THE URBAN WYRD

Once again those good folks from the Folk Horror Revival have produced another massive, but reasonably priced, two volume tome. These books step away from the haunted fields and furrows of their previous investigations and explorations, and explore the stangness of streets and towns, the spectral landscapes of our cities. 

Once again, I have made a contribution to this epic project, a length history and examination of Ghostwatch, exploring the genesis and history of this infamous piece of Halloween TV and how the programme Ghostwatch  and its aftermath became a something of legendary ghost story in itself. 

Also like the previous companion volumes (all available here), all profits go to wildlife and conservation charities. So then you are not only getting massive books filled with world class articles but a host of famous names but also helping preserve our marvellous countryside and wildlife.

Full details for  both volumes are as follows! 

Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd -1. Spirits of Time

• Foreword

• Urban Wyrd: An Introduction by Dr Adam Scovell

• Spectral Echoes: Hauntology’s Recurring Themes & Unsettled Landscapes by Stephen Prince

• Quatermass and the Pit: Unearthing Archetypes at Hobb’s End by Grey Malkin

• The Haunted Generation: An Interview with Bob Fischer

• On a Thousand Walls: The Urban Wyrd in Candyman by Howard David Ingham

• Protect and Survive: Dystopian Drama – A Jolly British Apocalypse by Andy Paciorek

• The Bad Wires: Reflections on The Changes by Grey Malkin

• The Hands of Doom: A Short Perspective on Divine Intervention by Leah Crowley

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Spiritualist Missionary by Jim Peters

• A Tandem Effect: Ghostwatch by Jim Moon

• Interview with Stephen Volk

• The Cookstown Ghost: Poltergeist Phenomenon in Urban Ulster in the Nineteenth-Century by Jodie Shevlin

• The Last Key That Unlocks Everything: Ghost Stories by Andy Paciorek

• A Very Urban Haunting …The Echo of Noisy Spirits by Jim Peters

• These Houses Are Haunted: Supernatural Dwellings in Film by Andy Paciorek

• The Photography of Carmit Kordov

• Wyrd Technology by Andy Paciorek

• Voices of the Ether: Stone Tapes, Electronic Voices and Other Ghosts by James Riley

• Urban Witchcraft by Darren Charles

• Video Nasty: Moving Image in The Ring and Sinister by Andy Paciorek

• An Interview with Richard Littler – Mayor of Scarfolk

• The World Falling Apart: Jubilee by Stuart Silver

• Doll Parts: Marwencol by Andy Paciorek

• Chocky: The Haunting of Matthew Gore by Grey Malkin

• The Sun on my Face: Demon Seed by Andy Paciorek

• The Photography of Sara Hannant

• A Hive Mind: Phase IV by Andy Paciorek

• Wired For Sound: The Auditory in Horror by Andy Paciorek

• “We Want You to Believe In Us, But Not Too Much”: UFOs and Folklore by S. J. Lyall

• A Space Flower: Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Andy Paciorek

• Under The Skin of the Man Who Fell To Earth by Andy Paciorek

• Silent Invasions by SJ Lyall

• I Am Not A Number: The Prisoner by Stuart Silver

• All For the Hunting Ground: Wolfen by S.J. Lyall

• Urban Wolves by Richard Hing

• Reclaiming the “f” word. A conversation between The Black Meadow’s Chris Lambert and Pilgrim’s Sebastian Baczkiewicz

• Sounds from a Haunted Ballroom: The Caretaker by Andy Paciorek

• Uncanny Valley: Spielberg’s A.I. by Damian Leslie

• Sounds and Visions: MKUltra, Number Stations, Hallucinogens and Psychological Experiments in Film by Andy Paciorek

• Concrete, Flesh, Metal, Blood: The Worlds of Ballard & Cronenberg by Andy Paciorek

• The Eternal Snicket by Professor Phillip Hull (From an interview with Chris Lambert)

• The Voice of Electronic Wonder: The Music of Urban Wyrd by Jim Peters

• Age of the Train: Rail and the Urban Wyrd by Andy Paciorek

• Mind The Doors: Death Line by S.J. Lyall

• Step Away From The Meat: The Midnight Meat Train by Andy Paciorek

• Evil Dream: Q The Winged Serpent by Scott Lyall

• These Cities are Ours: Notable Kaiju in Cinema by Richard Hing

• Wild Rides: Taxis in Cinema by William Redwood

• The Photography of Jackie Taylor

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Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd -2. Spirits of Place

• Foreword

• Urban Psychogeography by Stuart Silver

• Spirit of Place by Andy Paciorek

• Through Purged Eyes: Folk Horror and the Affective Landscape of the Urban Wyrd by Karl Bell

• Glasgow’s Occult Ancient Geometry: The Obsessions of Ludovic McLellan Mann and Harry Bell by Kenneth Brophy

• Post-Industrialism and Industrial Music by Simon Dell

• Towering Infernal: The Inner City in Contemporary Horror Films by Andy Paciorek

• God Will Forgive Them: Dead Man’s Shoes by Andy Paciorek

• Phantoms and Thresholds of the Unreal City by John Coulthart

• Holy Terrors – Whitby: An Interview with Mark Goodall

• The Burryman of South Queensbury: The Past Within the Present by Grey Malkin

• Saturnine: An Urban Meander by Andy Paciorek

• Devil’s Bridge: The Satanic Rites of Aclam by Bob Fischer

• Urbex, Haiyko and the Lure of the Abandoned by Andy Paciorek

• Wyrd On-screen: Urban Fears and Rural Folk by Diane A. Rodgers

• Spontaneous Shrines (Flowers Taped to Lamposts) by Howard David Ingham

• Between Two or More Worlds: The Urban Mindscape of David Lynch by Andy Paciorek

• Suburbia by Richard Hing

• Welcome to The League of Gentlemen … You’ll Never Leave by Jim Peters

• A Search for Aberdeen’s Lost Treasures by Peter Lyon

• Scovell & Budden: Greenteeth by Andy Paciorek

• The Photography of Neddal Ayad

• City in Aspic: Don’t Look Now by Andy Paciorek

• Bricks and Stones in The Pool of Life by Cat Vincent

• The Trumptonshire Trilogy by Andy Paciorek

• The Derive of Doom by Chris Lambert

• Iain Sinclair: Spirit Guide to the Urban Wyrd – Interviewed by John Pilgrim

• Review: Concretism – For Concrete and Country by Chris Lambert

• Shadow of the Cities: The Weird and the Noir by Andy Paciorek

• Black and White Dreams: An Interview with K.A. Laity

• Occult Detectives: An Interview with John Linwood Grant

• The Art of Andy Cropper

• Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles by Andy Paciorek

• The Photography of Peter Lagan

• Involute of Space / Time: An Interview with Will Self

• High Weirdness: A Daytrip to Hookland by Andy Paciorek

• Cyclopean Ruins and Albino Penguins: The Weird Urban Archeology of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness by Kenneth Lymer

• Sordid Smoke Ghosts: The Worlds of China Miéville by Colin Hetherington

• The Magic Kingdom: A Conversation with Walter Bosley by John Chadwick

• The City That Was Not There: ‘Absent’ Cityscapes in Classic British Ghost Stories by Anastasia Lipinskaya

• York: Albion’s Capital of the North by Oz Hardwick and John Pilgrim

• Urban Folklore: An Interview with Diane A. Rodgers

• Gripped: The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz by Howard David Ingham

• Place of Light and Darkness: Durham by Andy Paciorek

• Athens of the north: Edinburgh by SJ Lyall

• Service Station to Station by Andy Paciorek

• Miles Away: Hush (2008) by Andy Paciorek

• Sorcerers’ Apprentices and Industrial Witches: The Uban Wyrd as Magick in Leeds. West Yorkshire by Layla Legard

• Black as Sin: Possum and Spider by Andy Paciorek

• The Apartment Trilogy by Andy Sharp

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FOLK HORROR REVIVAL - HARVEST HYMNS Volumes One & Two

Harvest Hymns Volume 1 - The Twisted Roots of Folk Horror music

An exploration of the artists and their music who laid the foundations for future generations of Folk Horror musicians. Taking in Murder Ballads, Acid Folk, Occult Rock, The Blues and Traditional Folk Music as well as Film Soundtracks Twisted Roots is a collection of articles, interviews and album reviews from the likes of Maddy Prior, Jonny Trunk, Sharron Kraus, John Cameron and Candia McKormack and many more. Featuring an article on the Psychomania soundtrack by Mr Jim Moon! 

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Harvest Hymns Volume Two: Sweet Fruits 

This volume focuses on music that has been inspired and influenced by those artists, composers and albums covered in Vol.1 (Twisted Roots’) to create the music that we now would consider to be `Folk Horror’ – or that at least grazes in the same pastures as those artists. A mixture of interviews, articles and reviews from, about and with the likes of Adam Scovell, Moon Wiring Club, Drew Mullholland, Broadcast, The Devil & The Universe, Jim Jupp, Inkubus Sukkubus and A Year in the Country.

Keep your eyes peeled for Scarecrows, Horn Dancers and Corn Rigs, Hamlets, Fetes and Villages, Black Eyed Dogs, Hanging Trees and the mist rising in Fields of Blackberries, Weeping Willows, the Rolling of the Stones, and the Great God Pan sat upon his throne… and beware of all that goes on Beyond the Wych Elm for there ‘tis the Season of the Witch

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All proceeds from Folk Horror Revival books go to the Wildlife Trust.

Other fine tomes from Folk Horror Revival can be found here 

The Wyrd Kalendar

A few weeks ago Mr Chris Lambert, the creator of Tales from the Black Meadow (which I reviewed back here) got in touch and asked me if I'd like to part of the Wyrd Kalendar's July festivities. Of course I naturally jumped at the chance to part of such a fine project. 

Now for those of you who don't know, the Wyrd Kalendar is a series of monthly musical mixes, preparing the way for the forthcoming book Wyrd Kalendar (written by Chris Lambert and illustrated by Andy Paciorek for Wyrd Harvest Press). And very wonderful they have been too, atmospheric and eclectic mixes of music and narration with a strong folk horror theme. So then I was most honoured to provide some narrations for this month's explorations...

It is July.

It is time to run through the fields, your hand trailing against the light brown grass so close to harvest, ignoring the angry cries of the farmer as you exploit your imagined bucolic past.

It is time to build a grotto to celebrate Saint James. It is time to venture onto the Kalendar Heath again. Let the heat of these songs enfold you as Jim Moon reads extracts from this month’s story “Grotto Day” (written by Chris Lambert as part of Wyrd Kalendar due out in October).

This month’s mix contains music by Goldfrapp, Terry Reid, Uriah Heep, David Cain, Be Bop Deluxe, Gordon Lightfoot, John Stewart, Laura Veirs, Roger Waters, Sesame Street, Nick Nicely, Slim Dusty, Velvet Opera and Soundgarden.

You can find all the sonic explorations of the year so far here -
The Wyrd Kalendar on Mixcloud

While here is  the Weird Kalendar Blog

Also don't forget to make a trip to The Black Meadow

And more information on what the Folk Horror Revival is all about do visit here -https://folkhorrorrevival.com/