Tag Archives: horror
trying not to hide
There is no direct means of perceiving the real. Science can’t help. The whole of knowledge is like a deep layer of insulation between the individual & the real. No purposeful definition seems possible, only a forced engagement appalling & … Continue reading
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watch this space
Empty Space: I did my corrections in pencil on hard copy. Today will probably be the last time in history that an author puts a manuscript in a plastic bag & lugs it across London in the piss wet rain … Continue reading
spring cannibalism
I heard an equivalence in tone between the words “the Leveson Inquiry” & Mark Danielewski’s phrase “the Navidson Record”. Instantly, Leveson fell whole into Danielewski’s arid self-flattering maze of layered & ultimately unproductive discourses; while in return the presiding void … Continue reading
Filed under the horror, we live in a shit period of the world
those who know gifco
Those who have failed to regulate the self. Those whose behaviours enact a medicating fiction. Those who flew to the Canary Islands on a cheap ticket in December 1991 & left the remains of their personality in the apartment hotel. … Continue reading
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characters (2)
This character wakes up with a sense of happiness, all that remains of a dream the content of which she has already forgotten. The dream repeats itself. Soon it’s a nightly event. The dreamer’s delight on waking is increasingly intense. … Continue reading
Filed under writing
map boy writes on his handkerchief
The pollluted sublime. Pockets of the sublime. The sublime as haunting. The sublime as antechamber. The powerless or disconnected sublime. The sublime immanent in its opposite (gnostic sublime). Beatification & the anti-sublime: Visions of Johanna. The absent or absurd sublime. … Continue reading
Filed under landscape
kitchen sink gothic
John Coulthart on reading Robert Aickman: “like finding the quotidian Britishness of Alan Bennett darkening into the inexplicable nightmares of David Lynch.” I often return to BBC4′s The Golden Age of Canals, which features Aickman as a broody, nerdy TE … Continue reading
Filed under books & reviews
weird stories
Sparks in Electrical Jelly notices the first issue of Ann & Jeff Vandermeer’s Weird Fiction Review. If I edited a review of weird fiction, I would probably call it SWINELANDS, in honour of The House on the Borderland & of … Continue reading
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