"The following book is a reprint of a standalone document that was discovered in a sidewalk library box in the small town of REDACTED in early May of 1973."
published by Hollow Press -May 2025- first printing limited edition: 1500 copies paper Magno usomano 140gr off-set full color printing PADDED Hard Cover + UV spot + SILK BOOKMARK format: A5
Imagine if the Great British Bake Off had a Satanism Week, and you'll capture the approximate tone of HOW TO BAKE A BREADLING. Framed as a found document detailing how to create "breadlings", sentient constructs made of bread dough, Hock's beautifully designed photography and worldbuilding, which employs just the right degree of ambiguity with how it describes the poorly-understood mystical processes involved in their creation and the myriad things that can go wrong, remind me of Richard Littler's similarly bleak and British universe of Scarfolk, with its hints of relict paganism and surreal dream-logic. The book's plot is perhaps a little discursive towards the end, but that's a small issue considering that its main appeal is conjuring up a weird, distinctive supernatural world.