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  1. Book Review: Cloven Country

    You don’t have to travel far in Britain to find that the Devil has left his mark on the landscape. He has raised dykes, built bridges, causeways, and chimneys; left boulders, bolts, and dug ditches. He is the haunter of woods, the president of ghoulish feasts in graveyards. This is the territory, and its associated folklore explored by Jeremy Harte’s Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape (Reaktion Books 2022, 296 pages, Hardback, illustrated).

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    December 30th 2022

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  2. Book Review: Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide

    I was 26 when the Chernobyl disaster occurred, and I well remember my feeling of horror and incredulity as the scraps of information filtered through and friends speculated what effects it might have on the magic mushroom season that year. I grew up in the shadow of the bomb – the three-minute warning, “Protect and Survive” and the War Game. Many of us had half-expected something like Chernobyl was only a matter of time. Over the years I’ve become fascinated with Chernobyl, its history and the mythologies it has spawned. I have spent hundreds of hours exploring the virtual simulacra of the Zone in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R trilogy of games and the two free mods, Lost Alpha and StalkerSoup. These games owe as much to Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 novel “Roadside Picnic” and Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting film “Stalker” as they do to any real events, but if there is any place on earth where the borders of the real and the imaginary might collapse, it is Chernobyl. Continue reading »

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    January 15th 2021

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  3. Book Review: Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd 1 & 2

    I am an unashamed urbanite. For many years now, I’ve been fascinated with the magical dimensions of urban life, with the encounters with the uncanny and strangeness that spring forth, unbidden, during a stroll to the corner shop, in a night walk through the wood. The way a city reveals its multiple hearts through flocks of starlings or in faded graffiti. So when offered the opportunity to review Wyrd Harvest Press’ recent publications, Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd 1 & 2 I jumped at the chance. Continue reading »

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    July 14th 2019

    Posted by in Book reviews, History, Occult, Reviews

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