Edited by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

The Storytelling Issue, containing an editorial introduction and the following articles…

• Into the Dark Woods: Elizabeth Dearnley revives the spell that dark fantasy cast over the cultural imagination of the 1980s.

• The Great English Rebel: His name evokes a rougher ecology, a ritual landscape, and an egalitarian England that survived the Conquest. John Callow reflects on the enduring appeal of Robin Hood, the archetypal English rebel.

• Gallery / Those Who Built This Land: A view of some of the legendary architects of the landscape of Britain and Ireland.

• Tales of Tam Lin: Nick Freeman shows how the spellbinding story of the Fairy Queen and her mortal lover continues to be reinterpreted.

• A Very English Tale of Magic: John Reppion unravels the magic embedded into the English landscape in Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

• Stone as Storyteller: Pen Foreman on archaeology and Alan Garner, the master of revealing the time-deep, story-rich nature of places and objects.

• Rewriting the Landscape: Frazer Lee argues that the folkloresque mythmaking we conjure out of violent landscapes makes for a powerful and enduring form of protest.

• The Power of Stories: We talk to Neil Philip, Lisa Schneidau, and Marina Warner to reflect on the magical act of storytelling.  

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud to carry this twelfth issue of Hellebore. These copies are in new condition.

96-page perfectbound pamphlet with black-and-white and tinted illustrations and photographs throughout. With design by Nathaniel Winter-Hébert and a cover by Courtney Brook (Light Witch).