In this illustrated lecture Dr. Asma will explore how monster culture has played a role in antisocial representation of humans outside one’s

Welsh Fairy Tales featuring real fairies, myths and monsters from traditional storyteller Viktor Wynd

This evening’s presentation maps out their history, and that of the rituals associated with them

Dr David Walsh gives us an illustrated Zoom talk on fourth-century Rome and its complex transformation from paganism to Christianity.

A Zoom talk by Dr Simon Young on the boggart, a much-feared, little-studied supernatural being from the north of England

Mark Cocker draws on examples explored in his massive and massively acclaimed book Birds and People

In this illustrated talk, Michael Staley on the development of Austin Osman Spare's artwork

Hoffman reveals both the grandeur and the precarious fate of the one of our last wild places

The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: England's Best Documented Witchcraft Case by James Sharpe

The Spiritualism Symposium, curated by Shannon Taggart : Spirit - Vibration - Form: The Study of Cymatics, with Steve Bass

In this talk we will be going on a walking tour of the “Gwithti a Pystri” via a short film produced by Gemma Gary and Jane Cox of Troy Books

The talk offers a guided tour through the occult milieu she was part of in Sweden

In this talk, Malice in Wonderland, Vickers shares excerpts from his personal diaries kept during this period

Louise will show examples of how it was represented during this time and how the zombie began to be detached from its cultural origins

Join Peter Riley for a discussion of his critically-acclaimed book, Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger.

Michael Fitzgerald talks about The Occult Foundations of Nazism: The Thule Group and the Vril Society

In this talk I will review some of the recent work on the remarkable cognitive capacities of food-caching corvids

This talk is designed to ask when it originated, how it developed, and whether there was a real man behind it.

This illustrated lecture will specifically revolve around Schiaparelli’s Zodiac Collection, exploring her fascination with the Solar System

Emily Rapp Black is a New York Times-bestselling author. Her most recent book, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

This talk, richly illustrated with images and film clips, discusses the technique, how enormous bodies of texts in an arcane language

Who was Rudolf Steiner? My lecture will go some way to answering that question

In this illustrated Zoom talk, Mark will discuss some of the themes which he explores in his most-recent book, 'Dark Folklore'.

This presentation will explain the differences between the broad categories of esoteric marks found in old buildings

An illustrated Zoom lecture on H. P. Lovecraft, the New England writer of weird, science-fiction and horror fiction, by S. T. Joshi.

The Spiritualism Symposium by Shannon Taggart : Linen Veils and Lightning Masks: Theurgical Mediumship of Late Antiquity, Leonard George

In this set Pete Castle will explore musical stories and storytelling songs, mainly from the English tradition

Taliesin is the super-poet of Welsh tradition, the shapeshifting bard who has been everywhere and in everything

This talk examines the important if overlooked esoteric and feminist contributions of three American women

A Zoom talk by Colin Dickey on the father of all things Fortean: Charles Fort

Phil will talk about his new book - City of The Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley - a work that combines biography and psychogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life

Professor Roger Luckhurst explores advances in medical science, the modern zombie story and its role in horror fiction and film.

In this talk, Christopher McIntosh, author of two books on the Rosicrucians, will explore this movement and its many-faceted impact.

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

She will discuss the turbulent times, colonisation and the enslavement of people, human sacrifice and the culture that permeates all of this

This talk looks at its history, in those three nations and in Scotland and at its wider context, as a possible ancient pan-Celtic

This lecture will focus on Abercrombie’s solitary Surrealism and how her still, isolated art offers us glimpses into marvellous worlds that feel excitingly alive.

Michael Fitzgerald talks about The Hollow Earth theory

In this talk Dame Marina Warner will discuss her book 'From The Beast to The Blonde - on Fairy Tales and their Tellers

This talk by historian Dr Alexander Cummins investigates the roles and powers of the dead in Western occult philosophy and magical practices

Rochelle Roberts writes about her personal experience with the lingering ghost of grief and the ways in which she uses visual art

This lecture by historian Dr Alexander Cummins analyses some of the techniques contained within this manuscript source

Touchstones of belief: a rich legacy of Charms and Amulets in Scotland by Professor Hugh Cheape

Storyteller Kirsty Hartsiotis will take you into a hidden world of green children and wild men, tell the strange secret of Black Shuck

This talk identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry and asks how cultural perceptions of water’s sacrality can be employed to

In this talk, by historian Dr Alexander Cummins will offer us a tour of such libraries, and present some key findings about the nature of magic, community

Simon Costin, live from the museum in Cornwall where he will show and discuss some of his favourite treasures from the collection

How did the Morning of the Magicians turn into the Night of the Living Dead? Come and dig it, man!

This illustrated talk looks not only at her published work, but also her angelic course material and personal anecdotes from her students, a

Jim Rockhill gives an illustrated talk on the Irish ghost story writer and novelist Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, who was born this day (28 Aug) in 1814.

This presentation looks at the evidence for one in historical texts and archaeological finds and also at the way in which

Leigh Bowery soon established himself at the centre of London’s nightclub scene and has remained a cultish, iconic figure

This will be an evening of captivating tales about the main characters of Asgard and the creatures that existed alongside them

This week we turn to the greatest of Irish heroes, who defends the entirely of Ulster single-handedly aged only seventeen

Paul Willetts shares the extraordinary, little-known Jazz Age adventures of the white American imposter, Edgar Laplante a.k.a. Chief White Elk.

An illustrated Zoom talk on this particular form of magical house protection, with Brian Hoggard.

This lecture will look closer at the history of the supernatural trolls in Scandinavia

Professional Storyteller Wendy Shearer has gathered together stories from many islands, with themes of magic and mystery, love and loss

The speaker will draw on a wide range of sources for his accounts of these birds, their habits and demise

Folklorist Mark Norman takes us through the real world folklore, urban myth and legend that populates the cartoon universe of Scooby-Doo.

This talk will also explore innovations in sexual magic during the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries

This presentation will look at historical documentation from women who corseted, men who had opinions about it

The Museum of Drugs: Under the Influence - a history of drug use from early evolution to criminalisation

The talk will focus on depictions of Cornwall’s rocks as vibratory, such as those found in works by D.H. Lawrence

Leah Gordon will discuss the possibilities and problematics of exhibiting Haitian art from her experience of co-curating PÒTOPRENS

This talk will analyse several popular K-pop performances through the lens of Western occult traditions, Chaos Magick, and Korean shamanism

This talk is designed to consider those interactions, and the representations since 1700 of Druids as patriotic heroes, sages and scholars

What is the Fourth Way and is true that we are, as Gurdjieff, said, really nothing but machines? Make a super-effort to attend and see.

This talk will reveal how at the threshold is the possibility of enchantment as a creative and psychological experience

London Stone: a mysterious block of stone in central London. What is it, and why are there so many myths about its origin and purpose?

The lecture will also look at the presence of nature in ritual scenes, particularly sacred trees

We will be following their adventures and those of the Lord Finn tonight

Julia Phillips tells the story of this significant chapter in the story of the establishment and development of Wicca

She wrote The Hearing Trumpet when still quite young though her heroine Marian Leatherby is a 92-year-old woman with bad hearing

A guided exploration and explanation into Mexico's growing devotion to La Santa Muerte

Sharon Jacksties takes you on a pan-European mythological journey that ends in Britain and Ireland

The talk will question established narratives about the St Ives artistic community, and in doing shine a new light on the history

In this lecture, I will present different perspectives on giants

This talk looks at how the life and death of Joan Wytte has become a foundational stone for modern witches in search of practical ancestors

This presentation will examine ideas about motherhood, mastication, and monstrosity in these modern female vampire movies

Michael Fitzgerald talks about The Nazis and UFOs

She will be reflecting on the enduring and alluring world of witchcraft, what has changed, what has not, and what draws us to it still

This lecture explores the history of poppets and their uses in modern witchcraft

The purpose of this talk is to find out why the early folklorists had such an interest in ancient paganism and such a conviction that traces

This lecture will trace a lineage of culinary craft from the ancient world to the present, seeking out the tools and techniques

This lecture discusses Hecate as the preeminent god of witches and the witches of Greek and Roman literature

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Kirsty Hartsiotis tells with spine-chilling freshness a selection of fabulous ghost tales from all corners of this beguiling county

An online Zoom lecture about one of the greatest American women writers of unsettling fiction, Shirley Jackson (1916–1965).

Professor Dickie will talk about his surprising and enthralling bestseller - The Craft

A follow-up lecture on more of the magical, mysterious and scary creatures we meet in Scandinavian folklore

The Spider Dance makes some key practical and theoretical contributions to the study of contemporary religions

The talk will explore how methods and motivations in taxidermy evolved to become a significant art form

His preface to Charles Williams' tarot novel The Greater Trumps serves as a primer to the 'wicked pack of cards' and demonstrates his skill

Join farmer and conservationist Derek Gow as he discusses one of Britain's rarest and most enigmatic native mammalian predators.

Storyteller Lisa Schneidau tells tall folk tales from the rivers, lakes and the streams of the British Isles. Expect tragic goddesses, dastardly dragons and an eel with attitude

The classic fairy tale is a story about how a person or a group of people copes with a supernatural event or a supernatural being,

We look at some early Welsh poems (one spoken by Myrddin to his pet piglet)

In this talk Christopher McIntosh, author of the forthcoming book Occult Russia, will talk about Russia's mystical, esoteric and occult reawakening

This talk is designed to explain when and how our familiar midwinter customs developed, and why

Explore the authentic folklore, history and contemporary practices associated with the Krampus with Al Ridenour

We are sticking once more with the Arthurian world, and introducing one of the best medieval Welsh tales: the story of Culhwch and Olwen

In this lecture we will be focusing on those steamy, hilarious and astonishingly graphic stories that have been passed down

This final talk introduces one of the most famous heroines of Irish literature, whose story was turned into numerous plays

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

The Spiritualism Symposium by Shannon Taggart : The Moment of Revelation: Cases from New York's ‘Burned-Over District’ - Joscelyn Godwin

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit

Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit