1. 300 Fox Way Throw Pillow, designed by Emgrav
Pay homage to your favourite found family of psychics with this beautifully designed throw pillow. This design is reminiscent of the neon signs that are seemingly ubiquitous with local psychic shops. The minimalist design is simple and will be a wonderful addition to nearly every style of home decor.

2. Noah Czerny Art Print, designed by Louise Delfin
Our favourite ghost with the most, Noah Czerny deserves a place of honour on your wall. This hauntingly beautiful print places our favourite murder victim in shades of green that remind us of Cabeswater, the forest where he met his untimely death. 

3. You Are Made of Dreams Pillowcase Set
If you missed the Call Down the Hawk OwlCrate, fret not as most of the items are still available for individual purchase. This stunning set of two matching pillowcases designed by Stella Bookish Art is sure to ensure that you have nothing but sweet dreams as you sleep on them. Sadly, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to pull things out of those dreams upon waking.

4. Dream Raven Pendant Necklace
This OwlCrate exclusive will let you bring along your favourite dream raven, Chainsaw, with you wherever the ley lines take you. This simple pendant features a raven sitting atop a human skull (perhaps the skull of a long since dead Aglionby boy) and is strung on a mid length chain. Whether you’re a fan of The Raven Cycle, Poe, or just have a love of the morbid, this is the jewellery you want delicately placed around your neck.

5. Dreamer Beanie
While it’s still summer, it’s never too early to start buying Christmas presents, and this Dreamer Beanie is sure to keep you warm throughout the winter months. Or, if you work from home or in an office that keeps the temperature at just above freezing all year round, why not give yourself an added layer of protection for your work day?

6. Ley Lines Socks
Remember when you were young and hated getting socks as gifts? Well these are no pack of 6 pair white crew cut boring socks. These socks feature a repeating ley line symbol on a neutral grey background that truly goes with everything. As an added bonus, the bottom of the sock features a surprise Pynch quote for all you shippers out there.

7. Ley Lines candle by Rose and Adder
While giving candles as a gift can be seen as cliche, who can turn down a candle that smells like your favourite book? Light up this candle as you reread The Raven Cycle and Call Down the Hawk. With top notes of rain and ozone, middle notes of grass, geranium, & rose, and bottom notes of sandalwood & musk, you’ll be aromatically transported to the ley lines of Henrietta.

8. Cabeswater Bookish Soy Candle
The second recommendation of our trilogy of candles is the Cabeswater candle by Novelly Yours. This candle has scents of cotton trees, the great outdoors, meadows, rain and just a small touch of lavender. Once lit, you’ll feel all the soothing calm of Cabeswater.

9. Raven Cycle Inspired Soy Vegan Candle
“Once, Gansey had overhead his father saying, Why in the world did he even want that car? and his mother replying, Oh, I know why. One day he would find an opportunity to bring up that conversation with her, because he wanted to know why she thought he had bought it. Analyzing what motivated him to put up with the Camaro made Gansey feel unsettled, but he knew it had something to do with how sitting in this perfectly restored Peugeot made him feel. A car was a wrapper for its contents, he thought, and if he looked on the inside like any of the cars in this garage looked on the outside, he couldn’t live with himself. On the outside, he knew he looked a lot like his father. On the inside, he sort of wished he looked more like the Camaro. Which was to say, more like Adam.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

If there is one item in The Raven Cycle that represents the magical, loveable, and broken band of Raven Boys, it’s Gansey’s Camaro. This candle will bring the smell of the Raven Boys to you: Gasoline, Motor Oil and Leather, somehow balanced enough to be atmospheric instead of overpowering. BriarWick has a gift for making candles that tell a story, and if the reviews are any indication, you won’t be disappointed by this purchase.

10. MONMOUTH Slim Fit T-Shirt, designed by Emgrave

Monmouth Manufacturing is the de facto headquarters of the Raven Boys and home to Gansey and Noah. The former factory is steeped in mystery and is described as a dilapidated exterior that houses within the expanded study of a great explorer or anthropologist or mad social scientist. The building is filled with stacks of books and papers, trinkets found in Gansey’s travels, and of course the bits of personal life that make Monmouth Manufacturing a home. Join the Raven Boys with your own shirt proclaiming yourself to be a part of the history of Monmouth.

11. Cabeswater Henrietta Virginia Classic T-Shirt, designed by starsocks
While we may not be able to visit Cabeswater, we can buy a T-Shirt and pretend we have. This shirt features art reminiscent of vintage postcards and old national park posters. This shirt is fashionable enough to become a regular part of any wardrobe and sure to have people ask about your travels to Cabeswater.

12. Aglionby Academy Pullover Sweatshirt, designed by redhales
We can’t all attend a fictional all boys private school in rural Virginia, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look like we attend a fictional all boys private school in rural Virginia. If that aesthetic appeals to you, this is the sweatshirt for you. Pair it with a button up underneath for Big Gansey Energy.

13. Safe As Life Gansey Bee Mask, designed by sarjack223
Gansey’s quote has never been quite as accurate as it is right now. Let’s be honest, we all need more masks right now, and why not feature a quote that doubles as a reference to The Raven Cycle and a succinct way to express the world’s mutual anxiety?

14. Pynch Pin, designed by AkiMao
This Pynch Pin honours the ship that serves as the Raven Cycle universe’s lynchpin. Get it? Pynch Pin, lynchpin? But in all sincerity, the love between Ronan and Adam holds The Raven Cycle together and will likely be a large focus throughout the Dreamer Trilogy. Why not treat yourself to a pin that captures one of the most iconic moments in The Raven Cycle?

15.  The Raven King iPhone Case & Cover, designed by saintdri
You can never have too many phone cases, and this case (also available to fit other brands of phones) is no exception. Richard Campbell Gansey III stole my heart and likely yours too. Who doesn’t love a wunderkind world traveler obsessed with Welsh Kings? This design by Saintdri harkens to Gansey’s depths, on the outside he is charming in the way a world leader is charming, but within, Gansey is filled with anxiety and obsession that plague him like a murder of ravens.

Do any of these gifts call out to you? Do you have any recommendations? Sound off in the comments below!

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More than a year ago it was announced that the beloved Raven Cycle series would be made into a TV show, which led to the fans freaking out. It even surprised the author herself, who did not know that this big secret was ready to be shared with the world. The show will air on the US network, Syfy, and UCP will produce the series—the same team who work on The Magicians. The pilot episode will be directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who is best known for directing the first Twilight movie.

I thought this was still a secret, but I GUESS NOT ANYMORE. https://t.co/TTbPVGdu3Y

— Maggie Stiefvater (@mstiefvater) April 10, 2017

RT if you’re psyched about the Raven Cycle TV show on @SYFY

— Maggie Stiefvater (@mstiefvater) September 22, 2017

Since then, no information was given and the world is waiting for casting announcements, first set pictures, and so on. That being said, the series is definitely still in the works with Stiefvater constantly being asked questions about the series on her social media. You may be asking, what is the story about and why should you read and later watch it? Read on and you will learn why you definitely should!

I’ve been told by psychics my whole life that if I kiss my true love, I’ll kill him.

The Raven Cycle, or often called The Raven Boys by fans, is a book series of four books written by Maggie Stiefvater. The series introduces you to Blue Sargent, a 17-year-old daughter of a psychic mother, and she lives in a house with her two psychic aunts, but has no similar power herself. One day four boys from the all-boys private school called Aglionby Academy, also known as The Raven Boys, walk into Nino’s, the restaurant Blue works in as a waitress to earn money for college.

Blue cannot believe it. One of the boys is destined to die soon. Why does Blue know that? Because she saw his ghost on her latest ghost watch with her aunt. Driven by this, she befriends them and finds out that the group wants to find the sleeping Welsh king Glendower, who they believe is hidden in the magical forest that surrounds their hometown.

The Raven Boys is the first book in the contemporary fantasy series, which was published in 2012. Followed by The Dream Thieves in 2013, Blue Lily, Lily Blue in 2014, and the series finished with The Raven King in 2016.

On March 1st 2018, Stiefvater released an e-book short story about Ronan, one of the boys, and it has been announced that a spin-off trilogy is in the making, which will focus on him.

What makes the books special and unique is the way Stiefvater tells it alongside the placement of the characters. She intertwines myths and creates intriguing characters that I have personally not seen in another stories as of yet.

Let’s take a closer look at the characters!

Fate is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Blue has never had it easy. Being born into a psychic family and having no powers of her own is not easy to handle. But after seeing a boy’s ghost in the cemetery, she does not understand anything anymore. Through helping the boys with their task, Blue finds out that she can amplify the energy of other psychics and supernatural beings. At first she sees all the boys as her friends, but later finds more feelings in her heart for Gansey. But, she cannot ever love him, because she is destined to kill the boy she loves the moment she kisses him.

Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey’s greatness.

Richard “Dick” Campbell Gansey III, or just Gansey, comes from a wealthy family and almost died seven years ago by a bee sting. After, he recovered from his near death experience he is obsessed with finding the sleeping Welsh King Glendower, who he believes saved his life and who can grant a wish. He is the leader of the Raven Boys and has a big heart for his friends. He cares for each and every one of them and would do anything for them. Among those he loves is also his old Camaro he calles Pig.

I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.

Ronan Lynch is the opposite of Gansey. He has his whole back is covered in tattoos and he is more of an introvert. He didn’t have an easy childhood with his mother in a coma and without a loving father. After his father’s murder, he and his brothers were forbidden to ever enter the house again. Due to this, he can never visit his mother who still resides there. He is called Greywaren by the magical forest surrounding their hometown called Cabeswater. Greywaren describes a person who can take things out of their dreams and that is how he got his Raven Chainsaw. However, Ronan is a character with more than just one secret.

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

Adam Parrish is able to attend the private school thanks to a scholarship. He comes from a family with financial problems and lives in a trailer park with his mother and abusive father. Later in the story he is able to press charges against him and move out into an apartment above St. Agnes church. Adam sacrifices his free will to Cabeswater and promises to fix the ley lines and help restore them. Never has he experienced love through his family, but he later finds it when he least expects it.

You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.

The last of the Boys, but not the least is Noah Czerny. Noah is the one who in a way needs the others the most, because Noah is dead. He died on the same day as Gansey, but he actually stayed dead. He was used as a sacrifice by his old latin professor to wake up the ley lines and Noah is stuck and needs to be near the ley lines to be seen by the others.

In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their Magic. Their Quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her Raven Boys.

A few spoilers ahead, but the first book obviously introduces all of our characters and gets the story into motion, while the second focuses on Ronan more and his ability. A hitman is after the Greywaren, which happens to be him. Ronans learns more about his family legacy and that he is not the only one who can take things out of his dreams. Because he is exhausts the power of the forest and it disappears. Adam successfully restores the ley lines and the forest comes back. However, they cannot celebrate that, because Blue’s mother disappears.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue focuses on finding Blue’s mother and brings her father into the picture and the final book is packed with one shocking scene after another and ultimately results in finding the Welsh King.

Maggie Stiefvater is the master of unique storytelling. She uses mythology that has not been used often or never and makes her own thing of it.

Cross your fingers that we will see soon the first pictures of an old brick stone warehouse with the name “Monmouth Manufacturing” on it, then you can expect to see diverse characters with realistic development with a deep complex history and sad stories. There are so many details in these four books that could fuel a TV show for a couple of seasons!

So let the stalking begin! Check out Maggie Stiefvater’s website and be sure to start following her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

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