The Scarfolk Annual

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Littler stays true to the essential feeling of Scarfolk – suffocating, paranoid existential horror. Strictly Come Dancing sashays onto our screens again with a fantastic new cast of stars ready to brave the dance floor. Swot up on your dance expertise and discover how the Strictly magic is created. With exclusive interviews with the pro dancers, their celebrity partners and the fabulous judges, this is your perfect partner for this year’s Strictly extravaganza. In these brain shattering days, Scarfolk is your guide and only friend… Bitingly funny, sometimes scary, and always brilliant’ Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim

It deserves to be discovered on bookshelves by poor unsuspecting souls for years to come’ We Are Cult Whether it’s going on the run with an elephant in Dennis & Gnasher, or leaping through dimensions in Rubi’s Screwtop Science, they’ll prove there’s no such thing as a normal day in Beanotown! Always a joy to see their little faces darken on the morning of December 25th when they unwrap the Scarfolk Annual’ Ian Rankin The third in Noon’s Nyquist trilogy, a series of bizarre horror-fantasy novels (which trend further towards horror with each new installment) that sees his hardboiled but in-over-his-head detective John Nyquist arriving at the small village of Hoxley-on-the-Hale with a series of disturbing photographs and a case to solve. But the town is embroiled in an odd series of traditions all centered around the various saints they worship, and the locals are wildly unhelpful when Nyquist calls on them for help, preferring to drug him or otherwise lie to him to protect their secrets. The weirdness of Hoxley is the perfect foil for Nyquist, who is no stranger to weirdness but still finds the town throwing him repeated curveballs, and Noon perfectly hits the flavor of small-town folk horror with the book, including vague references to saints who might actually be pagan deities, and of course the masked agent of chaos (and homicidal vegetation) found at the center of it all. Sadly, there definitely doesn’t seem to be a single Marvel related annual on offer this year – a sign of the times? We didn’t get a reply from past publishers to queries about this, unfortunately.

Inside the Match Annual 2020 you can find the ultimate guide to Euro 2020, epic interviews with the stars, plus the UK and Ireland dream team and also discover everything you need to know about Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, Salah, Mbappe, Maguire, Hazard, Pogba and all the other top footballers. a b c Simon Usborne (17 April 2013). "How to wash a child's brain: Designer Richard Littler creates fictional world based on terrifying public service films – Features – Films – The Independent". The Independent . Retrieved 14 October 2014. Once the heart had been placed in its new host body, over which a medi-legal incantation had been recited, the object would become imbued with the personality of the deceased. However, there were often side effects, for example not being able to say certain words such as 'artichoke', 'help' and 'please kill me, I did not give my consent for this', to name but a few.

Horrific and hilarious … a dystopic vision of an England that would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies’ Independent In these brain shattering days, Scarfolk is your guide and only friend’ Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman SlimThe Scarfolk Annual demands that you read it multiple times to decode every secret inside it. It’s beautifully built to conjure a hilarious yet sinister world built on the foundations of Britain’s genre fiction. Littler’s creation is easily able to stand beside works such as The League of Gentlemen and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace as a unique addition to the canon of contemporary weird Britain. It doesn’t hurt that the book is also very, very funny. Apart from the archive of Scarfolk materials which was sent anonymously to the late Dr Ben Motte and formed the basis of the book Discovering Scarfolk, this children’s annual is, to date, the only complete artefact from Scarfolk ever to be unearthed ‘in the wild’. Beverley Turner (25 April 2013). "It's time to toughen up kids. Start terrifying them 'Scarfolk' style – The Telegraph". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 October 2014. We already live in Scarfolk, just without the stellar graphic design to keep us amused through this dystopian nightmare.

Mark Sinclair (27 March 2013). "Creative Review – Have you been to Scarfolk?". Creative Review. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015 . Retrieved 14 October 2014. Apocalyptic toys were all the rage in the late 1970s, not that they were thought of as apocalyptic at the time. Citizens didn't fear their annihilation; they quite looked forward to demonstrating their 'Dunkirk spirit' with the misguided belief that it would somehow bring the country together. It didn't occur to them that their dogmatic nationalism might instead bring about the demise of the nation. In actual fact, all the subjects’ brains produced exactly the same image: An electrified cage containing a baby monkey whose mind had been destroyed by medical experiments, systematic torture and the jarring sound of a toy mechanical bear mercilessly beating a drum 24 hours a day. Scarfolk was initially presented as a fake blog which purportedly releases artefacts from archive of the fictional town council, Scarfolk Council. Artefacts include public information literature, out-of-print books, record and cassette sleeves, advertisements, television programme screenshots, household products, and audio and video, many of which suggest brands and imagery recognisable from the period. Additionally, artefacts are usually accompanied by short fictional vignettes that are also presented as factual and that introduce the town's residents. The public information literature often ends with the strapline: "For more information please reread."Though the charity raised awareness, it had little impact on the number of people impacting the valuable concrete from great heights.

In these brain shattering days, Scarfolk is your guide and only friend … Bitingly funny, sometimes scary, and always brilliant” - Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim In addition to the annuals listed above, there’s are Broons and Commando calendars on offer, and a host of official annuals focused on just one top flight football team, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and more. In 1972, the government drew up plans to construct a deportation facility off the coast of Ireland that could house as many as 70 million people - the entire population of the UK, if need be. The intention was to make it an exact replica of the United Kingdom and call it Bad Kingdom. Nobody, it seemed, fulfilled the increasingly stringent criteria of what it meant to be truly British. MATCH is the UK’s bestselling football annual and is top of Christmas wishlists for footy fans everywhere. Crime in Scarfolk did not rise substantially between 1976 and 1977, largely due to the latest in thought detection techniques* and random public executions. The government, however, did announce that there had been a significant increase in naughtiness.

Council archive

There are real highlights though – What is a Library? is a stand-out stand-out – plus a neat hidden running thread. To his credit, Littler manages to stay true throughout to the essential feeling of Scarfolk – suffocating, paranoid existential horror, basically. Something this dark wouldn’t make it onto everyone’s Christmas list, but the cognoscenti will treasure it and it deserves to be discovered on bookshelves by poor unsuspecting souls for years to come. The orphans were children of disgraced artists, academics and other intellectuals who disappeared during the New Truth Purges of September 1977**. Put it this way: you’re walking along the street and come face to face with a drooling man who has a glassy look in his eye and a selection of illegal weapons strewn about his person. Without the faculty of fear you might be tempted to engage the man in polite conversation and perhaps ask him why he is drooling down his own surplus army fatigues as he aims one of his assault rifles squarely at your face. This, I have to tell you, is not the best way to survive the situation. Walking away swiftly, running even, is almost certainly more applicable.