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The Black Monk of Pontefract

by The Night Monitor

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    7" black vinyl.
    Full colour sleeve.
    Black inner sleeve w/ poly liner.
    PVC outer sleeve.
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    Edition of 100.

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about

1966. Pontefract, West Yorkshire. A quiet council house becomes the epicentre of one of Britain's most violent hauntings. The Pritchard family is terrorised by a malevolent force—flying objects, slashed photographs and manifestations of an ominous black-robed figure linked to local legends of a hanged mediaeval monk.

Further reading:

'Poltergeist!' by Colin Wilson (New English Library, 1981)
The Unexplained 150 ['Black monk's reign of terror' by Colin Wilson] (Orbis 1983)

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"Scrivin evokes this horrifying experience over five tracks of unsettling radiophonic electronica. Like something from Jon Pertwee-era ‘Doctor Who’, the two standouts for me are the title track and ‘A Study In Destructive Haunting’ - all ghostly atmospherics, deep, yawning synths, and hints of 50s UFO whirs, for good measure. A hauntological nightmare. Scrivin has also kindly provided some further reading on his Bandcamp page. Read up and listen, if you dare." Fin Milligan - happeningagain.substack.com

credits

released October 4, 2024

Written, produced and performed by Neil Scrivin.
Sleeve design by Neil Scrivin.
Recorded 2020 - 2024.

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