{"id":1590,"date":"2016-04-03T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2016-04-09T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T10:58:21","slug":"michael-hutter-interviewed-carcosa-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/michael-hutter-interviewed-carcosa-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hutter Interviewed: Carcosa and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are great enthusiasts of weird, surreal and magical art here, as all our loyal listeners know. We have no disloyal listeners, as they were given a free tour of Mrs Gumworthy’s Meat Pie Factory, and unaccountably disappeared around that time.<\/p>\n

So it’s our great pleasure to welcome German surreal artist Michael Hutter<\/strong><\/span> to the site, especially as his\u00a0 range of stunning illustrations includes the Carcosa<\/em> cycle, a theme which crosses into so many works of strange fiction.<\/p>\n

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carcosa II, hutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before we interview him, we should say a little about Carcosa itself, Pre-eminent among the authors who have written of this haunted city are the Father of Carcosa, Ambrose Bierce<\/strong> (1842-1913?), the Master of the Yellow Sign Robert W Chambers<\/strong> (1865- 1933), and of course H P Lovecraft<\/strong> and his inheritors.<\/p>\n

(The question-mark by Bierce’s date of death is due to his disappearance, with a last supposed letter dated December 1913. There is still no satisfactory explanation of when – or indeed where – Bierce died.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"carcosa<\/a>
carcosa XI, hutter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If there is a beginning to our trail today, then it lies in An Inhabitant of Carcosa<\/em>. This story by Bierce was first published in the San Francisco Newsletter<\/em> in 1886, and then included as part of his collection Can Such Things Be in<\/em>1887. It’s a short piece, and appears at first to be about a man who awakens from sickness to find himself in an unfamiliar landscape. You’ll have to read the story to grasp what else might be implied. It can be found online – one link which usually work is here:<\/p>\n

an inhabitant of carcosa<\/a><\/p>\n

Alternatively you can listen to an audio version:<\/p>\n