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Wytchery: A Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

Wytchery: A Gothic Cabinet of Curiosities and Mysteries

A collection of gothic horror stories, urban legends, ghosts, haunted houses & other curiosities

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“Once upon a midnight dreary”

The Gothic Curiosity Cabinet of Todd Atteberry

Gothic horror stories, places stained with history and hauntings, a healthy dose of witchcraft, paganism, stone circles and the unknown


Meet the author …

It was sometime in the nineties and I was stumbling home from a bar, pissed to the gills, and found myself laying atop a snowbank, looking up at the stars, and I began to ponder exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up …

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True ghost stories and other oddities – by region

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Tales from southern Illinois

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Into The World of Edgar Allan Poe

Eating Poe: Part One, Richmond and an Author’s Forward

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Eating Poe, Part II: Edgar Allan Poe’s time on Sullivan’s Island and debunking a Charleston myth

Continue Reading Eating Poe, Part II: Edgar Allan Poe’s time on Sullivan’s Island and debunking a Charleston myth

Eating Poe: Part Three, Poe’s life New York City, where he found fame, tragedy and madness, and I search Il Buco for The Cask of Amontillado

Continue Reading Eating Poe: Part Three, Poe’s life New York City, where he found fame, tragedy and madness, and I search Il Buco for The Cask of Amontillado

Eating Poe: Poe in Baltimore, his last act on the mortal stage, living and dying in the shadow of the sea

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A Christmas ghost story … how a memory and a dream led me to the enchantment of “The Curse of The Cat People”

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Sunset, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

The death, resurrection and retribution of Zona Heaster Shue, The Greenbrier Ghost

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This Old Gothic House II: What are ghosts, what type of ghosts are there, and what types of ghosts do I live with?

A Field Guide to ghosts on Long Island’s North Shore along Rt. 25A, where you find more hauntings per mile than just about anywhere else

The difference between Halloween and Samhain is in the stars and on the calendar

The Witch’s Gardener

On keeping a witch’s garden where we grow witchy herbs, poisons, potions and a moon garden for love in the night.

Explore Our Garden

Witch’s Garden Plants

Witch’s garden plants wicked and otherwise, moon gardens … the history and folklore of botanicals

WItch’s Garden Plants

Belladonna, monkshood, hollyhocks, moon garden plants and more from a witch’s garden

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger): It gave oracles their sight and made witches fly, yellow blossoms on one of the darkest of plants inhabiting a deadly corner of the Witch’s Garden

Continue Reading Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger): It gave oracles their sight and made witches fly, yellow blossoms on one of the darkest of plants inhabiting a deadly corner of the Witch’s Garden

Journal Entry: Spring 2020 in the witch’s garden – on delayed plants, medicinal herbs, fairy garden planning and a warning to reptiles

Continue Reading Journal Entry: Spring 2020 in the witch’s garden – on delayed plants, medicinal herbs, fairy garden planning and a warning to reptiles

Laudanum from the Witch’s Garden: The opiate that drove the romantic poets to enlightenment and insanity

Continue Reading Laudanum from the Witch’s Garden: The opiate that drove the romantic poets to enlightenment and insanity

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What’s blooming in the witch’s garden?

My first Dahlia proves a delicate bloom

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August brings purple and turns the witch’s garden into a moon garden

Continue Reading August brings purple and turns the witch’s garden into a moon garden

Kali blesses the Hibiscus in the Witch’s Garden, July 4

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Shop the Wytchery for literary and artistic love tokens for children of the night

Offering Wyrd and Wanton T-Shirts, Long Sleeve Tees and Hoodies, Books and Fine Art Prints

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From the darkness of Sleepy Hollow to the mystical Catskill Mountains, come along for Haunted Travels In The Hudson River Valley Of Washington Irving 

Exploring folklore, history and American folk horror in New York’s Hudson Valley

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Gothic art from The Wytchery

All the art from the site with hundreds more to choose from.
Fine art prints, stock photography or just come have a look

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