,” FG4
Christina Rosso is a writer and bookstore owner living in South Philadelphia with her bearded husband and two rescue pups. Her debut collection, She Is a Beast, is available now from APEP Publications. Her writing has been featured in FIVE: 2: ONE Magazine, Digging Through the Fat, Ellipsis Zine, and elsewhere.
"Siren Song," TFG1
Adrienne Rozzi is an illustrator, printmaker, art historian, and hedge witch based in western Pennsylvania. She is the owner and creative force behind Poison Apple Printshop, a small one-woman printery showcasing the old-world nostalgia of Rozzi’s immersive illustrations. Through themes of historical witchcraft, alchemy, and folk magic, her artwork focuses on transcribing a wide range of arcane knowledge and preserving the mystic sacredness inherent in such understandings.
Illustration, “Gettin’ On Okay,” FG4
Illustration, “Methods of the Skryer,” FG5
Illustration, “The Art of Magic,” FG6
Illustration, The Riddle of the Sphinx, FG1302
Edwin Sams’ award-winning fiction has been published in regional and national publications. In October 2021, Pigeon Review published his story “The Mad Spells of Miss Wycherly,” and in 2012 Main Street Rag published his novella Wicked Hill. Every year at Halloween he recites “The Raven” at Poe Fest, San Jose State University’s celebration of Edgar Allan Poe.
"Shuis Slo Slumus Sheen," TFG1
“The Fairy Cup,” TFG2
“Selena Moor,” TFG2
Lorraine Schein is a New York writer. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, VICE Terraform, We’Moon Calendar, Sagewoman, Witches & Pagans, Wild Musette Journal, and Little Blue Marble, as well as in the anthologies Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath and Spectral Lines: Poems About Scientists. She is the author of the poetry book The Futurist’s Mistress.
"The Forest Bride," TFG1
Daniel A. Schulke is an herbalist and writer on subjects of comparative religion, folklore, and ethnobotany. He is a founding publisher of Three Hands Press and is the author of Veneficium: Magic, Witchcraft, and the Poison Path.
“Where Wood Meets Flesh,” FG2
“Remembering Michael Howard,” FG3
Allyson Shaw lives on the northeast coast of Scotland, where she catalogues folk monuments to Scottish witches. She is a poet by vocation and a metalsmith by trade.
"Selchie," TFG1
Kim Schwenk is a rare book cataloger at UC San Diego, Special Collections & Archives Library, and an antiquarian bookseller with Lux Mentis, Booksellers, with a specialization in American and European witchcraft history, history of early printed occult texts, and bibliographic studies of early magical curses using plants and objects. She is in the process of publishing a book on the materiality of magic and book ownership, otherwise known as “hex libris.”
Reviewer, FG8
Freddie Silva, Jr. has a passion for history, religion, and mythology and strives to use elements from these interests in his writing. He has published stories in a variety of venues including: Triangulation, The Alchemist Review, Short and Twisted Christmas Tales, and Broadswords and Blasters.
"Beware the Aes Sídhe," TFG1
Glyn Smyth is an illustrator, designer and printmaker from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work is chiefly informed by interests within the fields of folklore, myth, and magick. His artwork has been featured in several books on illustration as well as on record covers and posters and in various art, music, and esoteric journals. He has exhibited and sold prints in the UK, Ireland, Europe, and the United States.
Cover illustration, FG5
Rima Staines is an artist living in Dartmoor, England. She is a founder, with her husband Tom Hirons, of Hedgespoken, a travelling off-grid storytelling theatre based on the back of a vintage lorry.
“Rise & Root,” FG1
Tim Stevens’ fiction can be found in Tales to Terrify and in Analog Science Fiction.
“Willowborn,” TFG2
Laren Stover writes fiction, nonfiction, plays, poetry, and fairy tales and has developed much of her work at Naked Angels Theatre in New York. She is the author of Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge, The Bombshell Manual of Style, and Pluto, Animal Lover. A melancholy connoisseur with insights into faerie, fragrance, unicorns, werewolves, and Krampus, she has written for The Paris Review Daily, L’Officiel, The New York Times, New York Observer, Guernica, and Bomb. She is a fellow of Yaddo and Hawthornden and lives in the West Village.
“The Call of the Wild,” FG8
Júlia Carreras Tort is a researcher, practitioner, and teacher of Pyrenean Metzineria (poison making) and Bruixeria (witchcraft or hedge-riding) who graduated in English studies and linguistics with the University of Barcelona. With her partner Hector, she is the co-founder and co-owner of Occvlta, an endeavor focused on crafting high-quality herbal products and artifacts since 2013, as well as contributing to the divulgation of witchcraft and occult herbalism among the general public through courses and collaborations with museums. She currently resides in the Pyrenees of Spain.
“Henbane Seeds Five in the Snath of a Scythe,” FG8
Benjamin A. Vierling is a California-based painter and illustrator working in traditional media. His imagery has embellished publications by Three Hands Press, Ouroboros Press, and Red Wheel Weiser Books. He has exhibited at the 2011 and 2016 Esoteric Book Conferences, and lectured at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, where a Decennary Retrospective of his work was shown in 2014.
Illustration, “Where Wood Meets Flesh,” FG2
Cover illustration, FG7
Anthony Walent is a writer living in Tucson, Arizona, and the publisher of the journal Communicating Vessels.
“Blindfolded & Straying,” FG3
Nathaniel Winter-Hébert is a Canadian artist whose work is familiar to readers of the British zines Hellebore and The Ghastling.
Illustration and Design, A Purple Thread, PPE2001
Eldred Hieronymus Wormwood is a folklorist, antiquarian, folkwitch, and book collector living in London. He is the editor of The Skeptical Occultist, proprietor of Alkahest Press, and author of the book Wyrdwood: Essays Toward an Understanding of the Folkwitch. When not haunting the shelves of various bookshops and private libraries, he can be found digging among ruins for clues to mankind’s forgotten past.
“The Confederacy of the Green Door,” FG6
Kelsey Yandura is a poet and writer based in Brooklyn. She dabbles across form and genre, but always seems to make her way back to folk and fairy tales. Will reliably gasp upon seeing any rendering of the moon.
“The Heroine’s Journey,” FG7
“A Stone Called Black,” TFG2
Daniel Yates is a photographer, theologian, and folklorist residing in the valleys of Lancashire. His work has been featured in journals including the third volume of Wyrd as well as Pillars: Circling the Compass. Yates’ images can also be seen in the upcoming titles Witch-Ikon, from Three Hands Press, and Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond, from Atramentous Press. His own photographic book, Arcanum, is currently available from Anathema Publishing, with other personal and collaborative works currently unfolding.
“The Written Word Where the Veil is Thin,” FG7
Aidan Yetman-Michaelson is an illustrator, print maker, and game master from Los Angeles, currently based in Chicago. His work for Vinyl Moon and Current Affairs has been featured in Communication Arts and displayed at the Society of Illustrators in New York City.
Illustration, “The Magic Quest,” FG8