Author: Ed: Gyrus (Steven Taylor)
Publisher: Dreamflesh Press
Price: £9.00
Isbn: 9780955419607

Jam today!

Part of the pleasure of forteana is the psychological liberation of stepping outside the bounds of conventional reality. The lively mind likes to cock a snook at the leaden head.

What if there were a whole realm of super-extraordinary impossible beliefs half an hour before breakfast?

There is a dimension way, way out where flesh and dream coalesce, explored by people with names such as Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Gyrus, Bella Basura, Pablo Amaringo, and Lars Holger Holm, not to mention the formidable Dave Lee.

Dreamflesh is their journal.

In Strawberry Fair, Armpit Hair, we praise hairy women like Wilgeforce, the poor peasant girl who became a full-bearded saint.

The article “Em’balm” describes “an elaborate and intense ritual process developed towards the September EquinoXuliuqE of 2005, involving the individual embalming and mummification of initiates after some powerful group work,” a practice quite as unusual as it sounds.

“Stories on a Stick” is an interview with film maker Donal Ruane concerning the Peruvian hallucinogen ayahuasca.

The fundamental premise is that the world currently needs new paradigms to live by. Intelligent, literate and well-produced, this curious publication reflects the multi-faceted tastes of its editor.

One can only hope it survives the narrow razamatazz of the marketplace.