Anorak Arts (logo design by Awais) is an ongoing series of narrative ambient recordings featuring authors whose works dwell within the public domain.

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Deckard Croix

H.P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep is the seventh entry in the Anorak Arts narrative/dark ambient series. An asylum intern is assigned to evaluate a delusional murderer whose descriptions of fantastic visions contradict his sub-intelligence.

"...his glowing titanic visions, though described in a barbarous, disjointed jargon, were assuredly
H.P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep is the seventh entry in the Anorak Arts narrative/dark ambient series. An asylum intern is assigned to evaluate a delusional murderer whose descriptions of fantastic visions contradict his sub-intelligence.

"...his glowing titanic visions, though described in a barbarous, disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive."
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A Missa do Gallo (Midnight Mass)

Deckard Croix

The fifth in this series of dark ambient/narrative recordings, A Missa do Gallo, is a provocative enigma. A young student eagerly awaits to witness midnight mass in Rio de Janeiro for the first time. As he waits at his uncle's home, he becomes engaged in a conversation with the mistress of the house whose intentions are acute but ambiguous. De
The fifth in this series of dark ambient/narrative recordings, A Missa do Gallo, is a provocative enigma. A young student eagerly awaits to witness midnight mass in Rio de Janeiro for the first time. As he waits at his uncle's home, he becomes engaged in a conversation with the mistress of the house whose intentions are acute but ambiguous. De Assis' softly surrealistic tale of unspoken intimations is reminiscent and fleeting, a capsule in time.
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Produced by Anorak Arts
Narration/instruments by Deckard Croix
Written by Jaoquim Maria Machado de Assis
Originally published in 1899
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson
Artwork by Juan Martinez
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The Lurking Fear

Deckard Croix

The fourth in this narrative/dark ambient series, Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear follows an unnamed narrator whose curiosity propels him to investigate the mysterious (and often murderous) "lurking fear" which haunts the region surrounding the looming Tempest Mountain and enigmatic Martense mansion.
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The Music of Erich Zann

Deckard Croix

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.
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A Hunger Artist

Deckard Croix

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.
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The Festival

Deckard Croix

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.
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