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Religion for Breakfast

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

From writer/director/co-producer Kier-La Janisse comes "a seductive mega-text" (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror, featuring clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and…

Imaginary Worlds: Searching for Cryptids

When I was growing up, Bigfoot appeared regularly on the covers of supermarket tabloids, so I assumed he was a joke. But I’ve discovered that he’s part of a larger…

Thread

Emily Mitchell retells the myth of Arachne, a simple peasant whose skill at weaving rivals that of the goddess of weaving herself. Unfortunately, possessing such incredible talent doesn’t work out…

Godskin

By: CL Hellisen

Fréwaka

Nursing student Shoo takes a placement in a remote Irish village to care for Peig a reclusive, elderly woman who lives in fear, haunted by her experiences in a Catholic…

Antelope Woman

by Louise Erdrich

Natalie Haynes on Medusa

the author of a fantastic book, Stone Blind, which retells the story of the gorgon Medusa, who, originally in mythology, was cursed by Athena who turned her hair into snakes…

Eyes Wide Open

All the Violet Tiaras – Jean Menzies

For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is a lot more complicated than…