It seems apposite, with the blossom heavy in the trees and the bluebells carpeting the woods, that the new issue of Hellebore should examine the stories and tales we tell about the plants, trees and flowers that surround us. The tales here are charged with magic and supernatural energy - and contain figures that typify the season - from the Green Man to Peter Pan.
Inside - there's a search for the Green Man and a look at the roots of this folkloric character, a profile on how J M Barrie drew on mythology and folklore in his creation of the boy who never grows up, editor Maria J Pérez Cuervo looks at how spring blooms have inspired folk tales and legends, there's an examination on how forests have inspired generations of musicians, a look at how plant intelligence has inspired weird fiction writers, and an unearthing of the roots of the Jack-in-a Green.
HELLEBORE is a collection of writings and essays devoted to folk horror and the themes that inspire it: folklore, myth, history, archaeology, psycho-geography, and the occult.
A5 magazine, 90 pages
