MUD AND FLAME
I am pleased to say that I have an essay in this upcoming anthology about the iconic film, Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status. There is a bit more information here.
MORTAL DANGER IN ENCHANTED WATERS
An image dredged from memory came to me the other day: a degenerate being, a creature monstrous and hungry, doll-like, like a beakless platypus with tendrilled hair. I dated the image from sometime in the early nineteen nineties, in Kent near the waters of the Hollow Shore.
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 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 MoreGREENTEETH
You can now watch 'Greenteeth', a short wyrd fiction super-8 film by Adam Scovell, based on my British Fantasy Award-nominated short story of the same name. It follows the gradual disintegration of a woman living on a canal boat in Kensal Green as the folklore of Jenny Greenteeth begins to manifest in a city of rapid redevelopment, rising rents and gentrification. It's an attempt to use folklore and the weird in the service of addressing a real modern problem. Enjoy.
ENTER THE SHADOW BOOTH: INTERVIEW
I was interviewed recently by Jim McLeod for Ginger Nuts of Horror, talking about Hollow Shores, landscape punk, psychogeography, horror, weird fiction and my story in the upcoming anthology, The Shadow Booth
Read the full interview here: http://gingernutsofhorror.com/interviews/enter-the-shadow-booth-an-interview-with-gary-budden
Read MoreTHE MARSH HARRIER
It was the magwitching hour
Sun like soft gold on the tips of the reeds
– ‘The Marsh Harrier’, from Tales of the Hollow Shore, ed. Anon
Read MoreWHITLIT TALK: THE DEAD HAVE BEEN SEEN ALIVE
I realised that everywhere, however small or boring you may first think it, is brimming with narrative, saturated in history, soaked in folklore and legend. It’s worth exploring and it’s worth writing about. You’ll be surprised what you can find.
Read MoreSPIRITS OF PLACE TALK
‘Perhaps it was his love of the mythical past, King Arthur and his knights, that brought him back. Or perhaps he felt as I did, that real change could only be affected in the place that you most understood: home’
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