Fiddler's Green Issue #9: Akashic Ashcan

Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine was born of a languid afternoon of conversation on a sunny tavern lawn. Taking its name from the pleasant afterlife dreamed into being by sailors, cavalrymen, and other adventurous spirits, Fiddler’s Green gathers friends, good cheer, and a bit of magic to create a better world not someday, but now.

In ecclesiastical terms, the word “peculiar” refers to a district outside the jurisdiction of the Church. It’s also a good word for describing my own view of reality, and likely yours as well. And so here is a “peculiar parish magazine” for anyone who doesn’t feel the need to have their inner life directed by others. If it is peculiar that we wish to govern our bodies and souls ourselves, then let us be peculiar.

The ninth issue, also known as “Akashic Ashcan,” published August 2025.

Fiddler’s Green 9 features copper titling, a cover drawn by Arik Roper, and 56 pages of art and magic, including reviews, a letters column, and the following:

• Cover Notes, Dendrites and the Erstwhile Knight

• Fanfare for the Common Mage: A Farewell to Abra-Melin, Editorial by Clint Marsh

• Anarcho-Oneiric Quietism: A Manifesto, by Seán Martin

• Reburying the Past: The Witch Bottles of Coggeshall, by Emma-Grace Clarke, illustrated by Moritz Krebs

• Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The Imaginative Effects of Milton’s Mulberry, by Aleco Julius, illustrated by Gerhard

• Witchcraft in the Underworld: The Unexpected Lessons of Suffering, by Elizabeth Kim, illustrated by Pitchblack Illustration

• Creating Altars of Language: The Intersection of Poetry and Ritual, by Kate Belew, illustrated by Alexis Berger

• Tall Grass Magic: Fantasy as Gateway to the Real, by Clint Marsh

• Doonie Woods: Poetry by Grey Malkin

• Remembering David Lance Goines, by Steve Wasserman

BONUS FLEXI-DISC

• Doors to Nowhere, by In Gowan Ring