Wormwoodiana blog browses through an old copy of Mysterious Cheshire from the Earth Mysteries era of the late 1970s and early 1980s and finds a Welsh Marches author…

the ‘Philip Rickman’ who wrote or co-wrote these booklets went on to write, as Phil Rickman, many highly-regarded supernatural fiction novels, including the Merrily Watkins series about a Church of England exorcist and psychic sleuth in the Welsh Border country around Hay-on-Wye.

It’s suggested there was a possible connection between the timing of an antiquarian paper on the ‘Biddlemoor’ population on Biddulph Moor, and Arthur Machen who at that time was musing on relic populations of the Little People. Although such things had been ‘in the air’ for several years before that, re: the establishment of a serious fairy research society and suchlike.

Update: Mysterious Cheshire is now on Archive.org.