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Archive 81: an Urban Wyrd Review
Archive 81: an Urban Wyrd Review
Archive 81 is a 2022 Netflix series developed by Rebecca Sonnenshine based upon the podcast of the same name created by Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger (which I have not listened to as of yet, so cannot compare in this article).
Its premise follows the recruitment of Dan Turner (Mamadoudou Athie) as an electronic media conservator tasked with restoring fire-damaged videotapes shot by missing…
Happy New Year + New Merchandise
Happy New Year + New Merchandise
Happy New Year to all Revivalists – Hope it is a good one. To mark the dawn of 2022 – here are two new designs at our online RedBubble merchandise store –
Available on various items and garments in various colours and cuts.Browse all our available designs -> here …
Lamb: Film Review
I must confess that I watched Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb (Dýrið) whilst having a goblet or two of Absinthe, but had I viewed it tea-total, I don’t think it would have been any less strange!! I don’t want to give away too much of the film but the basic premise is that a farming couple, Maria and Ingvar (played by Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) living on a remote sheep-holding in Iceland…
Antlers : Film Review
Antlers : Film Review
Antlers (2021), directed by Scott Cooper and based on the short story ‘The Quiet Boy’ by Nick Antosca, has in its promotion highlighted the production role of Guillermo del Toro to whose films Antlers shares some similarities but shows some differences. Like a number of del Toro’s movies the principal backstory concentrates on children growing up in difficult circumstances, but the delivery here…
Let’s Get Wyrd: Webinar and Book Discount Code
Let’s Get Wyrd: Webinar and Book Discount Code
It might be spooky season now, but you can write and publish horror all year round! Tune in to the Lulu learn what makes a great horror story and tips for getting started in the genre from Andy Paciorek, author, illustrator and founder of Folk Horror Revival, Urban Wyrd Project, Northumbria Ghost Lore Society & Wyrd Harvest Press .
In this session, Andy will share his tips, tricks and treats for…
Halloween Book Discount
15% Discount on All of our books Just add code TRICK15 at checkout at https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek(change to your local currency at the bottom of the linked webpage) Offer valid through 8th October 2021Though all of our books make great presents for your boofriends, ghoulfriends, family & fiends and for yourself for All Hallows let us draw your attention to a few …
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21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II
21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II
Wyrd Harvest Press are pleased to announce the release of our new collection of strange and spooky tales 21st Century Ghost Stories: Volume II. Penned by a host of award-winning writers, edited by Paul Guernsey and illustrated by Andy Paciorek.
This vibrant collection of award-winning supernatural stories from around the world offers something for every taste in the uncanny. Yes, there are…
End of Summer Discounts
End of Summer Discounts
20% Discount on Folk Horror Revival and Urban Wyrd Project masks Just add Discount Code MASKS20 at checkout at ~https://www.redbubble.com/people/folkhorrorrev/shopExpires August 31, 2021 11:59pm
10% Discount on all Folk Horror Revival / Wyrd Harvest Press books Just add Code PURCHASE10 at checkout at https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/andypaciorek Offer valid through 3 September
Wyrms at Winter Ghosts ~ T-Shirts and Live Event
Wyrms at Winter Ghosts ~ T-Shirts and Live Event
Wyrm logo & poster by Cobweb Mehers. Sun symbol by Andy Paciorek
Winter Ghosts at Whitby returns this year at the Metropole ballroom on Saturday 27th November featuring talks by and with a ghost story session at Flowergate Hall on Sunday 28th November. There will also be a Cryptid / folkloric creature themed art exhibition running at Flowergate Hall from October 30th to November…
Gibbet Hills
Gibbet Hills
Northumbria Ghost~Lore Society ~ a new project from Folk Horror Revival creator The Art of Andy Paciorek introduces the new blog with a visit to a very strange place … Gibbet Hills
The Satyr & Other Tales: Book Review
The Satyr and Other Tales: Book Review
Stephen J. Clark’s The Satyr & Other Tales is an anthology of his earlier book releases The Satyr (2010) and The Bestiary of Communions (2011) now released as a paperback edition.
Uniting the 4 tales in a single anthology is a good move as the tales compliment each other and are united not only by all the tales being set around the times of the two world wars but there is also a thread of…
Cursed Earth:Landscape and Isolation in Folk Horror. An essay by Andy Paciorek
Cursed Earth:Landscape and Isolation in Folk Horror. An essay by Andy Paciorek
Though folk horror is often associated to Britain, in looking through the vast number of films, TV series, books and other media that dabble in these ways, it soon becomes very apparent that it is a global phenomenon and not a new one at that. The forerunner of horror story books and films are the folk and fairy tales told as entertainments on those cold evenings around fires. And not just as an…
In The Earth: Film Review
In The Earth: Film Review
In the 21st Century Folk Horror Revival, several names keep coming to the fore, among those are the partnership of British film director Ben Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump. Together they have previously brought us the new wave of folk horror gems Kill List (2011) and A Field in England (2013) as well as the tangentially associated Sightseers (2012) – a darkly humourous film that is akin to…
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown: Book Review
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown: Book Review
It’s grim up north … actually it’s not entirely. There is a lot of beauty in the north but as Glen James Brown’s debut novel illustrates there is a bleakness to that beauty – the north has a shadow self and certain areas dwell in the shade that casts. Places such as the Burn Estate, the central location of Ironopolis.This is not a new book. It first hit the shelves in 2018, so it isn’t an old…
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy : Book Review
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy : Book Review
When I read fiction, my mind’s eye tends to play out the unfolding narrative as a film. In the case of Lucie McKnight Hardy’s novel ‘Water Shall Refuse Them’ the setting and style adapted itself on the cinema screen behind my eyelids in the manner of a 1970s Play For Today or similar. That is far from a criticism – BBC plays such as Nuts in May, Brimstone and Treacle, Our Day Out, Blue Remembered…
The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean: Book Review
The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean: Book Review
The ‘X’ in Generation X (those born roughly between the early 1960s and late 70s/ early 80s) must surely refer to the X certificate formerly bestowed upon horror movies or ‘X’ as in X Files in relating to spooky paranormal mysteries. The other title bestowed by writer and broadcaster Bob Fischer upon the folk born of these times – ‘The Haunted Generation’ would seemingly confirm this. Maclean’s…
The Art of the Devil & The Art of the Occult: Book Reviews
The Art of the Devil & The Art of the Occult: Book Reviews
Demetrio Paparoni’s The Art of the Devil and S. Elizabeth’s The Art of the Occult are two richly illustrated collections of visual imagery dedicated to dark and hellish subjects and both are great additions to the weird / wyrd art bookshelves. Both feature a fascinating array of images dating from centuries past to contemporary representation and therein lies a slight bone of contention for me…
I Am The Dark Tourist by H.E. Sawyer: Book Review
I Am The Dark Tourist by H.E. Sawyer: Book Review
This book really makes you think, at least it made me think. Following on from my recent reading of Peter Laws’ The Frighteners (review here) where in wider terms questions and considerations are made regarding as to why some individuals are drawn towards macabre subjects; H.E. Sawyer takes this enigma into a more specific territory – not that of fiction but in the physical visitation of real…
