The Grateful and the Dead

A wild pursuit of a dream collides with frozen spit, psychic hare-hags, bizarre marriages, and strange helpers. Dark, comedic, and beautiful by turn, let Ben Haggarty lure you into a fairytale for grown-ups – a story of initiations, intoxications, the repayment of debts, and the risks of chasing what you Read more

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The Game of Candles

Ravenous flying heads; demon masks that possess the wearer; faceless ghosts; goblin-rats, women made of snow; seductive statues; warrior monks; abandoned farmhouses; mountaintops and lonely roads… In Edo period Japan, a night-time game of one hundred flickering candles and one hundred supernatural tales became a widespread folk phenomenon – Hyakumonogatari Read more

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