“I love long evening walks through the dark and winding cobbled streets of this Magical city. The fact I’m usually dragging a dead body behind me is quite unimportant.”
Sinister Psychiatrist? Psychopathic Butcher? A twisted Vicar who gets off watching snuff movies? All these and more ….
Steven Dark actor, voiceover artist, Doctor of Philosophy, Sorceror of Despair, writer of gloomy fiction and morose poetry, chocaholic, absinthe connoisseur, lover of fine coffee, afficionado of Gothic fiction, vintage horror films, the neo-Victorian Gothic aesthetic, ghost stories, the paranormal, the occult, the supernatural and just about everything that goes bump in the night.
Creator, Host and Voice of Horror Radio 24/7/365 where ‘Every Day is Halloween’ presenting old time radio shows, gothic horror, mystery and thrillers, classic ghost stories, spine chilling tales of terror and supernatural suspense mingled with a morose medley of macabre and morbid music.
Formerly a Ghost Tour guide and storyteller with Mysterium Tours, Prague, Czech Republic, my One-Man shows include “Embrace the Darkness – The Gothic Imagination and the Meaning of Horror’ which premiered for Halloween at Le Boudoir, Prague, 24th October, 2013, “Who Was Jack the Ripper? A History of Dark and Secret London 1860-1910”, and “Dylan Thomas – the Myth & the Man.”
Author of “Is Hypnosis Dangerous” (published PhD dissertation), the anthology “Poetry in Flesh – Songs of Melancholia & Dark Obsessions” (available from Amazon), the stage play “Each Man …” a simple tragedy of a complex family torn apart by alcoholism, and several full length feature film scripts including “After Dark” a camp horror thriller and “Last Legs” a bitter sweet drama of triumph in the face of insurmountable odds.
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… all mad here!
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Steven Dark is your host-in-residence (… they won’t let me out but I’m sane, I really am!) of Horror Radio 24/7/365, brilliant but mildly eccentric and sometimes purple bearded Sorcerer of Despair, writer of gloomy poetry and dark fiction, Absinthe aficianado, connoisseur of Gothic fiction and chocaholic.
Welcome to the Mad House, my highly individual, very idiosyncratic and tiny piece of the wyrd and wibbly wobbly web. It may, on first acquaintance, appear peculiar, even illogical, but, like ‘Alice’s Wonderland’, it has a peculiar logic of its own. Rather like Dr. Who’s TARDIS the site appears deceptively compact yet is, relatively, extensive. Scattered around are examples of and information about my various artistic and creative endeavours including writing & poetry, acting, media & other absurdities.
The most cursory glance over my site will reveal in a matter of a single moment, a mere blink of an eye, that I am mad about Alice … absolutely mad. Mad as a Hatter in fact! I don’t mean Alice Cooper nor Alice in Chains and I’m not talking about Smokey’s ‘Alice’, Woody Allen’s film ‘Alice’ or Alice Springs in Australia.
I am of course talking about Lewis Carroll’s Alice.
Yes, hands up, I admit that I have something of a wee penchant, as well as for chocolate, coffee, yadayada, for the life and works of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 –1898), better known as Lewis Carroll, Oxford Don and author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), What Alice Did Next, Who the Fuck is Alice?, the sequels Through the Looking-Glass which includes the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark, and of course the final piece in the trilogy What Alice Found There (1871)all of which are sometimes, unfairly to my mind, pigeonholed as being in the genre of literary nonsense.
The point of this and a serious one at that is to contradict the common description that the strange world into which Alice is thrust unsuspectingly is illogical. An inherent paradox given that Carroll was a consummate Logician. Yet Alice’s Wonderland is not as illogical as it first appears. It has a peculiar logic of its own that requires an intuitive leap of lateral thinking to understand it. Difficult in its simplicity. Once the leap is made the logic becomes clear. Our own material world, less than Wonderful in a myriad of ways, is equally topsy-turvy with inverted values where, for example, those in caring professions and those who dedicate their own careers to saving the lives of others are paid a comparative pittance while the vacuous Prima Donnas of the Cult of Celebrity who inhabit the superficially glossy worlds of Sports, Media and Entertainment, many of whom are famous for simply being famous, earn incomes that staggeringly contradict their intrinsic worth. As with Wonderland, yet its polar opposite, our materialistic world has its own peculiar though twisted logic with its global culture of corporate greed that engenders consumerist fascism at the expense of the very environment on which we and every other species depends. Sheer Madness. Welcome to the Mad House!
… and by the way
I retain the copyright to all original intellectual 🙂 work on this site. Please feel free to borrow anything you find useful or interesting and post it but play fair – give me the credit and maybe a link back.
Don’t pretend it’s your own work. You know who you are!!!
Hmm …. now if only I could answer that question!
Steven Dark