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Hard-Copy Newsletters With A Fortean Focus

Zeke Newbold

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I thought we could do with a thread which mentions, and celebrates, hard copy newsletters or magazines - apart from Fortean Times, of course -which are concerned with the unexplained and paranormal and so forth.

Bonus points if they are from non-English speaking countries or regional. Bigger bonus points if they are still being published.

So here is a review of Russia's `Anomalous News` - Anomalny Novosti which continues to come out twice a month:

http://alternativerussianculture.sp...peoples-magic-the-newspaper-anomalni-novosti/
 
The Folklore Society publishes a quarterly newsletter

https://folklore-society.com/

Some of the names will be familiar as they have also written for, or in one case founded, FT.

The latest issue which dropped though my letter box a couple of days ago is now in A5 format.

If a group or organisation changes their publication to online only I am usually inclined to cease membership I’m afraid so I welcome this thread about hard copy newsletters.
 
I'm a fan of Time and Mind; one of the editors is Paul Deveraux. More a journal than a magazine or newsletter I think? I'm not sure how much of the site is visible without an academic licence?

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtam20/current

Sample paper titles

Subduing the demons of Tibet: geomantic magic during the Yarlung dynasty: a landscape archaeology assessment

Haunted by the memory of WWII: folklore, hauntology and the spectre of war in the Northern Norwegian landscape

Public bogies and supernatural landscapes in North-Western England in the 1800s
 
Hellebore. Just... fabulous! Folk Horror, witchcraft... not fiction.

https://helleborezine.bigcartel.com/
Sounds like a horticulture magazine :p

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Got the first two of these, didn't realise there had been a third and fourth one!

snap! I've just caught up and have now subscribed to the Tiny Newsletter to be notified properly in the future.
 
Fate has more tarot and psychics. Plus Fate kinda gets the people in in an easy way into the subject by putting it in a girly mag then introduce them to the more serious Spirit and Destiny.
 
https://www.weirdwalk.co.uk/

adding this here from another thread. This is their blurb, how wonderful is this?

Formed in the hinterland between the bucolic and the eerie, Weird Walk began as three friends walking an ancient trackway across southern England wearing incorrect footwear. Being out in the countryside for extended periods, away from screens and distractions, not only refreshed our brains but sparked a creative enthusiasm for the countless stories in the landscape that we yomped across. We spent three transformative days and nights on the Wessex Ridgeway, stopping off at Neolithic burial chambers, sacred hills, Iron Age earthworks, misreading maps, and sleeping in haunted pubs, all the while slowly becoming aware that the further from the towns and cities we walked, the wider the temporal boundaries grew.

Here was the land of Silbury Hill and Avebury stone circle, of Wayland the Smith and the great Uffington White Horse, whose annual scouring is a true pagan survival; here also was the land of the druids, the first farming communities, the last Saxon kings, and countless age-old folk tales. It was a potent path indeed, and the trip soon led to others.

By walking the ancient paths, visiting the sacred sites, and immersing ourselves in the folklore and customs of these isles, we hope to fan the faint embers of magic that still smoulder in the grate and conjure that elusive temporal trackway of history and mystery, a weird walk that bypasses nostalgia and leads us back towards optimism and re-enchantment.
 
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