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Surrender To The Tentacles

from Out There by Chris Harris

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I wheeled out my best Christopher Lee voice for this one. It was inspired by the dedication that China Miéville write for me in my copy of a first edition of his science fiction novel, Kraken—which is easily one of the most 'out there' pieces of fiction I've read. It's great fun and absolutely bonkers and it won the 2011 Locus award for best fantasy novel.

A few years ago I sat down and read Howard Phillips Lovecraft's entire body of work, and the strongest ick factor I got from it was from the racism and bigotry on display. He was not a nice person.

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A squamous presence
Rugose sense of dread
Feels like H P Lovecraft
got inside my head

These observations
completely unexplained
Eliminate the obvious
Something else remains

And from the headland
Above the noise of crashing waves
I hear the call
It summons all
Long-buried trauma
freshly risen from the grave
drawing pentacles
Surrender to the tentacles...

Amidst the tumult
my cries will go unheard
a strange compulsion
to chant the words

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from Out There, released August 4, 2022

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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