TALES OF THE OAK

For Halloween, our resident archivist Neil Bristow, delves into the dark notebooks and diaries of Sir Glen Douglas Rhodes ... A nigh...

Rounding off our 13 Commonwealth Tales project, our Uncommon Tales comic is now available to read for free online. Physical copies will...

cover by Andy Lee Our winter comic for this year is Uncommon Tales , in which Sir Glen Douglas Rhodes travels around various commonwealt...

the volunteers of magic torch are delighted with a busy year We have been really fortunate this year to receive support from a whole ra...

Anansi features in both of our Commonwealth books, Spun Gold will appear in our Uncommon Tales comic , due out later this year and starr...

A preview panel for Uncommon Tales, in which Sir Glen battles Lusca, the Sharktopus found in the Bahamas. This folktale of course insp...

We've already shared the first page of Uncommon Tales on The Dutch Gable House blog , here's a little more, showcasing for the...

Fifteen...men on a dead man's chest? Fifteen...minutes of fame? No...fifteen years since we started doing things as Magic Torch....

what horrors has Sir Glen unleashed this time? As we've mentioned, Magic Torch are sharing Commonwealth folktales as part of the 20...

Before tabloids, a broadside was a cheap way of printing and distributing (mainly) sensational or salacious stories. You can read loads o...

2013 has been a great year on the blog, we've had tens of thousands of visits, new writers, new friends and more folklore and storie...

One of the stories in our Tales of the Oak comic deals with the folklore surrounding the town horseshoe which sits at the fountain in the...

We've been working on our Tales of the Oak comic for almost a year now, and we're really pleased to say it's finally away to...

A recently discovered portrait of local archivist, adventurer and folklorist Sir Glen Douglas Rhodes, sometime resident of the Dutch Gab...

the lovely folk of Greenock Writers Club We had the pleasure of visiting the Greenock Writer's Club the other night to give a talk...

This evening, Neil Bristow presents a tale culled f rom the notes and papers of local antiquarian, Sir Glen Douglas Rhodes... Decem...