music and tales
As we wait excitedly for the release of Fairy Tale For Homeless Fairies, due out tomorrow, let’s visit one of the most famous Fairy photograph cases, The Cottingley Fairies, which was enormoualy controversial in its day and championed by none […]
We are not concerned with modern depictions of faery things. Some of it is quite nice and lovely, a few things amazing and most, for my tastes, cheesy and droll. However it was in the Victorian era that fairy painting […]
The caves became more convoluted, cluttered with all sizes and manners of pipes, while the ground beneath them was growing muddier and stickier. Trickles of thick, congealed, psychedelic liquid ran across the floor, and Deacon warned her emphatically not to […]
They were now in a new cavern of dark, almost black, crinkled rock, the floor a thick, soft dirt. Small, glowing snowflakes of light drifted down around them, illuminating the cavern. A series of metallic clanging sounds echoed throughout the […]
Having no choice really, but to trust the mouse, she made her way carefully down the black, cold, stone corridors, feeling the wall as she walked, and following the mouse’s tiny voice as he kept her abreast of turns, gaps, […]
When Lora awoke in the underground cavern to find everything, walls and all, in the exact opposite configuration as when she had laid down to sleep, the full enormity of the non-reality of her situation bore down upon her. She […]
In 1869, Alfred Beach began construction of an underground pneumatic subway; a tube containing commuters that would be propelled by the air pressure generated by giant fans. His endeavor was challenged at every turn by then mayor of New Albion, […]
Lora giggled. It began deep within her chest and slowly quivered its way up towards her throat as she closed her eyes and desperately tried to stop it. It was happening frequently now, and she feared a moment was coming […]
Phookas (or Puca, Puka, or Pooka) are one of the nastiest and feared of the Fae. It’s a shape shifting trickster, with a wild and potentially malevolent sense of humor who likes toying with humans but who does not possess human empathy […]
The Fairies Up the airy mountain Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl’s feather. Down along the rocky shore Some […]