The Dark Almanac

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A calendar of Britain's dark corners: customs, hauntings, broadsides, séance-press reports pfp/banner credit: Lewis Ashton

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The Mermaid of Zennor
Looking south along the sea wall path and beach at Borth
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Hell Kettles Croft Road, near Darlington
Plates of a cleft fossil, melons of stone and the ruined church of St. Iuan d'Akari. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
Inside St Martin's Church (Wharram Percy)
Buttress of All Saints church, Dunwich
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard
Summit cairn Ben MacDui
Stone circle near the King Stone, Warwickshire
Monument to Maggie Wall, Witch
Two lynx in a cave. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
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Stones of the Long Meg Circle
A young woman wearing a veil and black clothing mourning at a tombstone, with her dog attending on her. Mezzotint by H. Quilley after a painting by C. Hancock, 1836.
Clootie Well, The Black Isle
Monument to Maggie Wall, Witch
The morthouse, Udny Green churchyard
Cross Fell Summit Looking to Great Dun Fell
Looking south along the sea wall path and beach at Borth
Inside Sawney Bean's Cave
Church of St Morwenna and John the Baptist, Morwenstow, Cornwall
A hog roast outside The Miners Arms, Eyam
Looking south along the sea wall path and beach at Borth
The Halifax Gibbet
Creswell Crags - Entering the Gorge
Llyn y Fan Fach and the Bannau Sir Gaer
Hell Kettles Croft Road, near Darlington
The morthouse, Udny Green churchyard
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard
St Martin, Overstrand, Norfolk - East end
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed 1888–1913, showing Mardale, Westmorland. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Sandwood Bay
Alder Bay on Loch Ericht
'Clootie' Well, Munlochy, Black Isle
The Black Horse, Tring
Steng Cross and Winter's Gibbet
Wharram Percy
Chanctonbury Ring Fort: Off the South Downs Way
Cottages near Lydgate Graves, Eyam