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Wyrd Harvest Press: Charity Donation Poll

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On the Autumn Equinox (September 22) we will again donate 100% of  sales profits from our books to the Wildlife Trusts. Please choose the project below you would like to vote for (write name in comments box below or vote via the pinned post on our Facebook Group.)

We will split donation between the two projects with most votes.
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To see more details of the Wildlife Trusts’ projects or to make a direct donation please visit –
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals

Choose from ~

Badger Vaccination Project

Save Rare Butterflies

Keep Beavers in the Wild

Protect Nesting Ospreys

HS2 Wildlife in Crisis

Save Blackhouse Woods

Crayfish in Crisis

Help Heathland Birds

Great Fen Project

The Living Landscape

 

100% of profits from FHR / Wyrd Harvest Press books sold are charitably donated at intervals to different environmental, wildlife and community projects undertaken by the Wildlife Trusts.

Titles currently available (more in planning production )-

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Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies – Featuring essays and interviews by many great cinematic, musical, artistic and literary talents, Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies is the most comprehensive and engaging exploration to date of the sub genre of Folk Horror and associated fields in cinema, television, music, art, culture and folklore. Includes contributions by Kim Newman, Robin Hardy, Thomas Ligotti, Philip Pullman, Gary Lachman and many many more. 100% of all profits from sales of the book will be charitably donated to environmental, wildlife and community projects undertaken by The Wildlife Trusts.
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Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads –  An epic collection of spellbinding poetry, focusing on folk horror, life, death and the eeriness of the landscape by many creative talents both living and departed. Accompanied throughout with atmospheric imagery by an impressive collection of contemporary photographers. 100% of sales profits from this book are charitably donated to The Wildlife Trusts

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The Carnival of Dark Dreams by Dr Bob Curran & Andy Paciorek – Welcome to The Carnival of Dark Dreams. A visual daytrip into the depths of the jungle, the sands of the desert, to many haunted habitats and worse still into the darkness of the human imagination. But fear not, for captured, caged and presented for your curiosity by Dr. Bob Curran and Mr. Andy Paciorek are some of the most deadly, grotesque, fearsome entities of world folklore. Roll up Roll up for the fright of your lives. Dare you visit The Carnival of Dark Dreams???

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Captive

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Captive, by Doris Masters

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It smiles at me with frothy lips
Inviting me to stay;
To watch it as it leaps and drips with sand and stones at play.
The gulls fly screaming overhead
As if their prey to wake;
They dive into the watery mass,
At liberty to take.

Its icy waves they touch my skin
And play around my feet.
Seaweed stops and lingers there, the hazard it will meet.
Who knows what secrets it contains,
On its dark and secret bottom;
With rusting wreckage, and silver bones
Of heroes long forgotten.

What mythical beings are dwelling there?
Mermaids, Monsters, Lorelei;
The tales we heard so long ago, in us will never die.
It’s enticing me to join it
In its never ending quest;
To swallow up the living earth
And leave mortal souls at rest.

The sea goes on forever
As it has since time began;
Guided by a silver moon, never touched by wars or man.
I shiver in its coldness
Wanting not to go,
And leave this green and pleasant land
I have come to know.

I can no longer stay here
A captive on the beach
Two steps back, and they will take me
Forever out of reach.

(August 2016)

Image by Dan Hunt, Seafield Beach MMXVI

Tales of the Damned

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Edited by and featuring the work of cryptozoologist and folklore author Richard Freeman, Tales of the Damned : An Anthology of Fortean Horror is a chilling compendium of short stories by numerous luminary writers including Andy Roberts, Karl Shuker, Lars Thomas and numerous other talented souls – including and forgive us for blowing our own trumpets  😉
no less than three administrators of Folk Horror Revival the authors Andrew McGuigan (Cumbrian Cthulhu), Chris Lambert (Tales from the Black Meadow) and Andy Paciorek (Strange Lands: A Field Guide to the Celtic Otherworld)

“Here we have a book unique in the annals of horror literature. This is a book where the stories are penned, mostly, by fortean researchers. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ‘fortean’ refers to the works of Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932). Fort was an American writer and researcher into strange phenomena. Fort collected newspaper reports of sightings of strange creatures, weird light phenomena, falls of fish and other creatures, and poltergeist outbreaks to name but a few. Fort realized that mainstream science was acting somewhat like a fundamentalist religion and that any anomalous data that did not fit into the current scientific paradigm was simply swept under the carpet. Fort called this ‘damned data’. He published his findings in four books: The Book of the Damned (1919), New Lands (1923), Lo! (1932) and Wild Talents (1932), all of which are still in print today. Fort has influenced modern research with magazines like Fortean Times, which has been recording weird happenings since 1973, and the Centre for Fortean Zoology, the world’s only full time mystery animal investigation organization. The publishing wing of the latter is responsible for this book.”

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30% off Folk Horror Revival & Cumbrian Cthulhu books

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Fantastic Savings Offer
30% off all Wyrd Harvest Press / Folk Horror Revival books and also Cumbrian Cthulhu books
just add code LULU30 at checkout This offer ends July 24th. Remember, coupon codes are CASE-SENSITIVE.

100% of sales profits for WHP / FHR Books are charitably donated to the Wildlife Trusts
100% of sales profits from Cumbrian Cthulhu books are charitably donated to the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association

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Wyrd Harvest Press – FB Page

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For the Revivalists who follow us on Facebook, as the Group there gets so much traffic daily, sometimes it can be easy to lose track of or miss news and updates on Folk Horror Revival and Wyrd Harvest Press projects on there.
So we have created a Page specifically to post information that can be quickly and easily found about our book productions and other creative ventures at – www.facebook.com/folkhorrorrevival/
We will of course also continue to post the information here on our website *:) happy

Andy Paciorek – Books

Andy Paciorek is a graphic artist, drawn mainly to the worlds of myth, folklore, symbolism, decadence, curiosa, anomaly, dark romanticism and otherworldly experience. He is fascinated both by the beautiful and the grotesque and the twilight threshold consciousness where these boundaries blur. The mist-gates, edges and liminal zones where nature borders supernature and daydreams and nightmares cross paths are of great inspiration.

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Books currently available from the Andy Paciorek Blurb bookstore

https://i0.wp.com/www.blurb.co.uk/images/uploads/catalog/30/2110730/2122542-7a8837b0799df6c6bbfce5591a52d18a.jpgStrange Lands is a deeply researched and richly illustrated information guide to the entities and beasts of Celtic myth & legend and to the many strange beings that have entered the lore of the land through the influence of other cultures and technological evolution.At nearly 400 pages and featuring over 170 original illustrations, Strange Lands is an essential accompaniment for both the novice and seasoned walkers between worlds.

The following text from the foreword to Strange Lands by Dr Karl Shuker ~

“Right from a child, I have always been fascinated by mythology and folklore, especially the rich corpus originating in the British Isles, and I have read very extensively on the subject. However, I can say in all honesty that Strange Lands is one of the most comprehensive single volumes on British mythological entities that I have ever encountered. Even Dr Katharine M. Briggs’s essential tome, A Dictionary of Fairies, universally acclaimed as the standard work on such beings, now has a rival in terms of the sheer diversity of examples documented. And where Strange Lands effortlessly outpoints even that classic work is of course in its illustrations, which are truly breathtaking in their beauty, intricacy, and vibrancy”

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Containing over 100 original pen & ink portraits alongside biographic text, The Human Chimaera is an indispensable guide to the greatest stars of the circus sideshows and dime museums. Includes a foreword by John Robinson of Sideshow World.

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Imagery drawn by Andrew L. Paciorek from the mind of Andreea V. Balcan.

80 pages illustrated throughout, Symbiosis brings together the Balcan~Paciorek experimental projects exploring language, emotions and alchemy – ‘Pandemonium Vaudeville’, ‘The Anomalous Lexicon’ and ‘Conjunctio Oppositorum’.

Available in a choice of 3 cover formats and also as an e-book for iPad / iPhone.

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Coming soon-ish …

Black Earth: A Field Guide to the Slavic Otherworld …

Andy Paciorek is also the creator of Folk Horror Revival
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In addition to the books mentioned above, Andy has also produced work for other books including some of Harper Collin’s Element Encyclopedia & Art For mindfulness titles and the charity book project Cumbrian Cthulhu.

Follow The Art of Andy Paciorek on Facebook here
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