[AM001] AXIS MUNDI N.1 / YEAR I, Lammas – Summer 2021, “FOLK HORROR”

Description

Sacrifices and rebirths, sowing and harvests, Wicker Men and May Queens. Carnival sacrifices of the Bear-Man, pagan communal geometries, daimonic swans, messengers from Borea's afterlife. Missing time, overcoming the Veil through the narrow passage, evasion from linear and devouring time.

Arthur Machen's hills, nostalgia and sabbatical orgies; the obsessive representations of the devils on medieval miniatures and the anguish of sin, strictly inherent to the mindset of Victorian England, by Montague Rhodes James. Jonas Lie, the witchcraft of the Finns and the multiform horror beneath the North Seas.

Spirit abductions at Fairyland, Changeling and blood renewal. Flying witches, lysergic witches, cinematic witches. Armies of souls that advance among the branches of the trees or behind the clouds, in the nights of full flood.

Carcosa, the King in Yellow and the black stars. The King who was, is and always will be hides hidden in the Hollow Earth, and the flame of its silent followers flickers in the swamp. Fire and mud. Ecstasy and terror.

 

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INDEX:

The Wicker Man: from folklore to folk horror
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Terror and ecstasy. Arthur Machen: The Hill of Dreams
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Penda's Fen: the sacred daimon of ungovernability
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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The supernatural horror of Montague Rhodes James
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Hereditary: the ghostly legacy of Montague
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Picnic at Hangin 'Rock: an Apollonian allegory
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Midsummer: the coronation of Beauty and the expulsion of the Beast
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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The waves of fate. Jonas Lie: Weird Tales from Northern Seas
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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The kidnappings of the Fairies, Changeling and the renewal of the lineage
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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Folk Horror, Spaghetti & Popcorn: a selection of 18 Italian films
by MARCO MACULOTTI
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The Blair Witch. Blair's witch, between history and myth
by MASSIMO CENTINI
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The witches of Alicudi: notes of Aeolian folklore
by MASSIMILIANO PALMESANO
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The Marvelous in the Middle Ages and the apparitions ofexercitum mortuorum
by GIUDITTA FAILLI
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25 years of Arcane charmer: conversation with Pupi Avati
by TOMMASO DE BRABANT
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In the dark meanders of Carcosa (review by Carcosa unveiled)
by LORENZO PENNACCHI
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