The Studies in Hysteria contains several of Freud's earliest case histories, and would be worth reading for that alone (their tentative...

We are not separate from the world, ... our thoughts are not mirrors which reflect the world but a part of it, inextricable from the things ...

I have been reading a lot of Freud recently, in the new Penguin translations. The previous, so-called ‘standard edition’, created under the ...

I'll shortly begin a series of posts on works I've been reading recently . I aim to post one or two such entries a week over the com...

Here's a video from the Taiwanese publisher of Five Wounds , Azoth Books : I have no idea whatsoever what the interviewee is saying, ...

A Chinese edition of Five Wounds was recently released in Taiwan by Azoth Books. It looks amazing ( there are several interior views of pag...

A belated mention for a review of Five Wounds by Declan Tan for Spike Magazine , for whom I also wrote a short piece on the design of the b...

None more existential clip from Jean-Pierre Melville's great film about the French Resistance, Army of Shadows :

Happy Halloween from Dan Hallett ( via Dan's blog )

Below is an edited version of the infamous scene from Georges Franju's poetic horror film Eyes Without a Face (1960), in which plastic ...

A nice interview with Zoe (the designer of Five Wounds ) about her work on two recent short-story anthologies has been posted at Allen ...

Fantastic archival footage of Gilliam.

Style is a capitalist invention. It’s a trademark. It’s very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn’t my ...

There is a nice review of Five Wounds over at The Spectator Book Blog , by Isabel Sutton, which describes the book as an 'engrossing an...

Meanwhile, over at Dan's blog, he has been discussing the influences on his illustrations for Five Wounds , thus: Piranesi, Blake, Hogar...

I hate purity I hate goodness I don't want virtue to exist anywhere I want everyone corrupt.

Spike Magazine in the UK have now published a guest post I wrote for them on the design of Five Wounds . Below is an extract: Imagine that...

I somehow missed some further remarks on Five Wounds by Carl Doherty of the 'Shelf Abuse' site , who concludes: I couldn’t recommen...

The rest of the film is very badly dated (and is therefore not worth explaining here), but this final sequence, seen in isolation, is perhap...

Charles Laughton's film The Night of the Hunter (1955) has thematic concerns in common with another of my inspirations: Ray Bradbury...

YOU FEEL LIKE MUDD, YOU'LL END UP GOLD.