About Eureka Lore Magazine
The Stories Beneath the Surface of Eureka Springs
Eureka Springs has never been an ordinary town. Tucked into the limestone hills of the Ozarks, its winding streets,
historic buildings, springs, caves, cemeteries, forests, and legends create a landscape where history and mystery
seem to exist side by side. Eureka Lore Magazine is devoted to exploring that unusual character.
Published from the heart of the Ozarks, Eureka Lore brings together regional history, folklore, haunted places,
unexplained phenomena, archaeology, ancient mysteries, local traditions, strange encounters, and the people
who keep Eureka Springs’ stories alive.
Our mission is simple: to look beyond the postcard.
We investigate the documented history behind local legends, preserve stories passed through generations,
explore the mysteries that remain unresolved, and examine the folklore that gives the Ozarks their unique
cultural identity. We believe extraordinary claims deserve curiosity, but also careful research. History,
eyewitness testimony, legend, and speculation should be recognized for what they are.
From the historic streets of Eureka Springs to the forgotten hollows beyond town, Eureka Lore Magazine
explores the places, people, mysteries, and stories that make this corner of Arkansas unlike anywhere else.
Because in Eureka Springs, there is always another story beneath the surface.
About F.K Sterling
He is completing a Film and Media Studies degree at Arizona State University, with work in anthropology and art history. That mix is the method. Anthropology taught him to sit with a witness without turning the person into a specimen. Art history taught him that an image on a bluff is an argument, not decoration. Film taught him how a night is built—what the eye is allowed to see, and what the cut conceals. He publishes through Ozark Lore Books, writes from the Harrison–Eureka Springs country, and keeps a studio apartment with his cat, Echo, who has heard more field notes read aloud than any editor.
People have started calling him the Stephen King of the Ozarks, and the label is not a costume. King made Maine a haunted county. Sterling is doing the same thing to the plateau: making Newton County, Carroll County, the Buffalo, Devil’s Den, Lost Valley, and the gravel roads after midnight feel like places that remember you. The difference is that Sterling’s horrors keep one boot in the archive. Cherokee talk of the Moon-Eyed People and the Yunwi Tsunsdi. Bluff Dweller archaeology that found more than it was willing to name. Crop circles in Arkansas wheat. Cattle taken with a precision no coyote owns. Gray figures that do not arrive from a movie poster but from the seam in the rock. He has spent more than twenty-five years walking those seams.
He is completing a Film and Media Studies degree at Arizona State University, with work in anthropology and art history. That mix is the method. Anthropology taught him to sit with a witness without turning the person into a specimen. Art history taught him that an image on a bluff is an argument, not decoration. Film taught him how a night is built—what the eye is allowed to see, and what the cut conceals. He publishes through Ozark Lore Books, writes from the Harrison–Eureka Springs country, and keeps a studio apartment with his cat, Echo, who has heard more field notes read aloud than any editor.
People have started calling him the Stephen King of the Ozarks, and the label is not a costume. King made Maine a haunted county. Sterling is doing the same thing to the plateau: making Newton County, Carroll County, the Buffalo, Devil’s Den, Lost Valley, and the gravel roads after midnight feel like places that remember you. The difference is that Sterling’s horrors keep one boot in the archive. Cherokee talk of the Moon-Eyed People and the Yunwi Tsunsdi. Bluff Dweller archaeology that found more than it was willing to name. Crop circles in Arkansas wheat. Cattle taken with a precision no coyote owns. Gray figures that do not arrive from a movie poster but from the seam in the rock. He has spent more than twenty-five years walking those seams.
EUREKA LORE MAGAZINE
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