A newsletter presenting ghost stories, folklore, true crime and obscure history as narrated tales in graphic novel format. Issues are numbered episodes, each retelling a single story such as the ketchup-as-medicine episode, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre or a haunted Ohio cemetery.
Website: https://ourhauntedtales.ghost.io/
Martin Shaw shares original folk tales, mythic storytelling and personal road reflections alongside audio and event announcements. Readers get literary retellings rooted in Devon and Dartmoor folklore and glimpses of a working storyteller's life.
Long-form essays that read video games through folklore, medieval art, mythology, cosmology and the occult. Readers get contextual criticism that ties specific games to their historical and cultural sources.
A daily pilgrim's journal written from the Hutsul Carpathians in Ukraine, mixing personal reflection, mountain landscape and local folk custom. Readers get short, contemplative entries that tie the seasons, the old and new church calendars and village lore to the writer's walk.
Long-form literary analysis of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books and CD Projekt Red's games, drawing on Arthurian legend, the Grail myth and folklore. Issues include structured essays on characters like Ciri and Avallac'h, narrative frames, and cut content from The Witcher 3.
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