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Mark Chadbourn

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A two-time winner of the prestigious British Fantasy Award, Mark has published his epic, imaginative novels in many countries around the world. He grew up in the mining community of the English Midlands, and was the first person in his family to go to university. After studying Economic History at Leeds, he became a successful journalist, writing for several of the UK's renowned national newspapers as well as contributing to magazines and TV.

When his first short story won Fear magazine's Best New Author award, he was snapped up by an agent and subsequently published his first novel, Underground, a supernatural thriller set in the coalfields of his youth. Quitting journalism to become a full-time author, he has written stories which have tra
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Mark Chadbourn The sources from this era are few and far between, and many of those are questionable. My process when coming to the Attacotti, then, was to look at t…moreThe sources from this era are few and far between, and many of those are questionable. My process when coming to the Attacotti, then, was to look at the space between the information we have and ask a series of questions: why do we know so little about the Attacotti when we have evidence for the other barbarian tribes in the conspiracy, why is there little evidence for their homeland when we know where all the others originated, why were they considered cannibals, a behaviour for which there was no longer a tradition among the western tribes and which, indeed, was considered a monstrous, outsider practice etc? Considering the answers required me to look for parallels elsewhere. We know for instance that there was ritual cannibalism among the inhabitants of Western Europe during the megalith building time and earlier. We believe that many of the (what we now call) Celtic tribes migrated from the Indus Valley. So I considered the possibility of a migratory tribe that kept itself and its practices isolated to explain that lack of records and the surrounding mystery. Looking at the possible cannibalistic rituals of prehistory and then the funerary rites of the Aghori seemed to fill in some of the gaps. Which is a long-winded way of saying that I tried to follow a logical thought process in the absence of any solid sources! There's more in the final book in the sequence, The Bear King.(less)
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Everything Is Connected

You’re floating along a broad, slow-moving river. The landscape on either side is familiar, peaceful, with outcrops of wildness. Suddenly you flow into a gorge where the furious whitewater threatens to flip over your raft and drown you.

Between those towering walls of stone, you have no idea where you are. You just know that if you want to survive you have to cling on for dear life.

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“Tell me about love when you've been with someone for years, cared for them when they're ill, put up with them when they're miserable or grumpy, taken the sharp side of their tongue and still come back. Tell me about love when you've acted quite appallingly, and the other person has still accepted you.”
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“Whenever something strange happens, the Baptists and Methodists always say there must have been witches involved. What they are really talking about are Satanists. Satanists are not witches. Satanists are Christians because Satan is a Christian concept. This kind of confusion has been going on for centuries. Witches weren’t evil. They had an extremely high moral structure. To an actual practicing witch, life was precious because it was a religion linked to nature and the cycles of nature. When a witch saw a child, they didn’t want to sacrifice it – in the child they saw the promise of continuance which they saw in nature. Witchcraft is derivative of the Anglo-Saxon term wiccae, which means wisdom. It referred”
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“Sex is the glue of relationships, Caitlin, and it's what life is all about. It's the opposite of death, of giving up, of getting swamped by... What's out there. See it as symbolic.”
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