Discovering Scarfolk

Posted on 01 November 2017 by Richard Littler

Scarfolk is a town in north west England that did not progress beyond 1979 The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m because they are perpetually running a slight fever Part comedy, part horror, part satire, Discovering Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town Through public information posters, news reports, books, tourist brochures and other ephermera, we learn about the darker side of childhood, school and society in Scarfolk.A massive cult hit online, Scarfolk re creates with shiver inducing accuracy and humour our most nightmarish childhood memories.FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE RE READ. Read Discovering Scarfolk author Richard Littler – kino-fada.fr Welcome to Scarfolk where every day is Friday the 13th.No It really is Just look at the calendar Scarfolk is just your ordinary town in Northwest England.An ordinary town with electrified water and after school activities for the kiddies like Thump Chums The first rule of Thump Chums is you can talk about Thump Chums to whoever you like as long as you thump them. In fact, children are one of Scarfolk s most precious commodities.They believe in educating them and everything, as shown in Welcome to Scarfolk where every day is Friday the 13th.No It really is Just look at the calendar Scarfolk is just your ordinary town in Northwest England.An ordinary town with electrified water and after school activities for the kiddies like Thump Chums The first rule of Thump Chums is you can talk about Thump Chums to whoever you like as long as you thump them. In fact, children are one of Scarfolk s most precious commodities.They believe in educating them and everything, as shown in this math primer for 6 7 year olds This is a r...So you re like me and grew up watching bad UK sci fi especially the TV adaptations of Chocky and The Tripods You are a big fan of John Wyndham The League of Gentlemen tickled your funny bone Discovering Scarfolk is for you Undoubtedly A researcher finds the account and collected paraphenalia from a person who was held against his will in a small northern e...I was tricked, or somehow drugged This is a non fiction fiction book But, is it I mean the 70 s were a freaky time My father smoked at the dinner table while we were eating I am really not sure what to say, this being a non fiction fiction book It was as if Monty Python all of them and Rod Serling hooked up and wrotesomething My favorite parts were the public service posters and book covers that are throughout the book Things like In the playground kids can pick up somethingde I was tricked, or somehow drugged This is a non fiction fiction book But, is it I mean the 70 s were a freaky time My father smoked at the dinner table while we were eating I am really not sure what to say, this being a non fiction fiction book It was as if Monty Python all of them and Rod Serling hooked up and wrotesomething My favorite parts were the public service posters and book covers that are throughout the book Things like In the playground kids can pick up somethingdeadly than parasites or Never go with strange children and Light is expensive , when you re not using your eyes KEEP THEM SHUT, or we will shut them for you I hear you asking what is this about Well I haven t fully decided But we are given 3 reasons in the book See page 180 61 I... Forinformation, please reread this poster.Based on a blog, Discovering Scarfolk is a horror comedy in which the tale of a man s search for his missing children is supplemented with found evidence from the sinister town of Scarfolk, perpetually stuck in a macabre version of the 1970s with an ultra draconian, and probably evil, town council The story ostensibly assembled by an academic with little prior knowledge of the main character s life is illustrated with public information post Forinformation, please reread this poster.Based on a blog, Discovering Scarfolk is a horror comedy in which the tale of a man s search for hi...Hilarious and terrifying in equal measure Full review hereA painful paper cut above the traditional tie in cash in, I was perversely pleased to find this genuinely disturbing There are many cheap and easy comparative options to be had, so here are a few of mine Reggie Perrin stars in the Wicker Man, Children of the Stones remade by Monty Python, The Prisoner set in the Crossroads Motel From the time when abandoned fridges, shiny floors and chip pans were as terrifying as terrorism is now Towards the end it even began to remind me of Danielewski s H A painful paper cut above the traditiona...I can t say when I first stumbled across Littler s Scarfolk site Probably one of the usual suspects Brazill or Billson I m pretty sure it was on Twitter, but it doesn t really matter What I discovered was that I knew that place very well A lot of my friends had been scarred by living in 1970s Britain which seemed to be a time and place determined to foist the uncanny onto all its citizens People would speak in hushed tones with glazed eyes and trembling lips of that Donald Pleasance voice I can t say when I first stumbled across Littler s Scarfolk site Probably one of the usual suspects Brazill or Billson I m pretty sure it was on Twitter, but it doesn t really matter What I discovered was that I knew that place very well A lot of my friends had been scarred by living in 1970s Britain which seemed to be a time and place determined to foist the uncanny onto all its citizens People would speak in hushed tones with glazed eyes and trembling lips of that Donald Pleasance voiced public information film, or the weirdness of all those v...Fans of weird fiction or anything weird, really would do well to pick up this tome, based on the Scarfolk website that posits the existence of a surreal, totalitarian dystopia somewhere in northern England where things have never really moved on from the worst week of 1974 The website is an archive of ingenious mockups of artifacts from th...After P G Wodehouse, the most British book I ve ever read This is a fun, dystopian art book culled from a fantastic blog Like most books adapted from online content, it falls short of its intentions because of the media shift But I still e...I ve always really enjoyed the Scarfolk Council blog ever since I ve discovered it from some source or another,so when it was announced that the supernatural totalitarian community would be committed to print, I was very anxious to see the result.Sadly, the book format added some problems to the winning formula First of all, the fictional account of the demise of the Bush family in Scarfolk don t contribute at all, I think.The excessively tongue in cheek quality of the narrative cheapens the sa I ve always really enjoyed the Scarfolk Council blog ever since I ve discovered it from some source or another,so when it was announced that the supernatural totalitarian community would be committed to print, I was very anxious to see the result.Sadly, the book format added some problems to the winning formula First of all, the fictional account of the demise of the Bush family in Scarfolk don t contribute at all, I think.The excessively tongue in cheek quality of the narrative cheapens the satire, especially given the dark nature of some of the themes, and the humour falls flat in many places Also, the narrative develo...

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01 November 2017

Richard Littler