Myths & Stories

Feeding From the Fire Below by Kate Walters (|Issue 6)

What kinds of stories can help us find our bearings in times of loss and disorientation? Dark Mountain began with the claim that the roots of today’s crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves, but out of this grows the hope that the telling of stories might also have a part to play in how we find ways through.

Among the crew that gathers around this project, you’ll find novelists, mythographers, playwrights, anthropologists and campfire storytellers. One of the things we share is a sense that stories are more than entertainment, that they are how humans make sense of the world, maybe even that the world itself is made of stories.

The Cliff Falls

Alice McIlroy
11th October, 2023
New novelist Alice McIlroy takes us to the edge of  a mythic territory where the hares are dying,  a scientist is counting,  a woman is waiting: a house is about to collapse. A short cautionary tale for an age of consequences.
Myths & Stories

The Migration of Memory

Rohini Walker
17th November, 2021
Rohini Walker interprets the myth and meaning of 'the crone' – through a retelling of three encounters that take us from Kolkata's suburbs, down into the London Underground and out into California's starry desert night.
Myths & Stories