#dark tourism
‘The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland ’ and 'The Atlas of Dark Destinations’ ~ Book Reviews
‘The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland ‘ and ‘The Atlas of Dark Destinations’ ~ Book Reviews
The Hellebore Guide is produced by the same team that created the very popular Hellebore zine that has blossomed in the recent renaissance of indie specialist-interest zines and the revival of attention to occulture and folklore. They have taken their sphere of interest and distinctive design aesthetic forward into book format with this very handy and beguiling gazetteer of British ritual,…
I Am The Dark Tourist by H.E. Sawyer: Book Review
I Am The Dark Tourist by H.E. Sawyer: Book Review
This book really makes you think, at least it made me think. Following on from my recent reading of Peter Laws’ The Frighteners (review here) where in wider terms questions and considerations are made regarding as to why some individuals are drawn towards macabre subjects; H.E. Sawyer takes this enigma into a more specific territory – not that of fiction but in the physical visitation of real…
Early starts aren’t nice. They’re even worse when you wake up in a cold sweat imagining you’re trapped in Chernobyl and history has repeated itself. Thankfully, it became clear that hadn’t happened when I woke up, but it did leave me unable to get back to sleep from about 4am, four hours before my tour began. Perhaps that was my subconscious telling me that I was a little more apprehensive than…
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Pripyat, Ukraine
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl, Ukraine