Vorrh Excavation Project
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A Brian Catling fan page
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Where Does it All Come From? vimeo.com/842441405
Avoiding Blake: y2u.be/4KmsX7-O7Yg
Cast Squid: y2u.be/28A2u0IMF6E
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Where Does it All Come From? vimeo.com/842441405
Avoiding Blake: y2u.be/4KmsX7-O7Yg
Cast Squid: y2u.be/28A2u0IMF6E
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An Incompleat Brian Catling Bibliography*
Books (Fiction) TitleYearPublisherISBNDownriver (Iain Sinclair)†1993Random House978-0679420620Bobby Awl2007Etruscan Books978-1901538618The Vorrh2012Honest Publishing978-09571427182015Random House978...
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A Brian Catling bibliography for the curious, especially for those who like them thorough shorturl.at/emAC1
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Some days, the only tenable position you can take up is Brian Catling decrying “I FLOOD THE LAND!” over melancholy piano music. catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
I Flood The Land, by Brian Catling & James Young
16 track album
catling-young.bandcamp.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Some days, the only tenable position you can take up is Brian Catling decrying “I FLOOD THE LAND!” over melancholy piano music. catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
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B Catling: Where Does It All Come From?, Arena, 2021
YouTube video by Kenzdawg
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January 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Dome Rain Falling Stones
Brian Catling RA
Brian Catling RA
January 3, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Dome Rain Falling Stones
Brian Catling RA
Brian Catling RA
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I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
December 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Thanks to the Royal Society of Sculptors for welcoming me as a member - pictures on my shiny new page! sculptors.org.uk/artists/elea...
Eleanor Crook MRSS | Royal Society of Sculptors
sculptors.org.uk
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks to the Royal Society of Sculptors for welcoming me as a member - pictures on my shiny new page! sculptors.org.uk/artists/elea...
Hello, Loverboy!
Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.6: our post on Blemmyes, mythical headless humanoids whose eyes, nose, and mouth are embedded in their breast: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...
(Full Top 10 here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12...)
(Full Top 10 here: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12...)
December 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hello, Loverboy!
Best advice
finally finished Brian Catling's The Vorrh trilogy
a man in a suit and tie says accept the mystery in front of a house
Alt: accept the mystery
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Best advice
Candleye
Brian Catling & David Tolley
Brian Catling & David Tolley
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Candleye
Brian Catling & David Tolley
Brian Catling & David Tolley
Happy Christmas folks!
Gloom settled over here three years ago and with good reason. It seemed insoluble until I FLOOD THE LAND by James Young and the late Brian Catling. The record is nothing short of cathartic and embodies the best way I would like to remember Brian: a surprise at every turn.
December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Happy Christmas folks!
Gloom settled over here three years ago and with good reason. It seemed insoluble until I FLOOD THE LAND by James Young and the late Brian Catling. The record is nothing short of cathartic and embodies the best way I would like to remember Brian: a surprise at every turn.
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Gloom settled over here three years ago and with good reason. It seemed insoluble until I FLOOD THE LAND by James Young and the late Brian Catling. The record is nothing short of cathartic and embodies the best way I would like to remember Brian: a surprise at every turn.
Sometimes I see a drawing and wonder if Brian might've done it.
Gustave Flaubert was born #onthisday in 1821. Read about his failed masterpiece The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and the later illustrations by Odilon Redon which finally made the work come to life: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-redemption-of-saint-anthony #OTD
December 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Sometimes I see a drawing and wonder if Brian might've done it.
This is one of the best things ever
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James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
I Flood The Land, by Brian Catling & James Young
16 track album
catling-young.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is one of the best things ever
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James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
I Flood The Land, by Brian Catling & James Young
16 track album
catling-young.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
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Autumnal oneiric bangers!
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...
October 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Autumnal oneiric bangers!
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...
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If you missed Hadzihalilovic's previous movie Earwig, based on the novel by B. Catling, I wouldn't blame you because it was barely released, but it is in my mind one of the great films of the last decade:
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letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
Paul Duane’s reviews of Earwig
Paul Duane’s reviews of Earwig
letterboxd.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
If you missed Hadzihalilovic's previous movie Earwig, based on the novel by B. Catling, I wouldn't blame you because it was barely released, but it is in my mind one of the great films of the last decade:
letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...
Late announcements are rarely useful, but CABARET MELANCHOLIQUE will be in LIVE ART ZINE, December 6th at 7:30 PM Nørrebrogade 5C, basement, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Late announcements are rarely useful, but CABARET MELANCHOLIQUE will be in LIVE ART ZINE, December 6th at 7:30 PM Nørrebrogade 5C, basement, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Finally found copies of The Vorrh and The Erstwhile by B Catling at a used bookstore yesterday, and I look forward to have a very psychedelic Christmas vacation.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Finally found copies of The Vorrh and The Erstwhile by B Catling at a used bookstore yesterday, and I look forward to have a very psychedelic Christmas vacation.
(L) THE CONJUROR - Hieronymus Bosch
(R) ANOTHER CONJUROR'S TABLE - Brian Catling RA
(R) ANOTHER CONJUROR'S TABLE - Brian Catling RA
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
(L) THE CONJUROR - Hieronymus Bosch
(R) ANOTHER CONJUROR'S TABLE - Brian Catling RA
(R) ANOTHER CONJUROR'S TABLE - Brian Catling RA
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Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...
The website to Etruscan Books, run by Nicholas Johnson and publisher of B Catling's A Court of Miracles and Bobby Awl, appears off. The press does not appear on the Small Publishers Fair list either. etruscanbooks.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The website to Etruscan Books, run by Nicholas Johnson and publisher of B Catling's A Court of Miracles and Bobby Awl, appears off. The press does not appear on the Small Publishers Fair list either. etruscanbooks.com
Many happy returns to the Warlock Activist of Northampton, whose recent work include Illuminations, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic (with Steve Moore), donating towards TWO community hubs, and The Great When, first in The Long London Quintet series.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Many happy returns to the Warlock Activist of Northampton, whose recent work include Illuminations, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic (with Steve Moore), donating towards TWO community hubs, and The Great When, first in The Long London Quintet series.
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La montaña hueca de B. Catling és una festassa de la imaginació: aventures criminals, intriga monàstica, bruixeria revolucionària, bestiari al·lucinant, duel erudit, abominacions religioses, invocacions pictòriques, realitats inconcebibles i moltes coses més!
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
La montaña hueca de B. Catling és una festassa de la imaginació: aventures criminals, intriga monàstica, bruixeria revolucionària, bestiari al·lucinant, duel erudit, abominacions religioses, invocacions pictòriques, realitats inconcebibles i moltes coses més!
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I just found out that the guy (Brian Catling) who wrote the amazingly weird & wonderful 'The Vorrh' (which I just finished & loved) also did the beautiful glass pillow memorial sculpture at the Tower. ARTISTIC RANGE boy howdy
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I just found out that the guy (Brian Catling) who wrote the amazingly weird & wonderful 'The Vorrh' (which I just finished & loved) also did the beautiful glass pillow memorial sculpture at the Tower. ARTISTIC RANGE boy howdy