Munky

By: B. Catling, Dave McKean (Designed by)

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Paperback | 6 February 2021

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116 Pages

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19.84 x 12.85 x 0.71

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"There hadn't been monks at the abbey since 1600. Not living ones, that is."

When the puckish spirit of a monk begins haunting the storied village of Pulborough, known for its ancient abbey, Maud Garner, manager of the Coach and Horses Inn, arranges for the famous ghost hunter, Walter Prince, to come investigate. And from there, things spiral out of control.

Peopled with richly drawn Dickensian grotesques and filled with bizarre and comical incident, Munky is as compelling as it is antic. Catling transports the reader to an interwar England in the throes of change. Part bizarre ghost story, part whimsical farce, part idiosyncratic literary experiment, it could be described as P. G. Wodehouse collaborating with Raymond Roussel, with a dash of M. R. James, if it weren't so uniquely its own thing.

Industry Reviews

"B. Catling's Munky might be called M. R. James with a soupcon of P. G. Wodehouse and a dash of Viz."

- The Scotsman

"Something a little different - a clever, witty, thoughtful book that leaves lingering images of a bitter winter, and a lost soul seeking a home."

- Supernatural Tales

"Brian Catling's peculiar genius for observation, and the testing and squeezing of location, always honours what Blake called "the Vegetated Mortal Eye's perverted & single vision". It sometimes feels that the Eye has been removed and left overnight in a glass, such are the layers of spectral comedy swaggering into view. Life through the bottom of a deep pint jar. Munky is a delirious blend of terror and pantomime. The spine-chilling realisation, for those who have trespassed anywhere near this territory, where river licks at ecclesiastical land, is that it is all true."

- Iain Sinclair

"[Munky] is like watching one of those wonderful little one off supernatural TV plays they were so good at making in the 70s like The Stone Tape or Murrain"

- Wyrd Britain

"Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts, makes me realise how little imagination I have."

- Terry Gilliam

"Its a glorious creepy world that Brian creates and inhabits."

- Alan Moore

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