Hierophany & Hedge

Name: Hierophany & Hedge
Address: 19 West Pike, Covington, KY, 41011, US
Telephone: +18592612710

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Hierophany & Hedge are purveyors of fine eldritch goods and services including magical reagents, sib

09/03/2026

It is okay to mourn the passing of celebrities that you never met. People can be important to you, even if the relationship is entirely one directional.

To lose Dolly and Frank-N-Furter, Steinem and Optimus all in a couple of weeks is brutal.

We feel all of those, but the one that’s hit us the hardest is the passing of Wendell Berry.

He was a Kentucky writer who made a career of beautifully expressing his love of nature and of traditional agriculture.

He believed people should live closer to the natural world, and that our food should come from small farms, not factories. We’re not sure if he would have used the word “magic,” but that’s what he was talking about in his many essays on plants and farming.

As much as he will be missed, one of the great joys of civilization is that his voice, and the voices of those other talents now lost to us, will endure.

So pour a libation or two out for these lost titans, then listen to Jolene, watch Legend and Transformers (the animated one, obviously), and read some essays by Berry and by Steinem.

And go to a farmer’s market this weekend and buy a vegetable from the human being who grew it.

08/31/2026

Coil went to New York last week looking to meet some vampires, but ended up going home with an emotionally complicated madman who just never wants to go out in daylight.

Thank you so much to the cast of The Lost Boys: A New Musical and of Masquerade for making our Masqueradetrip to see the tarot exhibition at The Morgan Library & MuseuThe Morgan Library & Museum be open this Tuesday (9/1) from 6-8PM, Saturday (9/5) from 12-5PM, and Sunday (9/6) from 12-4PM. We will be closed on Labor Day (9/7).

08/27/2026

Happy (partial) lunar eclipse!

This ~2300 year old tablet records some Babylonian thoughts on such celestial phenomena.

This was written in one of the successor states to Alexander’s Macedonian empire in a sophisticated culture with knowledge of engineering and astronomy as well as thousands of years of religious and magical practice.

All of which is to say that human civilization has been balancing science and magic for a very long time.

Also, take off your damn hat during the eclipse lest you doom us all!!!

08/26/2026

The gutted remains of the old Crosley radio factory remind us of the Detroit ruins we used to crawl through when we had better knees, and when there were fewer security cameras.

All harken back to the decades of triumphant American manufacturing, and all are haunted by the radio static dreams of an analog future that was stolen by flat screens, autonomous vehicles, and venture capital.

The durability of these concrete behemoths is amazing. Despite knowing no love for decades, this building still looks like it’s ready for a fight. We aren’t terribly optimistic about its future, but it would be wonderful to see this bit of Cincinnati history saved and reimagined somehow.

We will be open this Saturday (8/29) from noon until 5pm and Sunday (8/30) from noon until 4pm.

$We enjoy a good haunted house as much as anyone, but they are just a fraction of the supernatural sites worth visiting. ...$

08/19/2026

We enjoy a good haunted house as much as anyone, but they are just a fraction of the supernatural sites worth visiting. Often the very reason a building is haunted is because ghosts are more likely to manifest near places of spiritual power.

Some are inflection points where all of human history pivoted, others are where a single now forgotten soul experienced a joy or sadness so profound that it forever marked the land.

They may have witnessed just one moment of immeasurable wonder or of wretched tragedy, or endured something banal so often that it became transcendent.

They are places where belief elevates experience, where the veil is thin, or where aggregations of art, beauty, or horror exceed the sum of their parts.

These are sites of the monstrous, of the sublime, or of the ridiculous.

Many are marked with elaborate monuments, even if people aren’t always sure what they are commemorating. Others go unnoticed save for the chill they’ll send up your spine.

We had a few dozen places we wanted to visit around Cleveland, but a combination of heat exhaustion and questionable gas station potato wedges cut our trip short . . . so we’ll have to return soon . . .

08/17/2026

Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day!

Baroness would like everyone to know that this holiday makes no sense. Every day should be a day for appreciating black cats, and such appreciation should transcend national boundaries.

We agree.

Open this week on Tuesday (8/18) from 6-8pm, Saturday (8/22) from 12-5pm, and Sunday (8/23) from 12-4pm.

08/10/2026

One of the highlights of our recent trip to Gen Con this year was seeing all the love for the Dungeon Crawler Carl universe. The community showed up with everything from pinball machines to cosplays, and from larger-than-life statues to visits from Soundbooth Theater and Matt Dinniman.

Our girls, who only tolerate crowds on their home turf, decided not to come, but we think they’re a bit jealous of the trip.

They made this little video to try to get the attention of their favorite crawler, the legendary Princess Donut. We’re sure they’d also do great in the crawl, but we doubt we’d ever turn our back on Baroness.

It was also wonderful to finally get to meet ✷ 𝔄𝔲𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔶 𝔅𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔢𝔫 ✷ in person and to catch up with Scott Murphy , Elisabeth Elvira Alba , and all the other wonderful artists there that we’ve worked with over the years.

Also, all our hats (and masks) off to the incredible King in Yellow we exchanged cryptic gestures with by the dice. We just can’t stop thinking about you. Hmmm, that might be a problem.

Open this week Wednesday (8/12), Saturday (8/15) from 12-5PM, and Sunday (8/16) from 12-4PM.

08/04/2026

We grew up loving pixelated adventure games like King’s Quest, Maniac Mansion, and Monkey Island.

They demanded creativity, rewarded careful risk-taking, and encouraged elaborate imagined backstories.

They still live in our heads. Our home and shop constantly make us wonder what tools from our inventory might open the portal in our grandfather clock, and what offering might move the cat off the sleeping demon princess.

The magnificently talented Rachel Ham created this illustration of the shop to remind you all to stock up on magic items that might be useful later! Unclipped prints of this design will be available in the shop!

You never know when you’re going to wish you had pie for a bear guarding a bridge.

(Just in case anyone was wondering, we loved these games, but were terrible at them.)

This weekend is also the second annual Arcade Music Fest . It’s centered around the tunnel right next to our building, so a trip to see us will also afford a chance to see live music and enjoy food and beverage trucks!

Open this Tuesday (8/4) from 6-8pm, Saturday (8/8) from 12-5pm, and Sunday (8/9) from 12-4pm.

08/01/2026

Happy birthday to these marvelous creatures who share their home and shop with us.

We don’t have enough superlatives to describe our love, so here is a kitten flashback!!!

07/28/2026

While somehow the prideful month of June is almost a month behind us, sapphic vampires are always in fashion at Hierophany & Hedge.

Long before Dracula arrived at Whitby, Carmilla was making English ladies swoon, and Victoria “V.E.” Schwab keeps the tradition alive with her “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.” We loved this book, but you don’t have to take our word for it as Siswrn has it covered on her Hey! Read this. Podcast podcast.

Those looking for something more academic can sink their teeth into “Killing the Dead,” an incredible review of the enduring historical fear of Nosferatous infestations.

Or you could ask those vampires and all of their monstrous friends for some advice on your future with the eternally popular Horror Tarot by Abigail Larson

We also, of course, have vampire themed materials for children and kittens.

We are closed most of this week for our annual floor cleansing, oiling, and enchantment, but will be open Saturday (8/1) from 11AM to 5PM for the covingtondays festival, Lughnasadh, and the birthday celebration for Murderpaws and Baroness.

Address

19 West Pike
Covington, KY
41011

Telephone

+18592612710

Website

http://hierophanyandhedge.com/

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