an encyclopaedia of the impossible world

Many things in the world are elusive, actively resistant to elucidation and understanding; none are as frustrating as those whose study...

With enough cunning and the right tools, the distinction between possible and impossible is a more permeable and more malleable boundary...

There are many horrors that can freeze the blood of their victims by turning their gaze upon them. Fewer can paralyse someone with the...

Certain arcane truths bear intrinsic dangers, weight that can warp or distort the world around them and - in so doing - make lies of...

Where evolution is a gradual process - if not always a steady one - metamorphosis can create sudden and brutal shifts that we are...

The fears, paranoia and secrecy of the Cold War awakened ancient fascinations: Science and the supernatural bringing together spying and...

There are many times and places wherein humanity has fallen short, and not only short of our best, but short of meeting the most basic...

Instantaneous communication over vast distances has always been a goal of human endeavour (both magical and technological) though the...

Documenting an incident that took place either over a single month or over more than a century, The November Papers offer an insight into...

There are cases where ignorance is not a direct existential threat. Sometimes, though, what we don't know could harm us all.

Although the macabre and the monstrous are more obviously and immediately interesting, there are some more hopeful phenomena that deserve...

Interactions between different realities are dangerous, but where superstition prevails misunderstandings can quickly become bloody.

Fruits is a malleable motif in myths across the world, but where they occur in observable supernatural phenomena they play a sinister role.

The greatest weapons are formed and forged in the white-hot heat of absolute conviction, but the dread of uncertainty that keeps them close.

While often oversimplified, the various historical traditions linking mental illness to the influences of demons, djinn and curses...

Though it is a gift that is often disregarded -overlooked untilit is lost - our physicality that that makes us more than observers.

Once lost, the location of Hephaestus’ Quench has been kept secret through subterfuge and misinformation by those wishing to control it.

Where archaeology can uncover the origins of technologies, esoteric counterparts sometimes reveal things beyond our current understanding.

It is likely fortunate that the fundamental language of creation seems to be one which (despite our efforts) we have not yet been able to...

While most prayers go unacknowledged, those which aren’t are sometimes answered in ways that have repercussions beyond even the loosest...