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Andy Paciorek

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in Bishop Auckland, Durham, The United Kingdom

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Art, Horror, Paranormal

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Creator of Strange Lands, Human Chimaera, Black Earth, the Beautiful-Grotesque, Folk Horror Revival, Urban Wyrd Review & other peculiar things.

Drawn mainly to the worlds of myth, folklore, symbolism, decadence, curiosa, anomaly, dark romanticism and otherworldly experience, and fascinated both by the beautiful and the grotesque and the twilight threshold consciousness where these boundaries blur. The mist-gates, edges and liminal zones where nature borders supernature and daydreams and nightmares cross paths are of great inspiration.

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	Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katherine Beem (Editor), G.B. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folk Horror Revival: Corpse Roads by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katherine Beem (Editor), Dan Hunt (Techical Support) 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folk Horror Revival: Harvest Hymns. Volume I- Twisted Roots by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jim Peters (Editor), Grey Malkin (Sub-Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otherworldly: Folk Horror Revival at The British Museum 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folk Horror Revival: Harvest Hymns. Volume II - Sweet Fruits by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jim Peters (Editor), Richard Hing (Goodreads Author) (Sub-Editor) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd. 1: Spirits of Time by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Hing (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Grey Malkin (Editor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Lands: A Field-Guide to the Celtic Otherworld 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geometric Adult Coloring Journal: Stress-Relieving Designs and Activities 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folk Horror Revival: Urban Wyrd -2. Spirits of Place by Andy Paciorek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Grey Malkin (Editor), Richard Hing (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art For Mindfulness: Geometrics 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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SHRUNKEN HEADS (Tsantsa): "Out of the Dark, Into the Light" / McGinty

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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

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“!The true magick of art is the discovery of the sublime within the mundane, the beautiful within the grotesque, the light within the darkness and all those reversed.!”
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“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”
― N. Scott Momaday

tags: self

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“I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine

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“We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too much importance to these ill-understood arcana of the night-side of nature, we have attached too little.”
― Catherine Crowe, The Night Side of Nature

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“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle