A detail of The Bride of the Sun (3), from my Acid Renaissance series
: “I haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet, but it’s already on my list of things to watch ASAP, and Rowan Lee’s (relatively spoiler-free) analysis of it in 28 Years Later: Where Folk Horror Meets the…”
: “This blog post is more of a collection of notes than a cohesive article. I wrote it to help guide my own thinking on the subject (I find writing to be a good way to clarify my ideas and identify the…”
Still from Michael Radford’s film version of George Orwell’s novel 1984
: “This blog post is mainly concerned with the overlapping and/or adjacent spheres of hauntology, folk horror, the weird/wyrd, and other related subject areas, but the conclusions can probably be…”
Stills from The Wicker Man, Quatermass TV series, and The Last of England
: “As an experiment I asked the following question on Twitter: …”
: “Sometime towards the end of March Justin Hopper, author of The Old Weird Albion, asked me if I’d like to participate in some way with him and renowned folk musician Sharron Kraus in a ritualistic…”
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Detail from Come Unto the Corn by the author
: “Prompted by some several discussions on Twitter (particularly one thread from author Adrian Bott) prompted by yet another article about Folk Horror films I wanted to set out some thoughts about Folk…”
Detail from the first drawing in the series
: “A few days ago on Twitter I was thinking out loud about the film The Witch, which I watched on Saturday evening, specifically about its relationship to the theme of Folk Horror which is getting some…”
Masks made by the author
: “Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: …”
The Procession, charcoal drawing by the author
: “It’s been a busy few months, and I realise I haven’t been blogging as frequently as last year. The main reasons for this is that I’ve been doing a lot more artwork (such as the drawing above -…”
: “I’ve been going through a number of my blog posts on the subject of the Folk-Horror/Landscape thing that often gets shortened to the “English Eerie” and I noticed a distinct lack of women’s…”
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Detail of one of the author's Badb Catha photographs
: “The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. …”
Photograph by the author
: “I’m typing this in a hotel lobby at the corner of Lexington and East 37th in Manhattan, and I can’t think of anywhere further removed from the subjects on my mind: wilderness, mythic archetypes,…”
Photograph by the author
: “Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…”
The Crow Priestess> (detail) by the author
: “In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: …”
Photograph by the author
: “Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central…”
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