Edited by Chiara Amendola

FAR OUT WEST

The third issue of Occulture: A Warning to the Curious, a new zine series from the U.K. reveling in the recurring cycles of occult revival and all the possibility they bring to the world.

Occulture returns with its third issue and an invitation to travel that extends for thousands of miles, through the infinite and unknown folklore of the land we call America. Featuring an opening editorial and the following articles…

• Cursed Grounds: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Myth. Writer Josh Teal uncovers the deep contradictions behind the horror trope of the Indian burial ground.

• The Politics of Voodoo: The Spiritual War on Secular Oppression. Author Antony Shaw explores the historical, societal and political background that birthed Voodoo.

• Demons of the Prairie: Madness and the American Dream. Hwaet!’s co-founder George Parr takes us on a journey through the windswept and impervious world of the Great Plains.

• The Debt of the Sin Eater: On Dead Cakes, Class Divide and Acts of Kindness. Occulture’s editor Chiara Amendola unearths the forgotten custom of sin eating and its comeback in pop culture.

• Someone Is a Witch: Unlikely Witchcraft in the American Colonies. Historian Bernardo Marconi explores witchcraft accusations at the time of the first pioneers.

• The Lord Under the Mountain: The Controversial Uncle of the Andean Mines. Axis Mundi’s editor and author Marco Maculotti digs deep into the dark folklore of mining and its menacing characters.

…complete with artwork by Church of the Hollow Spider, Lee Lund, Bunty May Marshall, Brad Robert Benford, Moritz Krebs, Ryan William Kay, Joy Farquhar, and Laura Cheshire.

Published by Occulture (February 2025). A new pamphlet in perfect condition.

72-page perfect-bound paperback with full-color illustrations throughout.