"So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person…

I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact

"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

Main works discussed:
The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle
The Courtyard - Alan Moore
Neonomicon - Alan Moore
Providence - Alan Moore

"So you think you know what terror is
As it stares from the newspaper page
Yeah of course you all know what horror is
It's the rage of the age
Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus
It oozes from every pore
Murder doesn't bother to whisper
In this fucking town it roars"
- The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47

"Old time, something come back again
If you have a start, then you must have an end
None of them ever could've test with the pen
My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley

Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.

Interlude by the great Evil Sword.

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