Hellebore #4: The Yuletide Special

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A5 magazine, 92 pages - our biggest issue yet! Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. Midwinter. The shortest day, the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun. It is a time of darkness, but also of hope and celebration. For this Midwinter special we’ve gathered stories to help us through the darkest months: ancient legends that may still be re-enacted,...

Hellebore #5: The Unearthing Issue

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A5 magazine, 84 pages. Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. For the ancients, the subterranean world was the realm of the dead; in the Medieval era it became the abode of demons. With earth we cover our dead. Embedded in our psyche is the idea that what has been buried ought not to return—at least not to this world. From...

Hellebore #6: The Summoning Issue

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A5 magazine, 92 pages. Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. From the Witch of Endor to Aleister Crowley, from the Satanic feminism of the suffragette era through to the current occult revival, The Summoning Issue delves into the history of witchcraft, magic, and the occult to analyse the impulses behind acts of conjuration: the thirst for forbidden knowledge, the...

Hellebore #7: The Ritual Issue

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A5 magazine, 92 pages. Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. Mummers with ill intentions, sacrificial May Queens, ecstatic trances. Folk horror is consistently fascinated by the power of ritual. In this issue we question the subgenre’s distrust of communal expression while we celebrate communities and their power to re-enchant. We travel through the isles following parades of ancient antlers, clashing...

Hellebore #8: The Unveiling Issue

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A5 magazine, 88 pages.Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. The image of the veiled feminine figure— Isis, Artemis of Ephesus, Calypso— has haunted Western culture since Antiquity. The metaphor of the veil has come to represent various unknowns—the mystery of existence, the mystery of death, the secrets of Nature—, while its unveiling has been associated with the visionary experience...

Hellebore #9: The Old Ways Issue

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A5 magazine, 88 pages.Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. 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,...