As of today, the thirteenth issue of The Fenris Wolf is published and available to order. The wait is finally over, and I’m grateful for the patience of Fenris fans and readers alike. I often wonder how it can take so long to assemble these monsters, but that just leads down similar rabbit-holes (or worm-ditto) as ”what’s beyond outer space?” Etc. So better to just repeat: As of today, the thirteenth issue of The Fenris Wolf is published and available to order. It’s a special issue that bounces off the third ”PSYCHARTCULT” conference (Copenhagen 2022), and anthologizes many of its papers. The overarching theme is ”Film as a visionary medium.” We have also included many great papers and talks from the many psychartcult events we’ve had online together with Morbid Anatomy over the years. Here follows the blurb and a list of the contributors: Step through the flickering darkness of the cinema and into the realm where celluloid becomes sorcery. This thirteenth issue of the long-running...

A great new conversation on my upcoming class about the brilliance of J.G. Ballard: #jgballard #renderingunconscious #sciencefiction #innerspace #industrialculture #morbidanatomy #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson

Hellelujah! The Fenris Wolf podcast is back. Video here: (Also available in audio via RSS) In episode 11 of the Fenris Wolf podcast, titled “The Earworms of My Mind,” Carl Abrahamsson delves into the profound and often overlooked power of music, particularly its evocative capabilities and potential for magical use. Abrahamsson highlights how music is typically perceived as a passive experience, where listeners curate playlists or choose songs to set moods for relaxation or productivity. However, he suggests that music can also be a dynamic tool for emotional processing and magical practice. Abrahamsson discusses the phenomenon of Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI), commonly known as earworms, where certain songs or tunes spontaneously surface in the mind and persistently loop. He notes that this involuntary recall can occur due to various triggers, including emotional states, contextual reminders, or even fatigue and stress, which may weaken cognitive inhibition. The...

Interested in the origins of the Nordic magical runes? Beginning April 5th, join Swedish author Carl Abrahamsson for a journey back in time to uncover the origins of the Nordic magical runes. Using the groundbreaking theories of Swedish runologist Sigurd Agrell, we will trace the runes back to the second century CE and explore how the fertile cultural soil of the Roman Empire shaped Germanic peoples—including their adoption of a specific written alphabet used primarily for magical purposes. Agrell showed that by rearranging the established rune row, the magical kinship with Greco-Roman and even earlier letter-magical systems becomes strikingly clear. Over four weeks, we will study the magical inscriptions on Swedish rune stones (many still standing in the landscape today) and examine theories about how the mythic figure of Wotan became the Scandinavian Odin through these early runic pioneers active in and around the Roman Empire. We will also ask whether some of this influence may...