{"id":1000,"date":"2016-01-20T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2016-05-06T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:51:24","slug":"the-rural-and-the-mystic-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/the-rural-and-the-mystic-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rural and the Mystic Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome, dear souls. For your delight – rural horror, a mythic film and an M R James<\/strong> card game. You find us in the middle of interviewing the Great and Good across the land. Between planning searing expos\u00e9s, and hauling longdogs through endless mud, we’re feeling our age. And there’s writing to do, of course. So this is one of our traditional mid-week medleys \u2013 traditional except when we forget and do them on a weekend.<\/p>\n

Longdog<\/strong> news<\/strong> is thin on the ground this afternoon, apart from the fact that Django<\/strong><\/span> has taken to rushing out into the garden at two in the morning and barking madly for no apparent reason. As he is normally a no-bark zone, this has us puzzled. Either the garden is filled with a malign presence which threatens our very reality, or the local cats are trying it on. If we become hollow shells filled only with the desire to corrupt and defile, we will know the answer. We will have become cats ourselves.<\/p>\n

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Weird news<\/strong>, on the other hand, is plentiful. Our first mention goes to the endless saga that is our attempt to write about scary tales author, H R Wakefield<\/strong>. Never has an article divided our brain cells so dramatically. However, we did find something very interesting from old HRW which touches nicely on folk-horror and the supernatural in rural settings:<\/p>\n

\u2018And don\u2019t despise the rustic intelligence,\u2019 exclaimed Palliser. \u2018Its apparent sluggishness is often a sly pose. Those who divide the peasant often get a rude awakening, for there is a virtue and a mystery in his fields and streams unknown to the Nathans of Throgmorton Street. Frankly, the country often puts the wind up me, the Townee\u2019s uneasy sense of intrusion. There is always something highly charged and formidable about the primitive. As we drove down today, we passed a wide meadow running up to the margin of a wood. There was a scarecrow in the middle of it\u2014I never quite like scarecrows. If some mocking fellow who knew his runes dressed one and whispered in his ear as he set him up, he might scare more than birds. I wondered if that\u00a0dr\u00f4le\u00a0in the field there was such a one. If so,\u2019 he went on excitedly, \u2018I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d like to walk out to him on a not quite dark night, fancying, perhaps, he had beckoned, so that you felt you had to pay him a visit. And when you reached him, gingerly tilting up his battered billycock, and\u2014well, what might you find underneath, and how would you address such a one?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

H R Wakefield, The Alley (1940)<\/em><\/p>\n

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And we will be having folk-horror features on and off over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

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The 77 Pages<\/h4>\n

Our second delight is from someone who is rapidly becoming the greydogtales<\/em> Argentinian editor, Diego Arandojo<\/strong><\/span> of Lafarium<\/em>. His film Las 77 Paginas<\/em>, made in collaboration with Mauro Savarino<\/strong>, is now available for the first time with English subtitles. This 40 minute film is a fascinating mixture of myth, mysticism and fantasy which is hard to describe. It is at times surreal, at times quite moving.<\/p>\n

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Adapted from the official site:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Earth is in a dangerous geologic process: all the continents are moving back to the original Pangaea position, the first continent that arose more than 200 billion years ago. This will end in the extinction of the human race\u2026 A group called The Necessary Council presents itself before the UN, claiming to have the key for the salvation of the Humanity: a strange book of indeterminate age, which possesses on its pages the great secrets of the History and Science.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Made primarily in Spanish, Las 77 Paginas<\/em> nevertheless includes Hebrew, Mandarin, Latin and other languages, and has a weird vibe all of its own. We feel it proper to say that Las 77 Paginas<\/em> is available to purchase as a DVD, so if you’re feeling virtuous, you should have a hunt around at:<\/p>\n

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There is a lot of weird and fascinating stuff there. Gradual Hate Records was founded in order to provide a breeding ground for Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Medieval, Dark Folk, Dark Ambient and Industrial music and related genres in Spain and the World.<\/p>\n

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\nNaturally, if you want to see what you might be getting, we have the English subtitle version right here, but don’t forget to support the creators if you find yourself into the scene.<\/p>\n