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Welcome to the weird and warped world of Scarfolk, a town forever
trapped in the 1970s... Based on the cult blog, the massive online
hit which has over a million page views in a year, this is an
illustrated guide to the Lancashire town which brings nightmarish
childhood memories relentlessly back to life. Fans of Charlie
Brooker, The League of Gentlemen and Brass Eye will love this...
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 'Delicious and hilarious' -- ***** Reader
review 'Witty and savage' -- ***** Reader review 'Brutally funny
and scarily accurate' -- ***** Reader review 'Marvellously dark and
dangerous' -- ***** Reader review
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"Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress
beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In
Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be
in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight
fever..." Part-comedy, part-horror, part-satire, Discovering
Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town.
Through public information posters, news reports, books, tourist
brochures and other ephermera, we learn about the darker side of
childhood, school and society in Scarfolk. A massive cult hit
online, Scarfolk re-creates with shiver-inducing accuracy and
humour our most nightmarish childhood memories. The perfect gift or
self-purchase for any forty or fifty-something with a dark sense of
humour!
'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that
would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent 'A
brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A SCARFOLK SANCTIONED BOOK
AUTHORISED EDITION, AS SEEN ON THE RADIO The Scarfolk Annual is the
facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west
of England in August 2018. The shop, and indeed town, do not wish
to be identified as they are keen to "discourage the
'occult-totalitarian tourism' that as afflicted other areas of
Britain" as people hunt for further socio-archaeological traces of
the mysterious, missing town of Scarfolk - Britain's own Brutalist
Atlantis. Apart from the archive of Scarfolk materials which was
sent anonymously to the late Dr Ben Motte and formed the basis of
the book Discovering Scarfolk, this children's annual is, to date,
the only complete artefact from Scarfolk ever to be unearthed 'in
the wild'. It's clear The Scarfolk Annual was not written to
entertain children at Christmastime; its purpose was to
indoctrinate young minds; in fact, one might go as far as to say
destroy young minds, to an end that has been lost to us.
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