Author: Edward Parnell

Edward Parnell is a graduate of the prestigious MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. His prize-winning, gothic-tinged debut novel The Listeners (winner of the 2014 Rethink New Novels Competition) is set in rural Norfolk at the beginning of WWII – and local nature, folklore and superstitions feature heavily throughout. For more information visit his website at: http://www.edwardparnell.com

Ghostland: Arthur Machen, King Arthur and ‘Goblin City’

October 17, 2019 by Edward Parnell

Caerleon: The location is steeped in history and archaeology with its impressive Roman ruins, and its later associations – it’s the site where Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century chronicle of British monarchs, Historia regum Britanniae, places the court of King Arthur, and where, some 350 years on, Thomas Malory staged the legendary figure’s coronation in Le Morte D’Arthur.

Redwings and Bramblings: A Gap in the Lore of Our Winter Migrant Birds

January 5, 2017 by Edward Parnell

Each autumn thousands of migrant redwings, fieldfares and bramblings visit the UK from their Scandinavian breeding grounds

The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland

August 25, 2016 by Edward Parnell

A couple of month’s ago I happened upon a copy of A Dictionary of British Folk-Lore by Alice Gomme, a classic work on childlore. A couple of month’s ago I was lucky enough to find a slightly worn-looking antiquarian book in one of my local charity shops. As I have an interest in folklore, the […]