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  • Destitute and Dissected

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    How the archaeology of workhouse burials shows that the destitute poor were regularly dissected post-mortem against their own wishes.

    May 26, 2021
    History & Archaeology, Portfolio
  • The Royals Who Shared Their Beds With Mummies

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    The idea of royalty sharing their beds with the shrivelled corpse of a man yanked out of a grave is nothing short of shocking, but it wouldn’t have been an unusual sight in the court of the Spanish Habsburgs.

    April 18, 2019
    History & Archaeology
  • Edgar Allan Poe

    The Gruesome Medieval Masquerade That Inspired Edgar Allan Poe

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    How an obscure episode from 14th-century France inspired one of Poe's most macabre tales.

    October 22, 2018
    Books, History & Archaeology, Portfolio
  • The Summer of Monsters

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    In the summer of 1816, as skies darkened across the world following a volcanic eruption, a group of Romantic writers gathered in a house on the shores of Lake Geneva and told one another ghost stories.

    July 25, 2017
    Books, Gothic, History & Archaeology, Portfolio
  • Fashion Victims

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    Throughout history, people have tried to distinguish themselves from the common herd by turning to fashion and cosmetics, even when the results could be bizarre, harmful and even fatal, giving the expression “fashion victim” a literal meaning.

    November 27, 2016
    History & Archaeology, Portfolio
  • The return of Gothic Romance

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    Guillermo del Toro described his recent film Crimson Peak as a “classic Gothic Romance”, a subgenre that has been consigned to oblivion for nearly four decades. But what is Gothic Romance, what makes it different to horror and why did it fall into obscurity?

    March 26, 2016
    Books, Film, Ghosts, Gothic, Portfolio
  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    The lost children of Hamelin

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    The tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is based on a tragic event that dates back to 1284. What happened in Hamelin, and who was the mysterious Pied Piper?

    Image: Feans

    March 6, 2015
    History & Archaeology, Mystery, Myths, Portfolio, Travel
  • The Wild Hunt

    Pilgrims from hell

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    The legend of the Holy Company, a procession of the dead, still provokes superstitious fear in rural areas in Spain. Early sources reveal its similarity to Celto-Germanic myths.

    Image: Åsgårdsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo

    March 5, 2015
    Ghosts, Mystery, Myths, Portfolio, Travel
  • Snow White

    Who’s the darkest of them all?

    by Maria J Pérez Cuervo

    Murder, cannibalism, necrophilia. The first versions of Snow White are much darker than the recent adaptations that claim to have given the classic tale a dark edge.

    Image: Joseph Jacobs John Dickson Batten [Public domain]

    March 5, 2015
    Mystery, Myths, Portfolio

HELLO!

I'm Maria, a freelance writer, editor, and SMM based in Bristol, UK.
I specialise in archaeology, history, mystery and myth.

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Blog, folk horror, Hellebore

World Fantasy Awards 2022

Exciting news! The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards 2022 have been announced, and I’m delighted to have been nominated in the category ‘Special Award—Non-professional’ for Hellebore. You can...

July 23, 2022
Blog, folk horror, folklore, Hellebore, History & Archaeology

Interview in LaSpirale.org

French journalist, screenwriter, and producer Laurent Coureau interviewed me about Hellebore and folk horror for the veteran e-zine LaSpirale.Org. You can read my interview (in French) here, or the...

December 9, 2021
Blog, folklore, Gothic, Hellebore, History & Archaeology, Mystery, Myths

Hellebore 5: The Unearthing Issue

What has been buried ought not to return. The new issue of HELLEBORE is out now.

May 26, 2021

Writing, Editing, Social Media

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