an encyclopaedia of the impossible world

There are said to be several authorities sitting above and beyond the justice of human laws, the strangest to whose existence we can...

The institutionalisation of the mentally ill - and other marginalised people - created the dehumanising conditions ideal for the...

Believed to be some of the largest living organisms on the planet, mushrooms and fungi occupy a strange and liminal space in how our two...

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

Serpents have long been viewed as wicked, at least in Western iconography, tarred by the truly despicable things that ape the strange and...

There are several myths and legends in which the first humans were formed from dirt or from clay and at least one monster to whom our...