Finally, in its sixth year of activity as a digital magazine, AXIS MUNDI arrives in print format! It will not be a magazine along the lines of the site, but a series of collectible thematic books, embellished with an attractive graphic layout up to the level of the contents, which will collect both material previously published on the site (and possibly revised) and unpublished contributions .

To do full justice to the launch of the paper publications of the newborn AXIS MUNDI EDIZIONI, we opted for the best, aware of the refined tastes of our audience: hardcover cardboard, 108 pages of which 1/3 in color in A4 format, matt coated paper 130 g. make this publication, which comes out in a limited edition of 333 hand-numbered copies at the Kalends of August (which emblematically coincide with the Celtic festival of LAMMAS, or the "first harvest"), a gem that cannot be missing in the bookstores of all of you who in recent years you have followed us with curiosity and fidelity.

In NUMBER 1 of this series of thematic books we wanted to group our best articles concerning the so-called "FOLK HORROR" cultural current, from late 800th century literature (Arthur Machen, Montague Rhodes James, Jonas Lie) to cinema (The Wicker Man, Midsommar, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Penda's Fen, etc). In this register you will also find the unpublished article, given to us by Professor Massimo Centini, on the true story of the famous "Blair Witch", made famous by the film The Blair Witch Project: an anthropological study that is unique not only in the Italian panorama but even in the international one.

The dossier will also be unpublished Folk Horror, Spaghetti & Porcorn, in which we have selected 18 pivotal Italian films, released between the 60s and today. which unquestionably have elements of "folk horror". And, in this regard, on our pages you can also read a historic interview that the great director, inventor of the so-called "Gotico Padano", Pupi Avati, gave us a few months ago, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the film's release in theaters. The arcane charmer. The author Tommaso de Brabant has seized the ball to outline a real retrospective on Avati's “black” cinema, which follows the actual interview.

Among other contributions, a study by Massimo Palmesano on the fantastic flights of the Sicilian witches of Alicudi, a study by Giuditta Failli on the incidence of the Marvelous and the Macabre in the medieval imagination, one by Marco Maculotti on Celtic "horror folklore" (kidnappings of fairies e changing) and a review by Lorenzo Pennacchi on the book Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective (Marco Maculotti, Mimesis 2021).

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