
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.



Singing Stories, Telling Tales
Shiba Desor
18th December, 2017
Hirma Devi Sumtiyal, who is known to many in the village Sarmoli in Munsiari as...

The Empty Countryside
Sara Hudston
2nd October, 2017
For thousands of years, the English countryside has never been so empty of people and...

Bottleneck
Gregory Norminton
26th June, 2017
There is a second jolt. Passengers murmur as the plane lurches through fathoms of air....

The Glimpse
Carla Stang
5th April, 2017
Hot and grimy from hard work in the manioc orchard the two sisters trot down...

I am Taliesin
Sophie McKeand
29th March, 2017
Bum yn lliaws rith kyn bum disgyfrith I was in a multitude of forms before...

The Walk of the Moon
Joanna Hruby
23rd March, 2017
It’s a warm afternoon in late May, and a small crowd gathers on a circular...

The Black Snake and the Row of Flags
Ben Mali Macfadyen
16th March, 2017
Shadows draped the tattered canvas of ‘Wounded Knee Kitchen’. Sodden figures, sheltering from the blizzard...

Riding the Back of the Bear-King
Sylvia Linsteadt
9th March, 2017
An essay about storytelling and belonging from our series 'The Mythos We Live By'

The Mythos We Live By: Uncolonising Our Imagination
Charlotte Du Cann
2nd March, 2017
In the coming six weeks as spring approaches, we will be looking at several ‘uncivilised’...

The Man in the Tower
Manuar Smith
27th September, 2016
‘The Man in the Tower’ is part of a web of stories that depict the...