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The Burnt Offering
American composer Laurie Spiegel seated at several synthesizers and computers in her electronic music studio.

The Kosmische Cosmos

By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023

Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.

Interlinked

Mythology of the Commons

By Phoenix Simms • June 2nd, 2023

While there isn’t necessarily an overtly intersectional EcoGothic tone to Folklore, it does deal with bodies irrevocably changed by nature, binaries and transformed bodies.

Noise Complaint
The member of Ghost Bath, clad in all black, pose stoically in front of a huge stained-glass window.

Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between

By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023

Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.

Mind Palaces

Our World and the Others

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2023

Our scientific mindset, our modern rationalism is a handicap when attempting to represent the premodern, where the boundaries that we consider so key for understanding our world have no presence.

This Mortal Coyle
Elora the faun from Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. She has her head turned upside down as if she's addressing someone lying on the ground; she wears a dress made of leafy foliage and bears a striking resemblance to a red fox.

Elora the Faun from Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage

By Deirdre Coyle • May 26th, 2023

“I’m a faun, you dork!”

Past Presence
Artwork from an early iteration of the Animal Crossing franchise, featuring the male and female villagers with Blathers the owl and K.K. Slider the dog close at hand.

Virtual Citizen

By Dr. Emily Price • May 25th, 2023

A legend, per the OED, is “a story from ancient times about people and events that may or may not be true.” If the residents of Wild World are anything in my memory, they are that: ancient stories.

Funeral Rites

Composing the World of Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City

By Phoenix Simms • May 24th, 2023

Luka Rejec’s world is suffused with mind-expanding, psychedelic heavy metal and is also inspired by “the Dying Earth genre, and Oregon Trail games.”

Feature Story

Whatever Knows Fear

By Orrin Grey • May 23rd, 2023

The uncanny history of Marvel’s muck monster.

Letter from the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – May 2023

By David Shimomura • May 16th, 2023

Welcome to myths and legends.

Here's the Thing
A close-up of Ashley Graham from Resident Evil 4 Remake. She is a blonde woman with a tousled bob and red leather jacket.

The Importance of the Small Stuff in the RE4 Remake

By Rob Rich • May 12th, 2023

Resident Evil 4 Remake has won Rob over, but a big reason why is because of all the really small things it’s changed and refined.

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