Cunning Folk Media

Cunning Folk Media was founded to publish rigorous, earnest investigations into the anomalous, the esoteric, and the genuinely strange. We believe the weird deserves serious thinking — not to debunk it, and not to celebrate it uncritically, but to examine it with intellectual honesty and scholarly depth.

Our catalog spans twelve distinct content pillars, from Esoteric History and Secret Societies to Parapsychology, Occult Biographies, and Bold Cultural Theory. Each book is selected for its rigor, originality, and contribution to the ongoing conversation about consciousness, meaning-making, and the limits of the known.

Based in Portland, Oregon. Independent since founding.