The Mardler //Issue 4 -Winter, 2025

£13.00

Our in house zine… WINTER SPECIAL!

With 21 fabulous contributors! Absolutely packed to the rafters with seasonal folky goodness! Including…

CONTENTS

The Witch Hare//A Lincolnshire Visitation                

Butterfingers//A tale of cottage industry

Green Fae//A beauty manifested from biro 

A review & provocation regarding the Essex Smock

Black Dog Poetics and Painting                                                         

Folklore on Tap: The stories behind East Anglian Pub Names

EAFC Zine Templates & Make your own Fiji Mermaid 

Grounds for Possession//A Fenland story

Details from our beautiful Cover Image         

Wintering and Weathering: Stories of St Liduina and Ice Skating in East Anglia

“The Opportunist”                                                       

Arcane//A brief encounter with the Lantern Man

Gogmagog – The giant who became known as two

Drumbeats of the Past: Uncle Gerald’s Fateful Meeting with the Hickling Drummer Boy.

Lore//A poem                                                                           

A lino print inspired by Sutton Hoo

On Betty Blackwood//Unsung Local Straw Hero     

The Toadswoman//Fenland Flash Fiction

They Called me Monster//The Ludham Dragon    

Seasonal Poetry from the liminal shore

Field Report from Todmorden                                       

Half a Turn//A Solstice Yarn

The Tomte’s Porridge//A retelling                              

Trees; A Collection

The lord of Winter//The devil in Shropshire                     

&

A directory of our wonderful Contributors

All work is credited to it’s originator in the pages on which it is found.

Our in house zine… WINTER SPECIAL!

With 21 fabulous contributors! Absolutely packed to the rafters with seasonal folky goodness! Including…

CONTENTS

The Witch Hare//A Lincolnshire Visitation                

Butterfingers//A tale of cottage industry

Green Fae//A beauty manifested from biro 

A review & provocation regarding the Essex Smock

Black Dog Poetics and Painting                                                         

Folklore on Tap: The stories behind East Anglian Pub Names

EAFC Zine Templates & Make your own Fiji Mermaid 

Grounds for Possession//A Fenland story

Details from our beautiful Cover Image         

Wintering and Weathering: Stories of St Liduina and Ice Skating in East Anglia

“The Opportunist”                                                       

Arcane//A brief encounter with the Lantern Man

Gogmagog – The giant who became known as two

Drumbeats of the Past: Uncle Gerald’s Fateful Meeting with the Hickling Drummer Boy.

Lore//A poem                                                                           

A lino print inspired by Sutton Hoo

On Betty Blackwood//Unsung Local Straw Hero     

The Toadswoman//Fenland Flash Fiction

They Called me Monster//The Ludham Dragon    

Seasonal Poetry from the liminal shore

Field Report from Todmorden                                       

Half a Turn//A Solstice Yarn

The Tomte’s Porridge//A retelling                              

Trees; A Collection

The lord of Winter//The devil in Shropshire                     

&

A directory of our wonderful Contributors

All work is credited to it’s originator in the pages on which it is found.