PENGUIN EGGS
Courting is a pleasure.
Read MoreWORDS TO THAT EFFECT
I recommend giving this episode of the Words To That Effect podcast a listen. It's an interesting look at H.P. Lovecraft and weird fiction, featuring some very insightful input on the weird as a genre from the writer Timothy J. Jarvis (whose novel The Wanderer I am currently reading and enjoying very much).
I was humbled to find Hollow Shores named as an example of contemporary weird fiction worth reading, so thanks Tim!
Listen to the podcast here: http://wttepodcast.com/2018/02/12/weird-fiction-hp-lovecraft/
Read MoreJEHOVAHKILL
Going upwards at 45 degrees
Read MoreUNCANNY WATERS
This February and March, I am proud to take part in two evenings of film, stories and music exploring the psychology of life beside the water and its impact on our memories, emotions and sense of history.
Read MorePEREGRINE TATE
Sustain us when we fall.
Read MoreBLACK GOAT OF THE WOODS
Current nightmare soundtrack
Read MoreAT ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, ENFIELD
Strange graves
Read MoreCURRENT LISTENING
The great bloody and bruised veil of this world.
Read MoreFROM DANIEL EIDER'S JOURNAL
I see deformed and furred mastodons on the ice of Doggerland, and I have recurring visions of a blind creator god jerking its arms out towards me by a deserted stretch of the New River Path in the cold days of February. There is too much of London for me to see now, as busy as a work of Hogarth’s, as terrifying as the violent and lonely nights the inmates of Bedlam must have endured.
Read MoreFIVE MERGANSERS
First excursion in the new territory.
Read MoreNARRATING LONDON
“For if you think of it, there is a London cognita and a London incognita.”
– Arthur Machen, The London Adventure
This Wednesday I am very excited to speaking at the NARRATING LONDON event at the Bishopsgate Institute, with Kit Caless and Eley Williams.
Read MoreFrom 'An Exhibition'
At the exhibition
Read MoreMOMUS QUESTIONNAIRE
I was interviewed by the sexy degenerates at Minor Literature(s) for their Momus Questionnaire series – have a read here
Read MoreNEW REVIEW
A great new review to see in the end of 2017 with – thanks to Dickens Does Books:
'“Really weird” is definitely one way to describe this collection, but I would prefer to choose enchanting, haunting or melancholic instead. Indeed, I’ve never read anything like it (and probably won’t again).'
Read the full review here.
REEDS FROM TARMAC, PEGWELL BAY, KENT 26/12/17
There is a sense of corroded history hanging heavy over Pegwell Bay. It is a place of invasion and amnesia, where you once could take a hovercraft to France, crossing the channel in as little as twenty-two minutes. Roman soldiers took their first steps into an alien land here. Vikings are commemorated for landing here. People sift the geological strata for signs the past, as they have done for generations. Once, just without reach of my own lifetime, it must have been a happy place, of arrivals and departures, holidaymakers and couples taking their first trips out of England.
Read MoreWINTER DOWN
The old and the new and the in-between all stand shoulder to shoulder, for now
Read MoreTHE TEMPERATE RAINFOREST
The temperate rainforest began at the bottom of my garden. In the green cathedral, where the bark was furred with fresh green moss and pale lichen, you could get a feel for what this land had once been. No: that was a guess on my part. I was projecting, for how could I truly know?
Read MoreD.A. NORTHWOOD & THE EDEN BOOK SOCIETY
Information concerning a new project I am involved with – the Eden Book Society. I have been helping research information and edit the papers of one of these mysterious authors, the proto-landscape-punk writer D.A. Northwood who lived in north London from the late sixties to the early eighties.
Read MoreNEW LEXICONS UPDATE
It’s been a while since I’ve done a New Lexicons update, mainly for the reason that Hollow Shores is now out in the world! Thanks to everyone who pledged for a copy on Kickstarter, bought a copy at the recent events, came said hello and got your book signed, and generally helped make this book happen. And thanks of course to Dead Ink for making it happen.
Read MoreINFORMATION CONCERNING THE MALACHITE PRESS
The Malachite Press was formed back in 1960. They started out doing reprints with lurid covers of some of the greats: Blackwood, Machen, Nolan, Shrike, before moving into publishing the dark imaginings of contemporary writers who crawled out of the counter-cultural explosion that would come, perhaps erroneously, to define that decade. Malachite Press moved into a form of hard-edged Albionic literature, dealing with myths both ancient and contemporary, rural, urban, and suburban.
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