New Zine/Pamphlet + 2025 Gigs
D&D-inspired landscape poems + shows: Norwich (Thursday!), Bristol, Leeds and Stockton.
The second season of Uncanny Landscapes podcast restarts later this week with plenty of episodes in the can waiting to come out! Until then a quick note about a few other projects that might be of interest (including Norwich gig Thursday night 16 Jan!)
The Trapping Fog is a back-pocket zine-slash-poetry-pamphlet - a small book of poems based on or inspired by descriptions of landscape in 1980s-era Dungeons & Dragons campaign modules such as Keep on the Borderlands and The Ghost Tower of Inverness. These landscapes were, for me, the beginning of an obsession that lasts to this day, and I wanted to celebrate their language in honour of D&D’s 50th anniversary in 2024.
The book is a collaboration with two fantastic artists. Tom Eglington is a writer and artist whose work includes the 2000 AD graphic-novel title Thistlebone, the long-running anthology’s Folk Horror strand; Tom’s black-and-white drawings of strange, twisting yew trees from Kingley Vale in Sussex illustrate the book, which also includes his sequence of poems inspired by that place. And designer Stefan Musgrove, a long-time collaborator of mine, made a truly loving design for it inspired by his own experiences with D&D (and its contemporary competitor rpg, Tunnels & Trolls).
You can check out and order The Trapping Fog from my Bandcamp or Big Cartel pages.
The Great Satanic Swindle is my true-crime folk-horror performance lecture; a salacious true story of sex, money and Satanism in Thatcher’s tabloid England. I love telling this bizarre tale of friendship and belief and black magick, and am excited to get to do so again in a few more cities around England this winter/spring, starting THIS THURSDAY in the glorious city of Norwich.
The Great Satanic Swindle 2025:
THIS Thursday, 16 January at The Holloway, Norwich, with The Feathered Thorns.
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Thursday, 13 March at Sidney & Eden pub, Bristol. Tickets on sale soon!
Wednesday, 23 April at the Waiting Room, Stockton. Tickets on sale soon!
Thursday, 24 April at the Old Woollen theatre, Leeds.
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I didn't know you were a gamer. Not that I am, but I happen to be very close to a few folks who wrote some landmark games shortly after D&D got it started. Nice to see these lands of imagination evolving into artworks.