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 29, 2026

The Century Walk of the Green Man

An account of the Green Man, Britain's foliate-headed spirit of the greenwood, and the local legend of his once-a-century Greenwalk through orchard, field and oak.

Sep 28, 2026

The Woman Who Turns Away

A journal account of the Huldra, the hidden forest woman of Norwegian and Swedish tradition, and the herders and hunters who claimed to have loved her.

Sep 22, 2026

The Herds That Answer to No One

A look at Flidais, the Irish goddess who is said to herd and protect the wild deer of the forest, and at the old tale of the cattle raid that carries her name.

Sep 16, 2026

The Silence of the Stillhart

A record of hill-country testimony concerning the Stillhart, a stag so still that trees root in its antlers, and of the silence it lays upon those who see it.

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.

Aug 31, 2026

An account of the pukwudgie, the small and sharp-tempered woodland spirits of Wampanoag and Algonquian tradition, and the wary respect they still command in the pine barrens of southeastern Massachusetts.

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 22, 2026

The Fox Who Outwitted the Court

A journal entry tracing Reynard the Fox through the medieval beast-epics of France, Flanders and Germany, and asking why a liar became the most beloved animal in European letters.

Aug 12, 2026

The Tree That Watches Back

A journal account of the iroko, the great West African hardwood said to house a watchful spirit, and the offerings still left at its roots by those who must fell or pass beneath it.

Aug 3, 2026

The Face That Grows Leaves

A record of the foliate heads carved into English and Welsh churches, and the strange, still-unsettled question of what — or who — they were made to represent.

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.