Sometimes, mugs come along which scream to be bought, and scream even louder to be filled with scalding hot beverages. This is one such mug. Nicole Pangas Ceramics has found the way to my heart through stonewear. This colossal cup can hold nearly 500 ml and was made using a high fire white stoneware… Continue reading I’ll Take It Black
One day, in the not too distant future, I will have a house which will be famed for its weirdness. It will be a house people in the local supermarket will talk about under their breaths, as they wait at the meat counter for their ham to be sliced. It will be the kind of… Continue reading Creepified Taxidermy
The most perfect accessory for any phantom. Ghost Ring by Welfe.
Taxidermy has been something that has fascinated me since childhood, and when I stumbled across anthropomorphic taxidermy I felt an almost overwhelming urge to study the field, and put my dark mind to work. Anthropomorphic taxidermy is what inspired artist and sculptor Thomas Grünfeld to bring two animals together to make an entirely new specimen.… Continue reading Bat Fawn & Friends
Poster for Wolves In The Throne Room "Celestite" Tour (2014) by Stag & Serpent.
If you have been following this blog since the beginning, you will have seen the interview I conducted with the creators of Kin Fables. Don't worry if you missed it though, you can read it here. Go there it in a minute however. Read while you are listening to the new Kinn EP.
‘There is something unnerving about people who can’t be located dead or alive. They upset our sense of space – surely the missing ones have to be somewhere, but where?’ – Margaret Atwood. Whenever I visit the library, I make a beeline for the travel section, and crouch down to inspect the lowest… Continue reading A Review Of Frozen In Time: The Fate Of The Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie & John Geiger
‘Up here a man becomes aware of things that he can’t perceive further south.’ I read most of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, but got bored after a while. The series started off great, but then they got a bit, well, ugh. I reckon that’s why it’s taken me a while to pick this… Continue reading A Review of Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 