Strange Attractor Journal Five
ed. Mark Pilkington & Jamie Sutcliffe
Strange Attractor Press 2023
Pb, 288pp, £20, ISBN 9781907222528
This volume five of a very occasional journal (there has been a pause of a dozen years) combines well-researched articles, often excellently illustrated, pierced between very dark neo-gothic full-page apposite woodcuts.
This collection of often magical and always esoteric offerings offers retrospective vignettes of Victorian to mid-20th century people, happenings and celluloid in a mishmash of folk, popular and high culture and scholarship (some perhaps drifting into obscurantism).
Many articles, always questioning, are straightforward, illuminating persona, places and folk-related animalia. Twentieth-century cinema, and its film stars, real and nascent, flickers in the is a surprise.
