Uncanny Research, Arcane Curiosities, & Beer
Welcome to the corner of Steve's world, where mainstream mythology meets legend and lore with a healthy side of supernatural factoids and beer pics.
Pull up a chair. Have a drink. Just don't spill anything in here. Seriously.
New posts about weird stuff I learned about on the internet,
plus other things entirely different.
May 15, 2026
King Solomon. The wisest man who ever lived. Given dominion over demons, djinn, and angels alike. And then he lost it all for love...
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May 13, 2026
East of Eden. The Land of Wandering. One sentence. Twenty words. And then the text just — moves on. Like it didn't drop one of the most tantalizing geographical references in history...
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May 13, 2026
The language was just the beginning. John Dee, the Golden Dawn, Crowley in the desert—and the Abyss. Four centuries of practitioners who've come back changed or didn't come back at all...
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May 4, 2026
John Dee spent years transcribing messages from angels through a con man. The result was a complete magical system in a language that supposedly hadn't been spoken since Eden...
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May 4, 2026
Two hundred angels. Forbidden children. Cosmic consequences. When human intervention stopped being enough...
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May 1, 2026
Ancient watchers. Forbidden knowledge. Catastrophic decisions. Turns out celestial beings can make terrible choices too...
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SubscribeMischief & Lore is Steve Gilmore's blog—a corner of the internet where mythology gets questioned, monsters get investigated, and perfectly respectable research occasionally wanders into mischief. It's where fantasy research meets ridiculous observations, writing updates meet supernatural rabbit holes, and the occasional beer-adjacent wisdom gets shared. This blog draws from the themes, lore, and strange ideas that find their way into Steve Gilmore's urban fantasy books, including the Heaven's Dark Soldiers series and the Purgatory Knights series.
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