Aeternal Flux II

A SERIES DEDICATED TO FEATURING SOME OF THE BETTER POSTS FROM OUR PARENT BLOG, AETERNAL FLUX.  Masterpieces of 70s TV Horror: 'Baby' from Nigel Kneale's Beasts More often than not, it's a losing game when the adult fan of horror-themed films and television tries to recapture childhood thrills. Images and concepts that were once deeply impressive are now mundane. Special effects or monster designs that a kid will buy into completely are an unconvincing rip-off to the grown-up who tries to rediscover their  frisson . Rarely, a jewel with staying power can be found amongst the dross, rising above technical limitations or mediocre performances. During a recent YouTube search for BBC adaptations of M. R. James stories, I stumbled across a video package someone's put together of scenes from classic 70s British TV horror.  At the end of the montage is the terrifying, culminating image of a teleplay that disturbed me profoundly when I first encountered it as an eight-ye

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UNDEAD MEAN(S) Forged in heaven or hell, It was as if it still had something to live for It crawled from the grave all enslaved  by disease and geometries elsewhere The Last Ones they cried,  "Will we ever  see the Return of the Great Wheel?" And cried as though crying was dust  made chance.   Chance will yet solve all the dead tissue of thoughts. Chances are their rictus smiles will grin at fortune. It's wrong to spoil their earthless song with remembrance without number. The Last Ones they cried, "Where's the  Great Wave?" Enflamed where carbon spoils, it  Crawled with no sun or form. Patterns impede its arc, The void she swirls in eddies and spills. Rears the Great Steed, Disdains the Great Mane, And so the once great are estranged. And all temposense is shattered.   Suggested musical accompaniment: 'Such Hawks Such Hounds' by Dead Meadow .  https://reverberationappreciation.bandcamp.com/track/such-hawks-such-h