Quick Specs
- Brand: Llewellyn Publications
- Format: Wall calendar, 16 months
- Months Covered: Last four months of 2026, then January to December 2027
- Artwork: Alchemy, 12 gothic artworks
- Edition: Dead of Night, 50 Years of Alchemy (1977 to 2027)
- Dimensions: 12 x 12 in closed
- Pages: 24
- ISBN-13: 9780738778020
Twelve Artworks From Alchemy’s Fiftieth Year
The 2027 calendar carries a gold anniversary seal on the cover and the title Dead of Night. The cover artwork sets a pale, closed-eyed woman inside a ring of dark purple roses, thorned vines wound around her throat, a red heart jewel at her collar and a black rose held to her chest in long-nailed hands. The month pages keep that mood. January, titled The Name of the Rose, shows a woman in a purple corset and lace sleeves lifting a silver goblet in a stone cloister where light falls through the arches. February brings a bird skull crowned with roses above a stormy sea full of ravens. December closes the year with a woman in a holly mask and antlers, wrapped in a red hooded cloak, a glowing star between her hands against a snowy landscape. The back cover previews the rest: a skeletal figure hauling a coffin, a serpent coiled into a treble clef, a dragon in a storm and a black cat before a clock face marked with a pentagram.
Each month of 2027 gives its upper portion to the artwork and its lower portion to a framed date grid, set under an ornate banner that reads 1977 on one side and 2027 on the other, with a 50 Years emblem at its center. The title of every artwork is printed beneath its grid, so you can look up a piece by name, and the frame repeats on every month, so the artworks change while the grid stays familiar. The palette shifts as the year turns: jewel purples and candlelit stone in January, teal storm water in February, a furnace of orange behind the serpent in July, holly green and wintry red at the close. A recyclable paper flap holds the calendar closed, and the paper is FSC-certified and printed with soy-based ink. The last four months of 2026 come before January, so the calendar is ready to hang as the autumn begins. Because the artworks are large and the date boxes modest, this is a calendar chosen for the wall.
Practical Ritual Applications
Hang it where dark art already lives in your home, a hallway, a reading corner or beside an altar, and hang it in September so it is ready before the year turns. Use the date boxes for short entries: an appointment time, a birthday, a moon date copied from your own lunar calendar. The pages share one framed style, so turning to a new month works as a small change of mood in the room, from the cloister light of January to the storm sky of February and the holly red of December. If an artwork stays with you after its month ends, flip back to it on a quiet evening; every month carries a full artwork with its title. For more pieces with the same atmosphere, browse my home decor collection.
How to Set Up a Sixteen-Month Gothic Calendar
Three decisions at the start keep the calendar useful from September onward.
- Choose the wall first
Pick a spot with a clear run of wall, because the artwork hangs directly above the date grid and the two read as one tall panel. Hang it from the top center at eye level so the grid, which sits in the lower half, stays easy to read. A hallway or stairwell works well, since you pass it every day and see each new artwork.
- Begin on the first 2026 page
Turn to the last four months of 2026 and start there. Pencil your entries lightly. The boxes are compact, so short notes fit best: a time, a name, a place. Keep a pencil on a string beside the calendar so the habit sticks through the autumn.
- Add the dates you follow
The grid carries date numbers, so add the days you track yourself. Copy in moon dates from your lunar calendar, mark the sabbats you keep, and circle birthdays. Use one small symbol for each kind of date so the boxes stay readable. When January arrives, glance back at your marks to confirm your system still works.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock this calendar because buyers of earlier Alchemy calendars write that they pick one up every year, and the fiftieth anniversary edition is built to be looked at: large artworks, a title for each, and a date grid that stays out of the way. It suits a gothic art collector, a dark-aesthetic home, or a gift for someone who would hang ravens and roses. For a calendar that also tracks lunar dates and sabbats, my almanacs and calendars collection has several.
Frequently Asked Questions
Open and hung, it makes one panel about 12 inches wide and 24 inches tall, with the artwork above and the date grid below. Plan the wall for the full height, plus a few inches of clearance above the hanging point so the pages can flip up. Closed, it's a flat 12 inch square.
Sunday. The January, February and December sample pages all run Sunday through Saturday. Reviewers of the previous year's Alchemy calendar noticed the same Sunday-first layout and said they missed the old Monday start, so if you track a Monday-first week, pencil a small mark over the Sunday column before you hang the calendar.
A little. Each month has five rows of open boxes below the artwork, roughly an inch and a half across and an inch tall on the 12 inch page. That fits a time and a name. One reviewer of last year's Alchemy calendar said the month charts had shrunk and left little room for notes, so if you write a lot, keep a datebook for the details and let this calendar hold the key dates.
The publisher says the calendar includes major holidays and observances and doesn't mention Moon phases. The sample pages for January, February and December carry date numbers only, so don't count on every holiday or Moon phase being printed. For Moon dates, copy them from a lunar calendar into the boxes you want to remember.
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