The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography - Softcover

Andy Sharp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913462099 ISBN 13: 9781913462093

Publisher: Repeater Books, 2020

Synopsis

The English Heretic Collection is a visionary field report based on fifteen years of deep-vein travel to England's strangest landscapes with a host of tragic players.

Actors, witches and psychopaths maraud across a nightmare terrain of ominous stones and abandoned military bases, transforming creative research into a surreal documentary. Horror B-movies haunt the East Anglian countryside. Winston Churchill is inaugurated into the Ancient Order of the Druids. The suburbs of West London are home to psychedelic covens. From the red clays of rural horror to the outer regions of occultism, from the forensic vision of J.G. Ballard to the cauldron of The White Goddess, if history is revealed as a paranoid ritual, how do we escape its time traps to wild, new and imaginative geographies?

Part countercultural history of England, part ghost story, and part magickal psychogeography, The English Heretic Collection is a darkly comical, urgently lyrical, mental escape hatch from the hells of our own making.

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About the Author

Andy Sharp is a writer and multimedia artist. Since 2003, he has worked on English Heretic, an autonomous creative research project. Pioneering the form of literary and aural aesthetics, he has released over a dozen albums and booklets. He has talked at academic conferences and counter-cultural events on a wide range of subjects drawn from his research. He has an Msc in Neuroscience from Kings College and lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Repeater Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913462099
• ISBN 13: 9781913462093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 427