Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  A book called ‘The Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song’ edited by R.H. Cromek and published 1810, contains this “Account of Billy Bli...

  I am extremely fond of house-spirits, two of which appeared in my first  books for children. The three books of my Troll trilogy all featu...

  For more than a decade from the mid 1970s the artist Joan Hassall was a neighbour of my family in the Yorkshire Dales village of Malham. I...

A talk I gave for The Folklore Podcast last November, with some additions and revisions for this post. This gruesome photo shows a genuine e...