Wild Marjoram Tea – Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs
Wild Marjoram Tea by Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs / ISBN 9781999629878 / 121-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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Wild Marjoram Tea is one of the standalone texts that grow out of the peninsula’s world of weird fiction and strange tales.
As with The Night of Turns, the new book explores folklore and folk horror, yet it is also a deeply moving exploration of growing up, change and the nature of being.
Beautiful, strange and terrifying, Wild Marjoram Tea draws on a wide range of British folklore sources – from the myriad treasures of English and Scottish song to the disquieting cruelty of legend – to create a distinctive world of unsettlement.
As ever, it might not be for you—
