Zac Hawkins's Blog
January 1, 2023
Favourite First Times: Film and Books
Hello there.
In years passed I would have posted these little reflective pieces on either Twitter or Facebook, but I binned both of those cesspools for good over the course of the year (can't advocate it enough, destroy your socials, you can thank me later). So you lucky folks instead get to judge me for my suspect taste.
Wishing all a happy new year and here's to weird art shite the world over,
Books:
In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files
Collected Poetry and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud
Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Eyes in the Dust by David Peak
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Asphodels by Bernardo Couto Castillo
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman
Panorama of Hell by Hideshi Hino
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim
The Dhammapada
The Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Selected Writings on Art and Artists by Charles Baudelaire
Ghouljaw and Other Stories by Clint Smith
Faunus by James Machin et al
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Paradoxes From Hell by Thomas Ligotti
Une Semaine De Bonte by Max Ernst
The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ringstones by Sarban
The Theatre of Apparitions by Roger Ballen
The Dore illustrations: Dantes Divine Comedy
Essential Brakhage by Stan Brahage
Deserter by Junji Ito
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
The Exalted and the Abased by Damian Murphy
Convulsive by Joe Koch
The Tenant by Roland Topor
The Stay-Awake Man by Mathew M. Bartlett
The Living Stones by Ithel Colquhoun
The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy
Films:
The Witch Who Came from the Sea by Matt Cimber
Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sebastiane by Derek Jarman
The Hourglass Sanatorium by Wojciech Has
South by Frank Hurley
Beauty and the Beast by Juraj Herz
The Hunter's Diary by Kō Nakahira
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais
To Live and Die in L.A. by William Friedkin
Destiny by Fritz Lang
The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov
A Visitor to a Museum by Konstantin Lopushansky
Onibaba by Kaneto Shindō
Rampo Noir by Akio Jissôji et al
Dead & Buried by Gary Sherman
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
Requiem for a Village by David Gladwell
Martin by George Romero
Death and the Compass by Alex Cox
Black God, White Devil by Glauber Rocha
The Wolf House by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
The Piano Tuner of Earthquake by The Quay Brothers
Conspirators of Pleasure by Jan Svankmajer
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life by The Quay Brothers
De Profundis by Lawrence F. Brose
Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov
Knights of Heaven by Evgeny Yufit
In years passed I would have posted these little reflective pieces on either Twitter or Facebook, but I binned both of those cesspools for good over the course of the year (can't advocate it enough, destroy your socials, you can thank me later). So you lucky folks instead get to judge me for my suspect taste.
Wishing all a happy new year and here's to weird art shite the world over,
Books:
In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files
Collected Poetry and Letters of Arthur Rimbaud
Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Eyes in the Dust by David Peak
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Asphodels by Bernardo Couto Castillo
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman
Panorama of Hell by Hideshi Hino
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim
The Dhammapada
The Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Selected Writings on Art and Artists by Charles Baudelaire
Ghouljaw and Other Stories by Clint Smith
Faunus by James Machin et al
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Paradoxes From Hell by Thomas Ligotti
Une Semaine De Bonte by Max Ernst
The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ringstones by Sarban
The Theatre of Apparitions by Roger Ballen
The Dore illustrations: Dantes Divine Comedy
Essential Brakhage by Stan Brahage
Deserter by Junji Ito
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
The Exalted and the Abased by Damian Murphy
Convulsive by Joe Koch
The Tenant by Roland Topor
The Stay-Awake Man by Mathew M. Bartlett
The Living Stones by Ithel Colquhoun
The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy
Films:
The Witch Who Came from the Sea by Matt Cimber
Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sebastiane by Derek Jarman
The Hourglass Sanatorium by Wojciech Has
South by Frank Hurley
Beauty and the Beast by Juraj Herz
The Hunter's Diary by Kō Nakahira
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais
To Live and Die in L.A. by William Friedkin
Destiny by Fritz Lang
The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov
A Visitor to a Museum by Konstantin Lopushansky
Onibaba by Kaneto Shindō
Rampo Noir by Akio Jissôji et al
Dead & Buried by Gary Sherman
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders
Requiem for a Village by David Gladwell
Martin by George Romero
Death and the Compass by Alex Cox
Black God, White Devil by Glauber Rocha
The Wolf House by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
The Piano Tuner of Earthquake by The Quay Brothers
Conspirators of Pleasure by Jan Svankmajer
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life by The Quay Brothers
De Profundis by Lawrence F. Brose
Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano
Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov
Knights of Heaven by Evgeny Yufit
September 29, 2022
The Hunger of a Soul Seeking Form
I have a new blog of sorts, a semi-regular string of murmurings and musings on matters close to my being. Created as a place for which I can convey inner discussions externally and supplanting the dependency on unwholesome social media platforms. Maybe consider giving the brief intro a read, and if you previously enjoyed my circutious diatribes you might want to check in on occasion.
https://medium.com/@ZC_Hawk/a-letter-...
https://medium.com/@ZC_Hawk/a-letter-...
July 26, 2022
A Sanctuary Of Bones And Ash ; Final Cover and Print Date
🎭 Final cover reveal. 🎭
A SANCTUARY OF BONES AND ASH will be available to order in a little over three months, 31/10/2022. In time for Halloween.
🩸 Cover by the impeccable talent of Don Noble. 🩸
14 tales and a play of exquisite decay and euphoric ruin.
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One black dawn at the edge of time, the cosmos withered and died.
From amid its festering corpse wax, horrors innumerable blossom.
A pallbearer hearkens a broadcast premonition of his own demise...
The spirituous harvest of the writhing Lacuna tree...A seventeenth
century duke racked with woe, haunted by the town he helped
destroy...The final journey of the midnight express along the
doomed Necropolis line...The death rattles of a terrible god
incarnate, caught on VHS, found in the guts of a snuff website
known as A SANCTUARY OF BONES AND ASH.
Presented in this debut collection of fifteen strange stories by
Zac Hawkins.
“Stories of Lovecraftian doom, some a melancholy filled
consideration, with a sprinkling of English folklore. Monsters and
ghouls and hauntings of past times. Vivid, elaborate, descriptions
with some really nice prose scattered throughout.
Left me wanting more”
-Jack Stark, Author of Creases and the Ma Shen Folk Tales Trilogy
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On a personal note, I want to say thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in the collection, and for their patience. 2022 hasn't been the year I anticipated it to be, for good or ill, but I'm glad the extra few months I had to work on this project have benefited it in the long term. I eagerly await your transgressions.
Best,
Zac
A SANCTUARY OF BONES AND ASH will be available to order in a little over three months, 31/10/2022. In time for Halloween.
🩸 Cover by the impeccable talent of Don Noble. 🩸
14 tales and a play of exquisite decay and euphoric ruin.
-------------------------------------------------------
One black dawn at the edge of time, the cosmos withered and died.
From amid its festering corpse wax, horrors innumerable blossom.
A pallbearer hearkens a broadcast premonition of his own demise...
The spirituous harvest of the writhing Lacuna tree...A seventeenth
century duke racked with woe, haunted by the town he helped
destroy...The final journey of the midnight express along the
doomed Necropolis line...The death rattles of a terrible god
incarnate, caught on VHS, found in the guts of a snuff website
known as A SANCTUARY OF BONES AND ASH.
Presented in this debut collection of fifteen strange stories by
Zac Hawkins.
“Stories of Lovecraftian doom, some a melancholy filled
consideration, with a sprinkling of English folklore. Monsters and
ghouls and hauntings of past times. Vivid, elaborate, descriptions
with some really nice prose scattered throughout.
Left me wanting more”
-Jack Stark, Author of Creases and the Ma Shen Folk Tales Trilogy
-------------------------------------------------------
On a personal note, I want to say thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in the collection, and for their patience. 2022 hasn't been the year I anticipated it to be, for good or ill, but I'm glad the extra few months I had to work on this project have benefited it in the long term. I eagerly await your transgressions.
Best,
Zac
