Markku Klæðskeri’s important work ‘The Autumn King: Ivar the Boneless, Edmund of East Anglia and the cult of Yngvi-freyr’ will shortly be published by Nemglan Press. We interviewed the author about some of the book’s major topics. Why did you choose to write about Ivar the Boneless and St Edmund? Primarily because there’s a mystery to be solved. In fact, there’s more than one. The main question I wanted to answer was: why did Ivar kill King Edmund in the […]
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REVIEW: WALKING THE TIDES BY NIGEL G. PEARSON
After reading his book ‘Treading the Mill’ a few years back, while camping in deepest rural Suffolk, I performed a few simple rites. They yielded powerful, unequivocal and almost instant results. It convinced me that the bond between practitioner and land is fundamental to magick. And the deeper the bond, the greater its potency. For me, the deepest bond is derived from practicing in the place I was born, which is why I return to Suffolk so often despite not […]
DECODING ‘A FIELD IN ENGLAND’
British director Ben Wheatley’s movie ‘A Field in England’ is a baffling but brilliant occult classic. The entire piece is allegorical, thick with symbolism. The challenge (and the fun) lies in interpreting those symbols in order to get to the heart of the film’s meaning. First, a very brief summary of the plot: set in the English Civil War, Whitehead is a neophyte astrologer sent by his master to arrest O’Neil, an alchemist, who has stolen certain rare documents. Accompanied […]
WELCOME TO NEMGLAN PRESS
All magickal works are products of the imagination, inasmuch as the imagination is the organ of magick and the gateway to unseen realms. Our objective at Nemglan Press is to publish works that are in and of themselves highly imaginative, but are also directly informed by the visionary states achieved by magickal practice. Such works will include poetry and fiction; magickal, alternate and heretical histories; new myths and twisted fables; rural, folk and land-based lore; or genres as-yet-unknown. But all will […]