Kirk Amaral Snow

Kirk is an artist and occasional writer with an interest in occult cinema, history, and dark folklore. He spent his younger years chasing bands and ghosts around the abandoned factories, basements, and woods of New England. Now based in the mid-Atlantic, Kirk still seeks out the wyrd edges of local culture.

Art

Peaked Hats and Bubbling Brews: Alewives and the Media Image of Witches

A woman walks through the dusty, grimy, street. It is packed with an immeasurable number of bodies, yet people seeking their ale still find...

Kirk Amaral SnowSeptember 27, 2024

Art

Baltimore’s Catacombs and the Mystery of the Poe Toaster

Walking north along Baltimore’s Greene Street towards Lexington Market, just outside the grounds of the University of Maryland, you might come across an Egyptian...

Kirk Amaral SnowSeptember 25, 2024

Stick hex from Episode 1 of True Detective.

Art

Maybe We Should Turn Back: Stick Hexes in Popular Culture [Part II]

Part II- Trail of the Great Old Ones While the stick hexes of the Blair Witch franchise have a clear lineage, the so-called “devil...

Kirk Amaral SnowApril 27, 2018

Stick Hexes from The Blair Witch Project

Art

Maybe We Should Turn Back: Stick Hexes in Popular Culture [Part I]

Part I – Secret Paths and Magic Alphabets When arriving at the scene, Marty Hart and Rust Cohle walk down the path between the...

Kirk Amaral SnowApril 25, 2018

Bizarre

Demon: The horrors of the past are most present when we have nearly forgot

I am starting this discussion of the film Demon (Poland, 2015) in a different place than when I originally watched it a few months...

Kirk Amaral SnowMarch 28, 2018