Post-Romantic Nightmares.

The Post Romantic Period, to my understanding, began around 1848 with the publishing of The Communist Manifesto and the establishment of The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, and ended with the First World War. It was the time of The Gold Dawn, of The Empire, of vast social struggle; a time of Nihilism and Paganism, Internationalism and Nationalism, a literary period whose figureheads were Poe, Wilde, Baudelaire and Lovecraft. 

The war which marked its ending was called The Great War For Civilisation, and sometimes its seems like civilisation lost. The Post Romantic Period was like the swan song of 'civilisation' before the current age of Barbary- The Post Modern Age.

We live in the Post Modern Nightmare, but this blog is about The Post Romantic Nightmare; which is rather prettier and more elegant, and fucked up in a more interesting way

So far there is some poetry, a short story, an essay, and the introduction to a novel which I wrote a few years ago, for your amusement.. May add some more poetry, essays and short stories at some point. And currently writing a novel called Vampyre: Hunting The Moon, which I may post bits of  sometime.

 (Above is a picture by Harry Clarke, one of my favourite dead artists, below is a picture by Holly Payne, one of my favourite undead artists.)