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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…

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All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror will be releaed on December 7 via Severin Films. The Blu-ray box set features Kier-La Janisse's new documentary, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (also available separately) plus 19 folk horror movies.

The films include: Avery Crounse's Eyes of Fire (1983), Djordje Kadijevic's Leptirica (1973), Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer (1970), Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov's Viy (1967), Kåre Bergstrøm's Lake of the Dead (1958), Viðar Víkingsson's Tilbury (1987), Mario Andreacchio's The Dreaming (1988), James Bogle's Kadaicha (1988), Ann Turner's Celia (1989), Ian Coughlan's Alison's Birthday (1981),  Marek Piestrak's Wilczyca (1983), Janusz Majewski's Lokis (1970), Ryszard Bugajski's Clearcut (1991), Brunello Rondi's Il Demonio (1963), Mariano Baino's Dark Waters (1993), Ben Wheatley's A Field in England (2012), Chris Newby's Anchoress (1993), Alan Clarke's Penda's Fen (1974), and James MacTaggart's Robin Redbreast (1970).

Also included are various short films, a CD of the Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched soundtrack composed by Jim Williams (A Field in England, Possessor), a CD with Arthur Machen's "The White People" short story read by actress Linda Hayden, and a 126-page book with writings by film scholars, authors, and historians.

All films have been restored in high definition from the best available vault elements. The lengthy list of special features are listed below.

Disc 1:

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched special features:

Introduction by writer-director Kier-La Janisse

Interview with animator Ashley Thorpe

Outtakes - What is Folk Horror?, Harvest Hymns, Terra Assombrada

Folk Poetry recited by actors Ian Ogilvy Linda Hayden set to Super 8 footage

Trailer

Disc 2:

Eyes of Fire special features:

Audio commentary with author Colin Dickey

Interview with director Avery Crounse by historian Stephen Thrower

Crying Blue Sky - Alternate longer cut restored in 2K from the director’s personal 35mm answer print

Short Films:

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Sam Weiss, 1972)

Transformations (Barbara Hirschfeld, 1972)

Backwoods (Ryan Mackfall, 2018) 

Disc 3:

Leptirica special features:

Interview with director Djordje Kadijevic

Štićenik - 1973 short film directed by Djordje Kadijevic

Interview with Štićenik actor Milan Mihailovic

Devičanska Svirka - 1973 short film directed by Djordje Kadijevic

Iterview with Devičanska Svirka actor Goran Sultanovic

Disc 4:

Witchhammer special features:

Audio commentary by Czech film historian Irena Kovarova

The Womb of Woman Is the Gateway to Hell - Appreciation by historians Kat Ellinger and Michael Brooke

The Projection Booth Podcast on Witchhammer

Viy special features:

From the Woods to the Cosmos - John Leman Riley on the history of Soviet fantasy and sci-fi films

Trailer

Silent Short Films:

Satan Exultant (1917)

The Queen of Spades (1916)

The Portrait (1915)

Disc 5:

Lake of the Dead special features:

Audio commentary by historians Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons

Tilbury special features:

Audio commentary by director Viðar Víkingsson and screenwriter Þórarinn Eldjárn

With Enough Tilbury Butter, Anything Is Good — Interview With Karl Ágúst Úlfsson

Interview with actor Kristján Franklin Magnúss

White Spot in the Back of the Head - 1979 student film directed by Viðar Víkingsson

Interview with director Viðar Víkingsson about White Spot in the Back of the Head

Disc 6:

The Dreaming special features:

Audio commentary with director Mario Andreacchio

Trailer

Kadaicha special features:

Audio commentary with director James Bogle

Audio interview with actress Zoe Carides

Audio interview with composer Peter Westheimer

Behind the scenes footage

Trailer

Disc 7:

Celia special features:

Interview with director Ann Turner

Interview with editor Ken Sallows 

The Rabbit in Australia - 1979 short film

Alison’s Birthday special features:

Interviews with producer David Hannay and actors Joanne Samuel and Belinda Giblin

The Devil Down Under - Video essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Disc 8:

Wilczyca special features:

Interview with director Marek Piestrak

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach special features:

Interview with director Janusz Majewski

Disc 9:

Clearcut special features:

Introduction by director Ryszard Bugajski

Audio commentary by scholar Shaawano Chad Uran

Short Films:

The Ballad of Crowfoot (Willie Dunn, 1968) with audio commentary

You Are On Indian Land (Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell, 1969)

Consume (Mike Peterson, 2017)

Disc 10:

Il Demonio special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger

The Kid From A Kibbutz - Video essay by film historian Tim Lucas

Interview with Brunello Rondi biographer Alberto Pezzotta

Dark Waters special features:

Audio commentary by writer/director Mariano Baino

Deep Into the Dark Waters - Making-of feautrette with cast and crew

Disc 11:

A Field in England special features:

Audio commentary by director Ben Wheatley, producer Andy Starke, and sound editor Martin Pavey

Letterboxd Magic Hour - Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched filmmaker Kier-La Janisse interviews director Ben Wheatley

The Music of A Field in England - Featurette with composer Jim Williams and director Ben Wheatley

Ben Wheatley in conversation with film historian Pete Tombs

Camera tests

Trailer

Anchoress special features:

Lockdown 1329 - Video essay by director Chris Newby

A Short Trip To Shere - Director Chris Newby documentars the location of the real Christine Carpenter’s anchoress cell 

Disc 12:

Penda’s Fen special features:

Audio commentary by James Machin and Matthew Hale, editors of Of Mud & Flame: The Penda’s Fen Sourcebook

The Landscape of Feelings: The Road to Penda’s Fen - Interviews with writer David Rudkin, producer David Rose, and more

Robin Redbreast special features:

Audio commentary by William Fowler and Vic Pratt, authorsof The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film & Television

Interview with writer John Bowen

Short Films:

The Pledge (Digby Rumsey, 1982)

The Sermon (Dean Puckett, 2018)

Also included:

CD: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched soundtrack composed by Jim Williams

CD: Arthur Machen's "The White People" short story read by actress Linda Hayden with music by Timothy Fife and Missionary Work

126-page book curated by Kier-La Janisse and designed by Luke Insect with new writing by Andy Paciorek, Stephen Volk, Mitch Horowitz, Dawn Keetley, Sarah Chavez, Stephen R. Bissette, and Dejan Ognjanović, plus archival pieces and a breakdown of all the films in the set

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Revenant, Issue 5: Folk Horror. Edited by Ruth Heholt, guest editor: Dawn Keetley, March 2020. Info and free download: revenantjournal.com.

Revenant is a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to the study of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird in any form and in any period. Committed to the scholarly, academic and creative exploration of the supernatural in its multiple, variable and fantastic forms this inter-disciplinary journal encourages discussion about the supernatural or the weird in literature, history, folklore, philosophy, science, religion, sociology and all aspects of popular culture. All areas of discussion are welcome and we invite for example discussions of classic Victorian ghost stories, articles about Shakespeare’s ghosts, standing stones, architecture, film, television, games or new media. Revenant promotes new writing on the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird and we are looking to publish ghost stories, tales of the extraordinary, poems and nature writing. Encouraging a cross-theoretical approach the super-natural may also be explored in relation to gender, sexuality, spirituality, post-colonialism, Marxism or eco-criticism. Revenant emphasises that the ‘natural’ is part of the super-natural and continues a long tradition of both serious and imaginative investigation.

Contents:

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University

Articles A FEAR OF THE FOLK: ON TOPOPHOBIA AND THE HORROR OF RURAL LANDSCAPES – James Thurgill, The University of Tokyo FOLK HORROR, OSTENSION AND ROBIN REDBREAST – Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University IDENTITY AND FOLK HORROR IN JULIAN RICHARDS’ DARKLANDS – Cary Edwards, Boston College, UK ‘A LOST, HAZY DISQUIET’: SCARFOLK, HOOKLAND, AND THE ‘HAUNTED GENERATION’ – David Sweeney, The Glasgow School of Art FOLK HORROR IN THE OZARKS: THE GENRE HYBRIDITY OF DEBRA GRANIK’S WINTER’S BONE – Beth Kattelman, The Ohio State University SUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE IN THE BLAIR WITCH FILMS: NEW PROJECT, NEW PROOF – Peter Turner, Oxford Brookes University COLONISING THE DEVIL’S TERRITORIES: THE HISTORICITY OF PROVIDENTIAL NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE IN THE VVITCH – Brendan C. Walsh, University of Queensland DREAMING OF LEVIATHAN: JOHN LANGAN’S THE FISHERMAN AND AMERICAN FOLK HORROR – Alexandra Hauke, University of Passau

Creative Work CAMPUS VISIT – D.K. Picariello, Writer

Reviews INTERVIEW WITH ADAM NEVILL, AUTHOR OF THE RITUAL (2011) – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University THE GOTHIC AND THE CARNIVALESQUE IN AMERICAN CULTURE BY TIMOTHY JONES – Christopher M. Flavin, Northeastern State University FOLK HORROR: HOURS DREADFUL AND THINGS STRANGE BY ADAM SCOVELL & FOLK HORROR REVIVAL: FIELD STUDIES (SECOND EDITION) EDITED BY ANDY PACIOREK, GREY MALKIN, RICHARD HING AND KATHERINE PEACH – Paul Gorman, Writer WITCHFINDER GENERAL BY IAN COOPER – Brandon Grafius, Ecumenical Theological Seminary HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: SUPER-NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, RUTH HEHOLT AND NIAMH DOWNING (EDITORS) – Janine Hatter, University of Hull STARVE ACRE BY ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY – Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University MODERN GHOST MELODRAMAS: WHAT LIES BENEATH BY MICHAEL WALKER – Murray Leeder, University of Calgary BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS BY FABIEN VEHLMANN AND KERASCOËT; TRANS. HELGE DASCHER – Daniel Pietersen, Independent Scholar AMERICAN GOTHIC CULTURE: AN EDINBURGH COMPANION, JOEL FAFLAK AND JASON HASLAM (EDITORS) – Jillian Wingfield, University of Hertfordshire FOLK HORROR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFERENCE REPORT – Dorka Tamás, University of Exeter

Notes on Contributors

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Priest, Conway, Potts, Sayger Among Top Creators At 2019 Wizard World Chicago, August 22-25

Industry veterans Christopher Priest (“Black Panther,” “Batman”) Carl Potts (“Venom,” “Punisher”), Stuart Sayger (“G.I. Joe.” “Xena: Warrior Princess”), Gerry Conway (“The Punisher,” “Ms. Marvel”), Kurt Lehner (“Gargoyles,” “Marvel Action Hour”), Mostafa Moussa (“Superman,” “Fantastic Four”), Jeremy Clark ("Grimm Fairy Tales," "Day of the Dead"), Thomas Estrada (Disney, DreamWorks), Tim Lattie (“Ghostbusters,” WWE), Joe Wos (“Mazetoons”), and Joe Corroney (“Star Wars,” “Marvel’s Avengers”) are among the leading creators scheduled to populate Artist Alley at the 22nd annual Wizard World Chicago at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, August 22-25. The weekend will also feature many demonstrations and discussions at the Creative Stage, as well as more than 40 Chicagoland-area creators.

Other notable artists and writers scheduled to appear include Gavin Smith (“The Accelerators,” “Ghost in the Shell”), Claudio Aboy (DC Comics, LucasFilm), Eddy Decker (“Far Out!”), James Morris (Three Kingdoms trilogy), Mog Park (HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” “Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”), Ren McKenzie (“The Samaritan,” “Half Breed”), Jed Thomas (“Crypt TV,” “The Amity Wars”) and more.

In addition to Decker, the Chicago area will be well represented in Artist Alley. Local artists and writers appearing there include notables Trevor Mueller (“Albert the Alien,” “Reading with Pictures”), Alan Dyson (“Game of Thrones,” “Knight Seeker”), Andy Szaf (“Power Animals,” WCW), Christopher Kostecka (Hippo Ocracy, The President Killed My Dog), Camron Johnson (“Bonecheek,” “Rabbit in Red”), Cory Smith (pencil portraits, charcoal sketches), Christine Chang (traditional, digital media), Arthur Lashkiba (digital art), Winslow Dumaine (“The Tarot Restless”), DJ Corchin (“A Thousand No’s,” “Do You Speak Fish?”), Juan Gomez (“The Bells,” Rolling Stone), Kae McSpadden (“Find Your Wings,” Reppin’ Flag), Katie Houston (costumes, custom figures), Edward Sims (“Black Arrow,” “Persia the Lighting Dragon”), Kurt Zauer (“Spectress and Sabanion”), Luis Colindres (EDM illustrations), Wil Woods (The Paper Terminal), Tyrine Carver (The Paper Terminal), Brandon Santiago (“The Kid,” “Asa’s Dad”), Patrick Olsen (“Paradise Lost”), Peter Smith (“Chronicles of Zelara,” “Across the Pond Presents”), Rob Hogan (political art), Joseph Cisneros (“Bandana Avenger and Friends”), Matthew Paciorek (“C.H.A.M.P.S.”), Vheto Gutierrez Vazquez (“Chaac”) and others.

Wizard World Chicago will also include non-stop live entertainment, gaming, exclusive Q&A sessions with select celebrities and autographs/photo ops with top stars such as Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Justice League), “Gotham” stars Ben McKenzie, Morena Baccarin and Drew Powell, Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, “Stranger Things”), Henry Winkler (“Happy Days,” “Barry”), Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas), Daniel Cudmore (X-Men, The Twilight Saga), George Wendt (“Cheers”), Melissa Joan Hart (“Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,” “Melissa and Joey”), Katrina Law (“Arrow,” “Spartacus: Blood and Sand”) and more, along with Wizard World’s Master of Ceremonies, Kato Kaelin.

Wizard World events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop culture: movies, television, gaming, live entertainment, comics, sci-fi, graphic novels, toys, original art, collectibles, contests and more. The eighth event scheduled on the 2019 Wizard World calendar, Chicago show hours are Thursday, August 22, 4-9 p.m.; Friday, August 23, noon-7 p.m.; Saturday, August 24, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, August 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Kids 10 and under are admitted free with paid adult.

Wizard World Chicago is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor and participate in the famed Wizard World Costume Contest on Saturday evening.

For more on the 2019 Wizard World Chicago, visit http://wizd.me/ChicagoPR.

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Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd – 1. Spirits of Time, edited by Richard Hing, Grey Malkin, Stuart Silver and Andy Paciorek, Wyrd Harvest Press, 2019. Cover art by Grey Malkin, frontispiece by Andy Paciorek, back cover by Jim Peters, info: folkhorrorrevival.com.

Welcome to the Urban Wyrd. Discover Hauntology, Weird Technology & Transport, Hauntings and much much more in the realms of TV, Film, Literature, Art, Culture , Lore and Life. Travel in time and spaces with Adam Scovell, Stephen Volk, Scarfolk, Julianne Regan, Sebastian Backziewicz, Sara Hannant, The Black Meadow and many other contributors. All sales profits from this book purchased from our Lulu bookstore are donated at intervals to The Wildlife Trusts.

Contents: Time: A Foreword Urban Wyrd: An Introduction by 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 Fisher 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 Back to the Countryside: Urban Witchcraft by Darren Charles 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 An Interview with Stephen Volk The Last Key That Unlocks Everything: Ghost Stories by Andy Paciorek A Very Urban Haunting: The Echo of Noisy Spirits by Jim Peters The Cookstown Ghost: Poltergeist Phenomenon in Urban Ulster in the 19th Century by Jodie Shevlin These Houses Are Haunted: Supernatural Dwellings in Film by Andy Paciorek The Photography by Carmit Kodrov Wyrd Technology by Andy Paciorek Voices of the Ether: Stone Tapes, Electronic Voices and Other Ghosts by James Riley Video nasty: Moving Image in The Ring and Sinister by Andy Paciorek An Interview with Richard Littler – Major 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: Deon Seed by Andy Paciorek The Photography by 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 S.J. Lyall I Am Not A Number: The Prisoner by Stuart Silver All For the Hunting Ground: Wolfen by S.J. Lyall Reclaiming the "f" word: A conversation between The Black Meadow's Chris Lambert and Pilgrim's Sebastioan 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 Wolds of Ballard & Cronenberg by Andy Paciorek The Eternal Snicket by Professor Phillip Hull (From an interview with Chis 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 S.J. Lyall These Cities are Ours: Notable Kaiju in Cinema by Richard Hing Weird Rides: Taxis and Urban Uncertainty by William Redwood The Photography by Jackie Taylor "This isn't for Your Eyes" – The Waychers by Richard Hing The Whole World is on Fire: Years and Years by Andy Paciorek Nature and Machine: An Interview with Julianne Regan How Do the Dead Come Back, Mother? Psychomania by Andy Paciorek Urban Wyrd Biographies Wyrd Harvest Press