Truffle Standbee

About this myth and folklore journal

Who writes these legends, how each story is researched, and why we choose to tell it.

A small desk scattered with old books, sketches of ancient statues, and open notebooks
Why we started telling these tales

Four storytellers, one shared notebook

We kept trading the same old legends after every trip to a dusty archive or forgotten village, scribbling the same tales into margins and emails, until we admitted we'd built something more than a hobby. The first collection of retold myths went out to eleven friends who asked for more, and we never stopped gathering stories after that.

A writer reading an old book of folklore by a window
How a legend gets told

Heard first, written second

Every story we publish begins with an oral account, a weathered old book, or the inscription on an ancient statue, and it is checked against at least one other telling before it reaches the page. If a legend cannot survive being traced back to a second source, a second village, a second grandmother's version, it does not make it into print.

How we research

Three rules we never break

01

No secondhand detail

Nothing gets described unless one of us has read the original text or seen the ancient statue ourselves.

02

Admit what we got wrong

The dead ends stay in the story. They are usually the most useful part of how a myth survives.

03

Corrections, out in the open

Mistakes get corrected right on the page, with a note explaining what changed and why.

Two tales a month, nothing more

One long retelling of a legend and one short note from the archive, sent out the morning they're ready.

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