{"id":4034,"date":"2017-05-18T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2017-08-22T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:59:24","slug":"lovecraft-young-strange-poetries-job-hunt-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/lovecraft-young-strange-poetries-job-hunt-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft for the Young, Strange Poetries & Job-Hunt Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you realise how much is happening in weird, horror and speculative fiction these days? It’s madness! So here’s a brief round-up of some books, a comic and campaigns. Folk horror poetics and photography in North<\/em> from Phil Breach<\/strong> and Tim Turnbull<\/strong>; a neat Lovecraft comic for the younger folk written by Brandon Barrows<\/strong>; Letters of Decline<\/em>, a short themed anthology on horror and the job interview, and the anthology Between Twilight and Dawn.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Once we’re up to date, we’ll follow with some of our traditional longer features and interviews. And more on lurchers and longdogs, of course.<\/p>\n

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Northern Artes<\/h1>\n

We’ve had Phil Breach’s<\/strong> work on greydogtales<\/em> before, with regard to The Arte Mephitic<\/em>, mentioned in detail here: how to survive mephitis<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Arte Mephitic is a dark and lyrical cautionary tale told over 52 rhyming quatrains of iambic pentameter, provides a grim, vivid, magickal account of a man\u2019s search for life eternal, and the depths to which he would plumb to attain it.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs well as drawing inspiration from the works of H P Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, we\u2019ve been using the 1882 publication Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton as an expert guide to crafting an authentic mock chap-book” <\/em><\/p>\n

Now you can see a different side of his poesie, in the brand-new North, <\/em>illustrated with striking photography.<\/p>\n

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‘The Sun, She fled the sky when I was born…’<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNorth\u2026 is now available from Wyrd Harvest Press, a tendril of the mighty Folk Horror Revival. We offer you wicked wolves and f\u00eated scarecrows, sly foxes and seaside sorcerers, all set about with images from a host of talented photographers. Come take a walk on the boreal side\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe eloquent words of two poets brought forth from the land, the lodestone and lodestar. All roads lead here. Join Tim Turnbull and Phil Breach as through poetry, prose and the atmospheric imagery of great photographers,they explore and invoke the physical and emotional landscapes. Head North my friends and don’t look back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Being most decidedly Northern ourselves, we shall be eyeing this collection very carefully, and writing letters of complaint if they got anything wrong. But they probably didn’t, and we’re not even sure if you can get poetry wrong in that way. North can be an Imagined Land, much like the fabled Sou-Thampton, a city in which we don’t really believe. It seems so unlikely that people can live that far from Yorkshire and still retain rational thought…<\/p>\n

As the book comes from Wyrd Harvest<\/em>, the profits from North<\/em> will go towards wildlife projects. And the Lulu<\/em> link below has a bit of a preview feature for a glimpse inside, as well.<\/p>\n

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If you’re into this sort of thing (which we are), do check out Wyrd Harvest’s other publications.<\/p>\n

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We featured the Folk Horror Revival’s<\/strong> excellent Corpse Roads<\/em> in an article last year: on corpse roads bound<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Little Lovecraft<\/h1>\n

We move on to House of Fear: The Grumpledowns Gang and the Case of the Mail-Order Shoggoths<\/em>. A comic for a change, and a Lovecraft inspired one.<\/p>\n

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This is on its Kickstarter campaign right now, and was written by Brandon Barrows<\/strong>, no stranger to some of our listeners. In addition to his comics\/illustrated work, Brandon also wrote The Altar in the Hills<\/em> collection, The Castle-Town Tragedy<\/em> (with our old favourite Carnacki), and has his debut novel This Rough Old World<\/em> coming out later in 2017. The art is by Rafael Loureiro<\/strong>, a Brazilian-based comic book artist and illustrator, and the rest of the team are named in the Kickstarter details.<\/p>\n

\u201cHouse of Fear: The Grumpledowns Gang and the Case of the Mail-Order Shoggoths is packed with adventure, mystery, and monster-fighting action.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this issue, young Ben receives a package of grow-your-own monsters…just add water! When his science teacher flushes them down the toilet, the school is overrun with huge, tentacled monsters with eyes all over the place. Ben and friends must find a way to defeat the beasts before they destroy the school. It’s kids vs. shoggoths!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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