The Golden Goose
There may be as many kinds of storyteller are there are stories.
We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
The new issue of Unsettling Wonder ‘Why Would Anyone Enchant That?’ is now available. A little girl accidentally turns the sky to lemonade. A fragile witch tries to make a child out of wood. An armchair…Continue Reading
Exciting news for all Unsettling Wonder readers. Now you can get all three issues of Unsettling Wonder Vol. 1, bound in a single cover. Bringing together, work by Peter J. Herron, Laura Rae, Katherine Langrish, Lisa Tuttle,…Continue Reading
You can’t spend much time around Unsettling Wonder without meeting Laura Rae. Her strange, sensitive artwork graces a lot of what we do around here. That’s her rabbit and wolf (or is it wolf and rabbit?)…Continue Reading
A guest post by Susan Price The first story in my new e-book collection of folk-legends, Heads and Tales, is ‘The Boy and the Blacksmiths’. In short, the story is of a blacksmith challenged to…Continue Reading
A Guest Post by Susan Price I have read and loved folklore since a child, and was well aware that the severed head has a special significance in Celtic-Nordic folklore. Two examples are the severed…Continue Reading