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A review by bookishwondergoth
Hellebore #6: The Summoning Issue by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
It’s been quite a while since I read an issue of Hellebore, but it is always a delight to return to their pages. Some of these articles are the best I’ve ever read from this little independent magazine. The 2021 Samhain issue concerns summoning rituals, objects used to summon, and of course, historical figures famous for the act of summoning.
‘Hell Is Other Readers’, ‘The Devil’s Prayer Book’, ‘Spinster Satanism’ and ‘The Land Between God and the Devil’ are all excellent and tap into my personal interests of feminism and heresy. Meanwhile, I personally found ‘Dr Dee’s Ottoman Adventure’ quite inaccessible and difficult to follow, being so unfamiliar with its subject, Dr John Dee. It’s always going to be the case that you get along with some articles rather than others, but I greatly enjoyed the majority here that were included.
The final article concerning the inversion of Guy Fawkes from villain to a figurehead of rebellion is particularly wonderful, and hands down my favourite Hellebore article to date.
Onto the next issue… I have a lot to catch up on!
‘Hell Is Other Readers’, ‘The Devil’s Prayer Book’, ‘Spinster Satanism’ and ‘The Land Between God and the Devil’ are all excellent and tap into my personal interests of feminism and heresy. Meanwhile, I personally found ‘Dr Dee’s Ottoman Adventure’ quite inaccessible and difficult to follow, being so unfamiliar with its subject, Dr John Dee. It’s always going to be the case that you get along with some articles rather than others, but I greatly enjoyed the majority here that were included.
The final article concerning the inversion of Guy Fawkes from villain to a figurehead of rebellion is particularly wonderful, and hands down my favourite Hellebore article to date.
Onto the next issue… I have a lot to catch up on!