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The English Heretic Collection

Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography

Andy Sharp

Repeater Books 2020

Pb, £12.99, 427pp, ISBN 9781913462093

Andy Sharp is best known as the musician who creates aural collages from a heady blend of electronica and sampled spokenword esoterica. The English Heretic Collection is his latest creative manifestation, a collection of essays reflecting 15 years of research into wyrd culture.

Just as with Sharp’s musical collages, the literary conflates Sixties and Seventies horror B-movies with esoterica, pulp fiction with folklore and the occult, WWII plane wreckage with

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