As an experiment I asked the following question on Twitter: Right: you are all characters/professions/creatures in my vision of a post-apocalyptic England after the Dark Dream has come, where a new society is slowly being built that is a strange mix of pastoral and future-modern. So what…
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 thing we’re going to do at Chanctonbury just after the Morris Men dance at sunrise. Unfortunately…
Read the rest of “Welcoming The May, Chanctonbury Ring, 2018”…
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 Horror. From the beginning I think it’s worth emphasising the fact that I don’t see myself…
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 interesting attention recently. Folk Horror seems to be a nebulous concept to define, even though…
Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: What I need is Brighton people who will dress up in masks like those in the photo [above] and these, and be filmed doing some sort of dark folk-horror dance/performance art/ritual. Performers…
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 - the full piece can be found here) as well as all the admin work that comes with publishing a…
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 voices - with just a couple of exceptions all the sources I cited or quoted were from male authors. This…
Read the rest of “Women’s voices in Folk Horror and Landscape (Part 1)”…
The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. In Oxford next month there’s Spectral Landscapes: Explorations of the English Eerie which is an evening of: …film and discussion showcasing the recent work of Adam Scovell, whose collaborative…
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, emerging progressive radicalism in left wing British politics (and increasing conservatism and…
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 on to give you a hundred more avenues to explore then it’s eerily fantastic. And eerily…