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What is a Grimoire?

October 29, 2026

When you hear the word “grimoire,” what do you imagine? Is it something mystical and rough, like the above? Would it surprise you to know that it can look more like a journal or scrapbook, like the below? Possibly descending from the French word grammaire, meaning ‘grammar’ or ‘learning’, a grimoire is a book with a variety […]

How to Revise a Fantasy Manuscript

October 16, 2026

Books About Magic | Library | Magic & Scholarship

Every completed manuscript is an incredible accomplishment, but fantasy novels, which are notorious for being lengthy and complex, pose an impressive challenge for any writer. Between inventing original names, designing a magic system, and, literally, creating a world—fantasy manuscripts are uniquely difficult to write, and even more daunting to revise. Finishing the third draft of […]

How to Read Tea Leaves for Self Love

October 12, 2026

Culture & Magic | Featured Reads | Library

“Our society doesn’t talk about wounds of consciousness. We don’t even have a common language for it.” It’s that Samhain season, when the veil is thin, and if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as I do, our world is cooling. Leaves are beginning to fall. Each night touched with an […]

Books Like the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

October 7, 2026

Books About Magic | Featured Reads | Library

After making a name for herself with her Shades of Magic series, V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue made a huge impression on readers in 2020. Schwab breathed a strong literary voice into the novel’s titular main character Addie LaRue, while setting up a magical conflict that forces LaRue to reckon with […]

How Are Art and Alchemy Similar?

October 6, 2026

Culture & Magic | Featured Reads | Library

Before there were chemists, there were alchemists. In fact, the two “sciences” come from the same root word, chem, which may be derived from the Ancient Egyptian term keme (black earth, a reference to the dark, fertile soil of the Nile) or the Greek chyma (to cast/pour together). It is unclear when the practice of […]

Books About Appalachian Witchcraft

October 5, 2026

Books About Magic | Featured Reads | Library

When you hear the word “Appalachia,” what do you think of? Mountains dense with trees in every shade of fall? Rivers that run with secrets and trout in their waters? Coal towns that are no longer towns? What about magic? The Appalachia not shown in mainstream media is rich with oral histories, herbal medicines, living […]

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