Where the Map Ends

Oct 1, 2026

The Keeper of Unwalked Roads

A journal account of the Lantern Man, the Dartmoor light said to lead travellers off finished roads and onto ones that never were, at a cost few agree on.

Sep 21, 2026

The Night the Black Horse Comes

A look at the púca, the shapeshifting night spirit of Irish and wider Celtic folklore, and the blackberry and harvest lore still tied to its name.

Sep 15, 2026

When the Hunt Rides Overhead

A survey of the Wild Hunt, the storm-borne procession of masked riders and howling hounds that recurs across European folklore as a warning to those still walking the roads below.

Sep 12, 2026

The Laughter on the Ridge

A journal entry on the tengu, the long-nosed mountain spirits of Japan, recorded among the cedars of Mount Kurama where they are said to still watch the paths after dark.

Sep 5, 2026

The Worm in the Mound

A journal entry on the wyrm, the serpent-dragon of Norse and British tradition that coils through barrows, rivers and the roots of the world tree, always keeping close to buried gold.

Aug 26, 2026

Lykos and the Hollow Wood

A journal entry on Lykos, the guardian wolf said to haunt the last old-growth remnants of the English wildwood, and the folk memory that keeps him there long after real wolves were gone.

Aug 16, 2026

The Bells Under Dunwich

A record of Dunwich, the medieval Suffolk port swallowed by the sea, and the enduring claim that its church bells can still be heard tolling beneath the waves during storms.

Aug 15, 2026

The Bird That Watches the Fall

A journal entry on the raven as a death-omen in British and Celtic tradition, from the ravens kept at the Tower of London to the corpse-bird of the Welsh Marches and the war-goddesses who wore black feathers over the battlefield.

Jul 28, 2026

The Nine-Tailed Fires

A visit to the vermillion gates of Fushimi Inari leads into the older, wilder lore of the kitsune: the fox spirit whose age is counted in tails and whose lanterns still walk the mountain roads at night.

Jul 28, 2026

Where the Antlers Keep Watch

A journey from a weathered Gallo-Roman pillar in Paris to the tree lines of Britain, tracing the scattered evidence for Cernunnos, the antlered god who guards the border between the human world and the wild.