‘Terra Incognita’: Tracing Literary Occult Pathways in North London

Woman in forest

North London has captured the imagination of gothic writers through the ages, exploring both sides of the region’s possibly: one a promise, one a threat.

Headless Horsemen and Ghostly Lights: The Top 5 Texas Urban Legends

Ranch with Texas Lone Star painted on the site

Nowhere else on the planet in the last three hundred years has there been a pioneer narrative quite like the legends and myths of the American Frontier.

Italian Folklore: The Devil’s Column, at the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio

The body of Ambrose (with white vestments) in the crypt of Sant'Ambrogio basilica.

The Devil’s Column (Colonna del Diavolo), in Milan is the focus of one of Milan’s oldest and most beloved legends …

Albion’s Glorious Ile: William Hole and the Strangest Maps of Britain Ever Made

Map of Cambridgeshire from Poly-Olbion, Part Two, 1622. ©Flash of Splendour Arts

In the early 17th century, the celebrated London engraver William Hole created some of the strangest maps of Britain ever commissioned to illustrate Poly-Olbion, a vast 15,000-line topographical poem by Michael Dayton (1563-1631).

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