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Revisiting my Top 10 Fantasy & SF (Special Mention)


TOP 10 FANTASY (SPECIAL MENTION)

(9) HOOKLAND
(10) NEOLTITUDE

TOP 10 SF (SPECIAL MENTION)

(9) HAYFORD PIERCE
(10) DAVID BRIN

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2023-03-22

I tell you Nokes, there are things in the Hookland Constabulary's Black Museum that give me the full collywobbles and I am not generally a sufferer of collywobbles. The haunted razor of the Bardbury Brothers, one of Bonehouse Butcher's skulls. Mary Hay's hatpin.–

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2022-11-03

Pictures that were too creepy for the goodnight tweets. An occasional display.


Pale Children

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2022-10-04

The Bone Horse comes at important times to the community – solstice, Plague Play Sundays, Plough Mondays. Why wouldn't it come at Pride to march with us fully-grown changelings? Dance to our rude music? – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1980

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2022-08-28

Electric Ley Pilgrimage – Temple VII Signal by Hookland artist Lou Kemp. "Of course I paint pylons. They've captured the horizon and colonised the imagination. Whether you hear it or not, The Hum is part of the collective psychic static now."

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2022-08-22

The Gerding is form of Hookland nature spirit that needs appeasing. A monstrous head that lives beneath the soil, every few years it sends spores of itself up to the surface. These grow into smaller heads that demand the Gerding below is given its due.

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2022-05-19

In May 1969 Pavel Mikoyan was screaming on the moon. I wonder if he's still screaming after 53 years.

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2022-05-13

Certain days are ripe for cloud-telling. The auguries come fast, a feast of nephomancy parading across the sky. On such days I've learned the best technique is to focus on a single window or pool and watch only what it is reflecting. – Kathrine Giddings. Hookland artist, 1968

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2022-03-29

My take on the Hookland Mare de la Mer which is in turn inspired by the lovely work of both and

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2022-03-06

As a child I was shown a copy of a chart of the Hookland coast. The Bad Andrews' rocks, Ten-Tree Island, Sheldrake's Drop all annotated with sigils, apotropaic marks. It was deep magic. It bled into my soul. - Katherine Giddings

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2022-01-29

The Memory of Blood in Winter – one of the last paintings by Hookland artist Katherine Gidding, committed to canvas in February 1970.

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2022-01-26

Sometimes it’s best just to leave them sleeping…

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2021-11-14

This week's colour - Midnight Navy.

Just a friendly lil' water beastie. Nothing to see here. He won't lure you down below the surface and then snatch you away. Honest.

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2021-08-28

‘Stevie the Stay Below’ was an educational cartoon character in Hookland at the turn of the millennium, warning children of the dangers of playing near water. Popular due to his friendly smile and mischievous demeanour...

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2021-08-22

From the archive - the battlefields of Hookland

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2021-02-20

🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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2021-01-23

The folklore of Hookland's August Plague Plays.

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2020-08-27

Picture of Hookland landowner John Payne with his gun nicknamed 'Syntyche'. He claimed to have shot and wounded the Blackford Demon with it in 1882.

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2020-03-24

"Those things that threaten our sense of relationship to nature, those things I would call horror." - Hookland artist Katherine Giddings talking about her 1951 painting 'Tangle IV'

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2020-03-19

The sun is out, it feels ‘safe’ at The Park; dog walkers slow their pace to admire the view. The bus drives across the hill, its shadow flickering jauntily along the walls, but something’s not right. Are there other, hard to glimpse shadows running alongside?

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2020-03-06