All I can think about is “Who carved this?”

I hope to have a very exciting update this weekend for our Kickstarter backers, but  I fear I’ve been neglecting this site.  To tide you all over in the mean time, I thought I might suggest a great place to read all about all the weird New England folklore I’ve not had time to get to yet : Peter Muise’s blog “New England Folklore“.

The blog updates about once a week and covers topics that definitely range into the sweet spot of history and weirdness that is wherein the Arkham Gazette likes to dwell.  Here are a few recent topics covered:

• The Moodus Noises
• Mary Toothaker and the Devil’s Protection
• The Ballad of Giles Corey
• The Ghosts of the Great Elm

By happenstance all of these topics connect in one way or another to witchcraft, though he’s covered other topics as well:

• Witchcraft (I had to start with it)
• Sea Serpents
• Ghosts
• UFOs
• Fairies
• H.P. Lovecraft

Muise has written a book on the subject – Legends and Lore of the North Shore – if you’d rather skip the digital version of things.