Video by Irena Kinetica

For me, Ray Harryhausen’s effects will always be superior to anything that computer graphics can ever do – and I don’t meant that out of nostalgia. The way Harryhausen did it, there’s an unreal quality about the effects that isn’t, however, unrealistic (which is how CG looks to me). I’ve always felt that if you saw real monsters in real life they’d have the same look and feel as Harryhausen’s monsters. They’d move in that same jerky unreal way because that’s how abnormal beasts should move – naturally! As a kid, I used to have a pull-out poster on my wall of the Cyclops from “The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad”. Can you believe this film was made in 1958?

My poem ‘Doomcall’ will feature in Mike Allen’s “Mythic Delirium” in the Spring, together with:

Día de los Muertos • F.J. Bergmann
The Beast • Rachel Manija Brown
Mice • Beth Cato
Maud Gonne, After • Alicia Cole
The Serpent Explains the Nature of Tricksters to His Wife • Ruthanna Emrys
The Princess Becomes a Prophet • Jeannine Hall Gailey
Wheels • Adele Gardner
The Last Siren • Andrew Gilstrap
The Green Green Rain • Neile Graham
skin • Lynn Hardaker
Circe in Manhattan • Wendy Howe
Gleaming • Mari Ness
The Theatre Golems • Dominik Parisien
Rare Annie • Caitlyn Paxson
How to Bring Your Dead Lover Back • K.L. Pereira
The Motor Prayer • Donald Raymond
Doomcall • Alistair Rennie
Persephone Set Free • Sofia Samatar
Revising Horror (The Wrong Mouth) • David Sandner
The Nostalgia of Roads • Alexandra Seidel
The Ceremony of Innocence • Sonya Taaffe