The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/culture/book-reviews)
The Wild Hunt offers reviews of books on topics of interest to Pagans, Heathens, Wiccans, Witches and other Polytheists. From Astrology to Tarot, Reconstructionism to Pagan Biographies.
“For contemporary practitioners of Witchcraft, the novel demands wrestling with a complicated history,” Cosette Paneque writes. “These women weren’t claiming the identity of ‘Witch.’ They were sharing knowledge, building community, exercising what small control they could over their precarious lives.”
Najah Lightfoot’s book illuminates the spiritual magic of dolls, blending history, practice, and heartfelt storytelling. She guides readers to see dolls as sacred partners in magical work rather than mere objects of affection or curiosity.
Happy Halloween! To celebrate, Karl E.H. Seigfried considers novels by George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus, F. Paul Wilson, and John Bellairs, and what their horrors can teach us about the horrors that face us today.
Erick DuPree on what Gothic novels can teach us about society, then and now.
“Lessons in Magic and Disaster deals better with what it is to be a Witch than almost any of the how-to manuals that have come out since the ‘90s renaissance,” writes Meg Elison, reviewing the newest book by Charlie Jane Anders.
Lucas Miles’s The Pagan Threat leaves no ambiguity: it catalogues modern Pagan traditions in detail, framing them as enemies of church and nation. By casting Pagans as conspirators and parasites, the book transforms theological polemic into real-world danger for our communities.
