Day 652

Aka Tuesday 13^th November 2018

…did some more weights today, watched a little TV, listened to James O’Brien on LBC and listened to ‘Mummers’ by The FLK, a dark tinged, almost gothy folk album:

…which perfectly complimented my reading of ‘An Awful Imp’ and ‘Jazz Creepers’:

‘An Awful Imp’ is created by Douglas Noble and focuses on the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, as he is starting out as a Witchfinder and is intertwined with vignettes of how Mr Hopkins affected the lives of women on the future. Mr Noble also created ‘Horrible Folk’ and ‘More Horrible Folk’, and ‘An Awful Imp’ has a similar tone, a feeling of unease and dread, but has added humour. It’s as if the horror of ‘The Wicker Man’ was mashed-up with the comedy of ‘The Office’. 8/10.

‘Jazz Creepers 1’ is an anthology of “florid stories, of disreputable comics and unruly imagination”, collated by Douglas North. The stories range from the comedic to gory to brain tinglers to 'Twilight Zone' style horror, I will never look at a rabbit in quite the same way again, with work by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Hendrick Goltzius, Paul Jon Milne, Joseph Amesbury, Sarah Horrocks, Richard Dagley, Gareth A Hopkins, Sarah Gordon, Fats Waller, Vilim Cerny, Helen Stratton, Luca Signorelli and Douglas Noble. How can you say no to a line up like this?!? 8/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…and there’s a slight downturn as I have to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24), but that’s not too bad and I learnt that ‘small streams’ are called ‘brooks’, which I should have been able to guess, that ‘mountain lakes’ are called ‘tarns’ and that ‘German romantic songs for solo voice’ are called ‘lieder’, although I should have gotten ‘verbose’ from ‘long-winded’.