HELLEBORE is a collection of writings and essays devoted to British folk horror and the themes that inspire it: folklore, myth, history, archaeology, psychogeography, witches, and the occult.

In This Issue - Beltane 2022

• Megaliths from outer space
  
• Strange journeys
• The Return of Ley Lines

In an essay written years after The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame referred to the “country of the mind”, a place to be found during his long, solitary walks in the countryside where he would live “high adventures”. For Grahame, and for many others before and after him, landscape doesn’t have merely a physical dimension.

In our perceptions of landscapes we are not only informed by our senses, our knowledge, and our experience, but also by something ineffable—a link between our imagination, our inner life, and something that transcends us.

The Old Ways Issue celebrates landscapes, the way we navigate them, and the stories we tell about them. Pilgrimages and rituals of crossings, tales of malevolent lights luring travellers off the path, patterns in the landscape, invisible lines of force, the mystery of megaliths. In these pages we explore the sea, the marshland, rivers and fields, stone circles, the moors, and the enigma of outer space to unearth the stories that fascinate us and to acknowledge how they’ve shaped us.

Hellebore Plants

Hellebore is a poisonous plant that has the power of altering perception, thought to be one of the main ingredients for the witches' flying ointment. Associated with the water element, it is known for opening up portals to the underworld and the subconscious.

About This Zine

• A5 magazine, approx. 92 pages.
• Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding.
• Edited by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo.