Elizabethan Flower Magic: Oberon’s Trick in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”—Oberon...
Nine Types of Ice
Garden Ice
I was alone when the cold began. Ice fell onto the gar-den like rain, only it was a pale green, so pale you...
Cordelia, or the Price of Salt
Father loved me better than my sisters. That sounds desirable, yes? To be best loved, to be the one desired?
The dresses he gave me were...
The Witch’s Secret
Feature Image: Study for Maidens Picking Flowers by the Stream (1911),
by John William Waterhouse
Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
There was something strange about the cottage at...
An Excerpt From Signe Pike’s The Lost Queen
Photography by Natalia Le Fay Follow Natalia Le Fay on Instagram @natalia_lefay.
The Lost Queen by Simon & Schuster was published in September, 2018. Read...
Creatures of the Snow
Art by Sigrid Rødli
The snow and ice bring with it a pantheon of winter spirits that range from the benevolent to the purely evil...
Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...
Spring has its freshness and promise, summer gets all that lush light, and winter brings cozy idle hours—but autumn is really the most creative...
Night Magic: Interview with Author Leigh Ann Henion
Featured Image:
From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
The Night-Blowing Cereus (1807), by Robert Dunkarton
When we saw that New York Times best-selling writer Leigh...
Elder Mother
Grandmother Elder, that’s what they call me.
They can’t seem to agree if I am a tree or a shrub, which is fitting really—I’ve always...
Amulet
In the village where they lived everyone knew there was only one way for whomever went to meet the beast in the woods to...