Winter's Gibbet, on Steng Cross, in Elsdon, Northumberland, remains a popular venue for a day's excursion. Named after one William Winter, hanged at Newcastle's Westgate in 1792 for murder and whose body was subsequently displayed as a warning to all Steng Cross, the current gibbet is the latest in a long line of wooden replacements.… Continue reading Raise The Horns For Halloween / A Day Out At The Gallows
The skull art work of Petra Shara Stoor - a Finnish artist based in Sweden - is quite unlike anything I’ve ever come across before. I contacted her moments after stumbling across her Facebook page, and to my absolute delight, we’ve put together an interview that will hopefully work as an introduction to her unique… Continue reading An Interview With Petra Shara Stoor Of Skulls & Bones Artwork
Can you please talk a little about how Nordland started? Was is something that you had intended to do for quite some time, and were just waiting for the right moment, or was it more of a snap idea and decision? I think it was a combination of certain things really. I had some ideas… Continue reading Interview : Vorh Of Nordland
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 