Tag Archives: Folk Horror

Mothlight by Adam Scovell

Posted on 25/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

  I scraped away a line of dust from the glass to reveal the moth inside. It had faded too, its lower left wing detached almost entirely and now disintegrating at the bottom of the frame. Something struck me about … Continue reading →

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October 2018 Reviews

Posted on 22/10/2018 by Bobby Seal

Books Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast – Tom Bolton (Penned in the Margins, 2018) Think of Essex and what comes to mind? For many it will be Norman Tebbit, Teddy Taylor and that peculiarly Essex-led brand of working-class … Continue reading →

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Winter 2017/18 Reviews

Posted on 07/12/2017 by Bobby Seal

A collection of seasonal reading loosely connected by the themes of landscape, time and memory… The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City – Iain Sinclair This is the eighteenth and supposedly final chapter of Iain Sinclair’s London novel. … Continue reading →

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A Bridge That Divides

Posted on 30/11/2017 by Bobby Seal

A bridge that links and divides. Two nations, border country, and in my mind I’m so close to the edge. But fly-strewn water fills my mouth, and drowns all possible words. The water is warm and viscous, its whole surface … Continue reading →

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Sulphur – an Interview with Christopher Ian Smith

Posted on 03/02/2017 by Bobby Seal

Sulphur is a new short film by Christopher Ian Smith.  It is a macabre experiment across documentary and horror.  Sulphur dives head first into the folk traditions and ceremonial weirdness of bonfire night in Lewes, Sussex, an annual event of … Continue reading →

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