Clara MacGauffin

🔥 Flames of Retribution is here! 🔥
11 tales of dragons, monsters, and fiery vengeance—where ancient evils rise, knights fall, and humanity faces the fury of fire itself.

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All of the authors who have stories in this work are donating their creative efforts toward helping Lori and her family through this difficult time.

Every little bit helps.

Cover art for BCS issue #440, featuring a bridge over a stream passing through a narrow mountain gap

New @bcsmagazine.bsky.social issue is here, featuring stories by @jonolfert.bsky.social and Julie Reeser: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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No Wasted Wombs: Lebensborn, Sterilization and the Nazi War Children The Nazi Lebensborn program, founded in 1935 by Heinrich Himmler, has long stood as one of the most unsettling experiments in social engineering.

No Wasted Wombs: Lebensborn, Sterilization and the Nazi War Children
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#history #lestweforget

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Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World They say if you see it once, you’re lucky.

Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
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#internationaldogday

The She-Wolf Croatia

The She-Wolf
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Smørbukk (“Butterball”) (A Norwegian folktale, freely retold) Asbjørnsen og Moe's NORSKE FOLKEEVENTYR

Smørbukk (“Butterball”)
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Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World They say if you see it once, you’re lucky.

Haunted by the Black Dog: Folklore’s Phantom Hounds Across the World
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Fairytale Friday's story retellings prompt #1 So this is the first prompt in Fairytale Friday’s story retellings.

Fairytale Friday's story retellings prompt #1
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Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne a Sami folk tale

Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne
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The Man Who Was to Keep House By: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe

The Man Who Was to Keep House
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The Ghost of Ábær or Nýibær Folk Legends and Fairy Tales from Iceland From the folklore collection of Jón ÁrnasonBased on stories from Skagafjörður

The Ghost of Ábær or Nýibær
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The Legend of King Gråkappan and the “Severance” Connection The King in the Gray Cloak (Gråkappan)

The Legend of King Gråkappan and the “Severance” Connection
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The Kind Maiden and the Spirit Folk Folktale from Halland in Sweden

The Kind Maiden and the Spirit Folk
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Beasts in the Wood: The Twisting Legacy of Nordic Animal Ornament If you look closely at the portal carvings of Norway’s Urnes Stave Church, you’ll see them – long-snouted creatures with almond-shaped eyes, their bodies wound into knots so tight they almost vanish i...

Beasts in the Wood: The Twisting Legacy of Nordic Animal Ornament
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Taken by the Mountain: Trolls, Changelings, and the Perils of the Wild The fog can come in quickly in the Nordic forest.

Taken by the Mountain: Trolls, Changelings, and the Perils of the Wild
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Clara MacGauffin (@fairytalesandfolklore)

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The Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Arboreal Imagination J.R.R.

The Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Arboreal Imagination
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Clara MacGauffin (@fairytalesandfolklore) I love stories that explain why things are the way they are. This one from Greenland explains why the Raven is black. The Raven and the Goose Do you know why the raven is so black, so dull and black...

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The Green Husband of Lake Dusk A fairy-tale retelling of the poem Kytice z pověstí národních by Karel Jaromír Erben

The Green Husband of Lake Dusk
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A fairy-tale retelling of the poem Kytice z pověstí národních by Karel Jaromír Erben

Unity can still be worth striving for—at least enough for peaceful coexistence. Conflicts won’t vanish, nor should we hope or fear it. The future may hide shifting values. So unity must go hand‑in‑hand with change, continually re‑asking what makes a good life and why utopian visions persist.

Tolkien and the Kalevala: A Northern Light in Middle-earth A Spark from Finland: Tolkien Discovers the Kalevala

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Vampires of the North: Norse Myth and the Undead in Victorian Britain Imagine a Viking ghost – a hulking medieval corpse that walks after death – being described with the same term as Dracula.

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