an encyclopaedia of the impossible world

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

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

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

Water’s importance in the creation of life is only matched by the vastness of its destructive potential: Dispassionate betrayals that can...

Few people believe that the dead find their final rest in places posited by long-defunct religions - fewer still pay Charon’s price - but...

The true nature of fate is too vast and too mysterious to be understood in anything approaching totality; but some portents can be...

Named both as vaguely as is descriptive and as specifically as our knowledge will allow, The Abhorrence brings incomparable death or...

Whilst the island of Crete may be most famous for its place in a history that has become mythical, the consequences of that infamy live...

Caught in the same traps laid repeatedly throughout history, thousands of people have been lured by mysterious celebrations -...