Half Man, Half Myth - Storyteller

02/11/2026

My tales for Tu. 17th Nov. at the Airedale Valley Moot, at The Beehive Pub, Shipley, West Yorkshire:

The Song of the Mill: Two giant warrior women are enslaved by Denmark's king and set to turning a huge millstone... but it is no ordinary millstone.

The Short Story of Thithrandri and Thorhall: A tale of the Disir, female ancestresses (whose lunar festival fell this year on the three full moon Winter Nights on 25th - 27th October) and what happens when they sense the coming of Christianity. A tale told in liotha hattr, an Old Norse poetic metre.

The Battle of the Trees: Gwydion ap Don plans a raid upon the otherworld of Annwn but it is our world that is invaded by Arawn, the King of Annwn.

Edric the Wild: The tale of the English resistance leader who fought the Normans came to terms with William I. Later, he marries a bride who is not of human kind. A tale that spans history, legend and myth, told in the Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Line.

The Scorned Queens: Women fight back against the patriarchal culture of the Norse world. A tale from Hrolf's Saga, told in iambic pentameter. The denouement takes place during Yule, when the otherwordly forces are easier to muster!

27/10/2026

These tales will be more than just horror, they will also depict the beliefs of our ancestors in whose honour these tales are told. The last tale is a prose-poem, an evocation of our earliest unwritten forebears.

Master storyteller P D Brown returns to Angels Cut to take us through 5 grotesque and horrifying stories that will make your blood boil!

A night you won’t forget!

Saturday 31st Oct - 7.30pm start. Tickets in bio

22/10/2026

Opening speech...

22/10/2026

This will be on the evening of the Second Full Moon of Winter; the full moon after the full moon of Winter Nights, or Winter-Finding.

21/10/2026

21/10/2026

Event by Darren Hill, P.D. Brown and Folk, Myth & Magick: Airedale Valley Moot. This will be much more than just scary stories, rather it is an exploration of Pagan afterlives and ancestral remembrance.
Beehive 1 Saltaire Road BD18 3HH. Tuesday 17th November '26. 7.00 P.M.-ish.
Public event.
P.D. Brown has lived most of his life in the north of England; between 2003 and 2024, he lived and worked in Aberdeenshire as a Countryside Ranger. Interested from an early age in mythology and Paganism, he has long been fascinated by the power of the spoken and written word, whether this is through oral story-telling, poetry, prose, incantation, rhetoric, song or hypnosis. Since the 1980’s he has been a semi-professional story-teller specialising in ghost and horror stories and pre-Christian tales from the Celtic and Germanic cultures of north-west Europe.
He has written two collections of poetry: ‘Dark Fruit of an Ash – the Pennings of a Ranger-Poet’, poems mainly on various species of trees, birds and animals and more generally on environmental decline; ‘Nine Runes of Mead-Speech’ features poems on Norse mythological themes.
He has previously published 'Thirteen Moons: Reflections on a Heathen Lunar Year'. This sets out the case for the Norse and Anglo-Saxon lunar calendar; there then follow poems and invocations for each of the year's full moons.
He has also co-edited and contributed to: ‘The Rune-Poems: A Reawakened Tradition’.
Both of the above titles were published by Arcana Europa in the U.S.
With Liminal Gate Press he has published ‘Legends Less Sweet’, a collection of northern ghost and folk-horror stories, and ‘Bright-Browed, Oak-Hearted - Myth and Memory of Our Ancient Isles’.

19/10/2026

Two performances, at the Village at Portmeirion for the Mekonvillage weekend extravaganza, on Saturday and two on Sunday and an impromptu performance Sunday afternoon; between 13 and 20 people came to each one. How many had heard a storyteller before? None, I would hazard but they all loved it. This is the problem - getting grown-ups - or "groans" as my friends' son referred to us as - to have a listen.

18/10/2026

An unexpected musical interlude in my telling of The First Branch of The Mabinogi from Jonny 'Guitar' Langford, deep in the woods at Portmeirion!

14/10/2026

This is where I'll be staying for The Mekon Village Festival. I am very pleased and excited to be telling Welsh stories in Gwynedd.!

18/07/2026

Upcoming performances:
7th - 9th August Oakleaf Pagan Camp Ravenstonedale
16th - 18th October Mekonsville Portmeirion
24th or 25th (TBC) October Bede's World Jarrow
31st October Angels Cut Bar Darlington
17th November Airedale Valley Pagan Moot Shipley West Yorkshire.