Edited by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo

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

• The Realm of Ancient Terrors: Gabriel Moshenska on how folk narratives about the underground have come to define ideas of archaeologists in popular fiction.

• The God of the Great Deep: Kay Soar reveals how an obscure Romano-Celtic deity came to embody the horror of deep time in the works of Welsh author Arthur Machen. With an opening illustration by Isa Bancewicz.

• Gallery / Buried Traumas: David Evans-Powell analyses four folk horror and urban wyrd films where the unearthing of a past trauma threatens the present and impedes any progression towards the future.

• The Cursed Field: Peter Hewitt on how an ancient necropolis on the north coast of Cornwall became the setting for a narrative of hauntings, curses, and an Indian goddess-turned-saviour.

• The Witches of Florence: J. Locksley travels to fin-de-siècle Florence to uncover the influence of the intriguing folklorist Roma Lister on modern British witchcraft.

• The Hexham Mystery: The discovery of two carved heads in a Northumberland back garden sparked a folk horror saga that still haunts our nightmares. Kenneth Brophy follows the track of the Hexham Heads.

• The Abyss of All Being: Aleco Julius on how the discovery of deep time engendered modern horrors.

• Stones of Initiation: Amara Thornton investigates how enslaved people in the Caribbean incorporated thunderstones they unearthed into Obeah practice.

• The Demon-Haunted House: Subhadra Das reflects on how archaeology, museums, and colonialism make people disappear.

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

92-page perfectbound pamphlet with black-and-white and tinted illustrations and photographs throughout. With design by Nathaniel Winter-Hébert and a cover by Courtney Brooke.