Black shuck art

Black dog

El arte de la fantasía-La llegada del terror.

Tim Fox-Godden is friend who prints and illustrates, he also originates from the same area of Norfolk as me, he strolls down many of the same psychological byways and holloways as me and occasionally our paths cross. He has produced this rather lovely linocut as a response to the re-ignition of his own personal relationship

Dogs have been companions to humans for centuries, but little do people know how some of them defied physics, contributed to extremely important scientific discoveries or simply - through the combination of nature and anomalies - stretched our sci-fi imaginations far beyond the limits of even Philip K. Dick. Here's a rundown of some scientific, non-fiction cases of famous dogs that you might not have heard about. 10. Xinxiang, the Runaway Pig Dog It takes a lot to make stoic China flinch…

The Black Shuck, Shuck coming from the old English word for devil or fiend and is essentially considered a nocturnal specter from the folklore of the British Isles. It was first recorded in print i…

“Beware, trucking newbies, you’re not the first and you won’t be the last to hear about Large Marge....” -- the travelers' folk tales of trucking and their roots in European lore.

Black Shuck

Spectral black dogs, or Black Shuck, haunt the English countryside. But the stories vary as you travel around. How? Click here to learn more.

In English folklore, Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, one of many such black dogs recorded in folklore across the British Isles.

Even within the realm of cryptozoology and Forteana, there are creatures that seem to defy easy classification. To me there is absolutely a distinct line between the field of cryptozoology, which by definition deals with undiscovered organisms which are real, flesh and blood animals, that of paranormal phenomena, and that of folklore. While they may

I've been thinking about black Shuck this week, the huge black dog with red eyes that haunts the Suffolk and Norfolk lanes. This is my drawing of him. The first drawing I did reduced black shuck to looking like a cross highland terrier, but you have to start somewhere. This black shuck I've done looks like he's bringing up a fur ball but it's all a work in progress. I love these folk tales and legends. We had a week without hot water, fortunately before the second cold snap started. I can't…

Image of the Hellhound Introduction Legends and tales about phantom Black Dogs occur aplenty in the British Isles and elsewhere (Parkinson, 2011). Indeed, though primarily British phenomenon…