Magazine of culture, traditional studies, anthropology of the sacred, history of religions, folklore, esotericism, literature of the fantastic. Curated by Marco Maculotti.
AXIS MUNDI N.1 / YEAR I, Lammas - Summer 2021, "FOLK HORROR"
33,00 €
A4 SIZE (29,7 X 21 CM)
HARD COVER 2,5 MM
MATT COATED PAPER 130 G
108 PAGES - 1⁄3 COLOURED
LIMITED EDITION
333 HAND NUMBERED COPIES
BOOKMARK
ISBN: 978-88-946486-0-7
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.
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the level of the contents, which will collect both material previously published on the site (and possibly revised) and unpublished contributions .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 our local panorama but even in the international one.
The Folk Horror, Spaghetti & Popcorn dossier will also be unreleased, 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 and inventor of the so-called "Gotico Padano", Pupi Avati, released us a few months ago, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of the film L 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 and changeling) and a review by Lorenzo Pennacchi on the book Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective (Marco Maculotti, Mimesis 2021).
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
. 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
. Hereditary: the ghostly legacy of Montague
by MARCO MACULOTTI
. Picnic at Hangin 'Rock: an Apollonian allegory
by MARCO MACULOTTI
. 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
. Folk Horror, Spaghetti & Popcorn: a selection of 18 Italian films
by MARCO MACULOTTI
. 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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