A Book Of Ghosts

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Notes:

1. Written between February 2025 and June 2025
2. And illustrated in June 2025
3. Originally on little cards, the words on one side, the pictures on the other.
4. Like miniature tarot cards or something
5. If tarot cards came with poems on them

6. Which I presume they don’t
7. Anyway, I apologise for the abject quality of a few of the illustrations
8. Especially the attempt at an aerial view of the field over the park
9. And also the magician in his hat
10. And maybe even all of the others
11. (I quite like the crow though)
12. And the slightly terrible whirlwind one is a tribute to this picture of a terrifying tornado in The Citadel Of Chaos.
13. Then again everything I do is a tribute to The Citadel Of Chaos
14. Also everything here was largely inspired by Leonora Carrington‘s Beasts series
15. Which I would spend hours looking at every couple of days
16. In an astonishingly good exhibition at Firstsite in Colchester
17. That ran through most of the bleakness of last winter
18. Also if you’ve found yourself all the way down here, you can download a pdf/ebook of this below

A Book Of Ghosts

19. If for some reason you like it enough to want it on your phones or whatever

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how to perform an exorcism

My mind is a fucking torment of ideas
and i’m not sure how AI
is supposed to help assuage them

the only way to perform an exorcism
is to rip the ghosts out by hand

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Notes:

1. Written on November 8th, 2024

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Tales From The Town #171: A Haunting

If I could be a ghost
I’d be the sort of ghost
that lingers
and doesn’t leave

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Notes:

1. Written at some point in 2023

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Tales From The Town #129: And the apples are all dead at the bottom of their trees

Apples rotting beneath the trees. Teardrop jewelled spider’s webs on the washing line. And in the distance ships lost in the fog out at sea.

Autumn was here, and not even Claire declaring that there’s no such thing as ghost ships could spoil Agnes’s mood.

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Notes:

1. Written on July 27th and August 26th, 2023

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Tales From The Town #119: A Scene From Any Summer

The tennis courts were empty. The gates were shut, locked, padlocked, chained, bolted, and, quite possibly, even welded. No one had set foot inside since 1985 and no one would set foot inside again until 2055 at the very earliest unless something catastrophic happened and even then it was unlikely to be catastrophic enough to change anything that drastically.

The nets fluttered in the wind, as close a thing to genuine ghosts as anything in material existence could ever hope to be.

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Notes:

1. Written on May 26th, 2023

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