Anorak Arts (logo design by Awais) is an ongoing series of narrative ambient works featuring authors dwelling within the public domain. Upcoming releases for 2022 include: Zhuangzi, The Lurking Fear (Lovecraft), and Midnight Mass (de Assis).

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Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau)
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
The Whisperer in Darkness (Lovecraft)

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The Music of Erich Zann

Deckard Croix

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The third entry in this spoken word/ambient series is H.P. Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann. The story follows a university student who takes up rooms at an old tenement on the mysterious Rue d'Auseil. On the top floor of this building lives Erich Zann, a German viol player whose bizarre melodies lure the young student to determine their

The third entry in this spoken word/ambient series is H.P. Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann. The story follows a university student who takes up rooms at an old tenement on the mysterious Rue d'Auseil. On the top floor of this building lives Erich Zann, a German viol player whose bizarre melodies lure the young student to determine their purpose.

A Hunger Artist

Deckard Croix

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The titular hunger artist displays his skeletal frame to the delight of onlookers from within a locked cage. Marshalled about Europe by his impresario, he is, at first, praised, but eventually his fame recedes.

The second in a series of spoken word/ambient projects featuring works in the public domain.

The Festival

Deckard Croix

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An unnamed narrator visits the sea town of Kingsport to attend a centennial festival as part of the Yuletide.
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Ambient/spoken word rendition of H.P. Lovecraft's The Festival, conceptualised by Deckard Croix. The first in a series featuring works dwelling in the public domain.