The Night of Turns – Edita Bikker
The Night of Turns by Edita Bikker / ISBN 9781999629847 / 184-page paperback with flaps, published in 2021 by Broodcomb Press
From my first batch of books from Broodcomb Press, a UK publisher specializing in weird fiction and beyond: “Encompassing poetry, strange tales and experimental fiction, Broodcomb Press is a home for the writing that belongs here: disquieting truths about the region (“the peninsula”) – tales both eerie and shocking – together with exploring the fantastic/everyday meaning of what it means to be human.”
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“The Night of Turns” is a tale of folk horror where caravans travel a circular path without cease, moving from garden to garden as dictated by the sinister Game of the Goose.
This is a land where unsettlement is a deeply-treasured belief; a land where theatre is used as a weapon; a land in thrall to the shadowy figure of the beekeeper—
‘[The book] is a tale of capture, a history of a seduction. I do not believe in the reality of what [Edita Bikker] describes, but neither do I see (as many have) the sinister spoor of a cult in these pages, unless it is a cult with no guru; a cult whose guru is Chance itself.” – From the preface
