Dead of Summer: Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer Publisher / Abacus It opens with cotton candy

It opens with cotton candy and marshmallow

Known as the Bush Tukka Woman

traditional Japanese studio practice and its countermovements

or amongst the trees in a nature preserve – the great outdoors is the place to be

Launched in 2014

Dead of Summer: Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer Publisher / Abacus It opens with cotton candyMay Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in todays world those that observe their ancient ways are few. Setting out on a mission to re weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: