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Fane

**Profile**

Fane is a second year student and a member of both Dance Club and the Sensha-do team.

**Appearance**

Fane is a relatively small girl with untidy light brown hair and lightly tanned skin. Her most striking feature is that she is heterochromatic, that is to say, she had eyes of different colours. Her right eye is pale green while her left eye is soft brown. She often wears the Dance Club outfit black tights with her Sensha-do uniform or instead of knee high socks when in school uniform.

**Personality**

Fane is often the driver for one of the tanks. She is sometimes quite subservient to Finn, the leader of Dance Club. Fane is indifferent in her opinion about St. Gloriana, as she thinks there are far more important things to worry about.

**Trivia**

* Fane's real name is Fujiko Nagamine.
* She is 156cm (5ft 1½in) tall.

**Appearances**

**Spoilers**

**Fane gallery**
Dalua - Spoilers

* Dalua's attempts to find a more exciting hobby, following her friend Avoca's 'gut feeling' each time, did not go well.
	+ She joined the Hiking Club and she got lost on her first hike.
	+ She attempted sailing with the Sailing Club but got very cold and wet.
	+ She joined the school's Dance Club, where a couple of clumsy missed steps at her first performance (only days after joining) resulted in a broken ankle and put her on crutches for over a month.
	+ She enrolled in the Incense Club, and nearly set the school on fire.

* In **The Legend of Shamrock,** she believes the idea to join the Sensha-do team is the first time Avoca's 'gut feeling' has ever been right.
Avoca - Appearances

**Fan Fiction**

**The Legend of Shamrock** by CrabbyCakes

Avoca is a supporting character in this story which charts Shamrock's fortunes in a new tournament.

**Speedster and Spymaster: An Unlikely Love Story** by Rosy

Avoca has a cameo appearance in Chapter 5 of this story which focuses on Assam and Rosehip.

**Over the Hills and Under Canvas**

Avoca appears in this one shot where the Shamrock team try to put up a tent.
Moy

**Profile**

Moy is a second year student and a member of both Dance Club and the Sensha-do team.

**Appearance**

Moy is short, stocky and strong. She has neck-length dark brown hair and deep brown eyes.

**Personality**

Moy is one of the strongest girls in the school, so often has the position of loader for the Vickers Mk D. Despite her considerable strength, Moy is a gentle giant with a soft heart and would never hurt anyone. She does not partake in the rough and tumble fights as much as her teammates do, although she still enjoys having fun.

Moy doesn't care much for either side of the pro- or anti-St. Gloriana divide in the school.

**Trivia**

* Moy's real name is Maiya Kodama.
* Her height is 152cm (5ft).

**Appearances**

**Spoilers**

**Moy gallery**
An Inhabitant of Carcosa

CADABR-70 2020

7"

For a story not even counting 1500 words, and published nearly a century and a half ago, Ambrose Bierce's “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” has become the foundation for an entire world and mythos, with Robert W. Chambers appropriating the place name for his collection, The King in Yellow, a decade after Bierce's work, and then H.P. Lovecraft then referencing Chambers' book in his own short story, “The Whisperer in Darkness” in 1931.

The tale, “imparted to the medium Bayrolles by the spirit Hoseib Alar Robardin,” is read by Anthony D. P. Mann and scored by Chris Bozzone on this 7-inch vinyl record. As the tale is told, we learn that teller was “prostrated by a sudden fever,” during which he had suffered “periods of delirium” so powerful that he had needed to be held in his own bed.

Yet, somehow, the storyteller has escaped and found himself a great distance hence from his home, “the ancient and famous city of Carcosa.” As Mann recites the story of Hoseib Alar Robardin, his voice maintains a querulous air, capitally conferring the sheer sense of baffled curiosity at the surrounding in which our narrator has found himself.

Bozzone's score conveys the atmosphere with masterful skill. The swirling synthesizer denotes the air which is “raw and chill,” and the repeated reverberation of something akin to a singing bowl brings “menace and a portent—a hint of evil, an intimation of doom” every time it rings out. Yet, it is not all ominous terror. As Mann relates the explorations of this strange place, a melodious flute plays, bringing the sound of “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” almost to a joyous place – that is, until the teller of this tale remembers his illness, and the sound of the flute stretches and distorts, becoming a shrill warning.

**Credits:**

Written by Ambrose Bierce

Artwork by Matthew R. Jaffe

Liner notes by S.T. Joshi

Read by Anthony D.P. Mann

Score by Chris Bozzone

Housed in fold-over sleeve

**Variants:**

Retail (Clear with blue swirl, 100 copies)

Subscriber (Light blue opaque swirl)

Blue and white over clear splatter (35 copies)

Wax mage (27 numbered copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
The Sensha-do Team

## **Founding**

Shamrock School for Girls had never had their own Sensha-do team, but that changed when a student called Iona Yoshimura saw Miho Nishizumi win the 63rd Nationals with a school that no one had ever heard of before. She was immediately convinced that if Ooarai could do it then any school could*.*

The fact the school had no experience of Sensha-do nor any tanks did not deter Iona. Fired up with single-minded enthusiasm, she founded the Shamrock School for Girls Sensha-do Team and installed herself as Captain. Following the trends of St. Gloriana, Maginot and some other schools, Iona decided that the Shamrock team members should adopt nicknames. All the nicknames are actually Irish rivers. She chose 'Shannon', as it is the largest river in Ireland, and was pleasantly surprised to learn it is an actual given name too.

Shannon pestered and badgered the school's museum until they eventually agreed to let the Sensha-do Team borrow and restore the Vickers Mk D tank that had been on display there. With a new club start-up grant she was able to buy two Sensha-do compliant Landsverk L-60 light tanks that had been going cheap.

Equipped with this mighty force, Shannon is convinced that Shamrock School for Girls Sensha-do Team is ready to take on the world. Bizarrely, this unfounded enthusiasm has infected most of her teammates too, who are usually confident of victory even though they have no reason to hold this belief. Their almost constant losses do not upset them in the slightest. They are convinced that it is all part of the learning curve that will one day culminate in their winning national or even international events.

## **Uniform**

The Sensha-do uniform was supplied by Shannon when she founded the team. She managed to furnish the whole team with smart, albeit cheep, green uniforms, which she scrounged from all sources. Their dark green jackets she obtained from a disbanded brass band, then added the black collar and cuffs herself. The emerald green pleated skirts are from the school PE kit. She bought up all the enamelled shamrock badges from the school's souvenir shop and used these as collar badges for the jackets with slightly larger ones for their caps.

   The Shamrock team's distinctive headgear is a 'caubeen' style cap; again personally made by Shannon using her sewing skills. Contrary to what a lot of other schools think, the caubeen is not a beret, because a beret is made from one piece of material and therefore has no seems, whereas a caubeen is made from panels. The Sensha-do team proudly wear theirs with a tall, bright green, feather hackle behind their badges.

## **Theme tune**

The school's theme tune is ***'Lilliburlero'***. The Sensha-do team sing a version of *'The Farmer's Curst Wife'* to the same tune while riding their tanks (or wherever they feel like singing it!). The main change to the traditional lyrics is to the first line, which they have altered to *"There was an old farmer in **Shamrock** did dwell,"*.
Test Presses

Every Cadabra release has a very limited amount of test presses. Along with a regular subscription, there is also a test press subscription that offers these. These do not go up for general sale.

These don't come with a regular sleeve, but instead a numbered paper sleeve. Some test presses are included in box sets. Test presses are almost always black.
Laune

*"It's not a tank from the Second World War though. It's… um… from the world war before that one?"*

Laune, explaining the history of the A7V.

*"Our uniforms are green, so I thought the tanks were the same colour to match,"*

Laune, on the subject of camouflage.

**Profile**

Laune (rhymes with "clown") is a first year member of the team; although she should be in her second year. She was held back one year as she is not exactly the brightest of students.

**Appearance**

Laune is slightly above average height and well developed. Laune has apricot-coloured hair which is usually worn in a ponytail. She has green eyes and freckles. She is missing her right leg above the knee and wears a prosthetic leg in its place.

**Personality**

Laune is known to be very clumsy, and this includes spilling beer in the pub and tripping over when she forgets she is no longer good at running. She struggles academically, with her highest mark being a C+ for a history essay about WW2 tanks. She nonetheless appears to be a competent cook, providing the dish isn't too complicated.

**Background**

Laune is missing right leg is due to a traffic accident when she was younger. A van swerved to avoid a young girl who was riding her bike the wrong way up a one-way street. The van missed the girl but hit Laune, who was walking along the pavement by the side of the road. Her leg was injured too badly to be saved. Her recovery time also contributed to her being held back a year before High School.

Laune initially wanted to join the team as a tank driver, but she was persuaded that her talents for destruction could be better employed as a gunner. She is currently the gunner on Shannon's Vickers Mk D. Her gunnery can be described as enthusiastic but not accurate.

Laune participated in school exchanges to Tategoto High School and Blue Division High School. She found the flip-flop style sandals worn as part of the Tategoto uniform did not fit on her prosthetic leg, but she got on better with the Blue Division uniform.

She is known to be reasonably resentful of St. Gloriana and the students of that school.

**Trivia**

* Laune's real name is Ume Kamezawa.
* Her birthday is 24th May, which is the same date as the start of the United Irishmen's rebellion of 1798, and also the same date as the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923.
* Her favourite tank is the A7V, because she finds it easiest to draw.
* She is 157cm (5ft 2in) tall.

**Appearances**

**Spoilers**

**Laune gallery**
Dalua - Appearances

**Fan Fiction**

**The Legend of Shamrock** by CrabbyCakes

Dalua is a supporting character in this story which charts Shamrock's fortunes in a new tournament.

**Over the Hills and Under Canvas**

Dalua appears in this one shot where the Shamrock team try to put up a tent.

**Speedster and Spymaster: An Unlikely Love Story** by Rosy

Dalua has an unnamed cameo appearance in Chapter 9 of this story which focuses on Assam and Rosehip.
Chris Bozzone: Selected Themes Inspired by Thomas Ligotti (Gas Station Carnivals)

CADABR-?? 2022

10"

A Cadabra Records production: selected themes inspired by Thomas Ligotti. Music composed and performed by Chris Bozzone. Synthesizers, piano, and drones. Produced by Barry Knob who also contributed a mellotron arrangement. The music was recorded and mixed over time at Retro City Studios January 2020 through April of 2022. Art by Dave Felton. Layout design by Jonathan Dennison.

Sold exclusively at the Gas Station Carnivals live reading event.

Clear lathe cut with fold over sleeve

30 numbered copies
Joe Keinberger Art Show 2019

Saturday May 11th at The Convent Philly in Philadelphia, PA

A special book release show for Cadabra Illustrated 2: HP Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space"

Limited Edition and Regular Edition softcover versions of the book were available with silkscreen covers.

Original Artwork from the book, as well as some other Cadabra releases by Joe Keinberger were on display and for sale.
Pickman's Model

CADABR-07 2016

LP

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of *Weird Tales*. The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists.

**Credits:**

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Artwork by Alan Brown

   Liner notes by S. T. Joshi

Read by Andrew Leman

Music by Theologian

8 page booklet with new notes by weird fiction scholar, S. T. Joshi.

Including 18" x 24" poster.

Early bird variant came with an actual photo of a pickman creature model.

**Variants:**

Retail (Turquoise blue marble)(30 came with a numbered sleeve for the Necronomicon edition)

Subscriber (Clear with black smoke, 100 numbered copies)

Early bird variant (red black mix, 100 copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
Clare

*"Isn't that... completely different to how the book describes the formation?"*

Clare, commenting on Shannon's *Panzerkeil*.

**Profile**

Clare is also a second year student. She serves as vice commander of the Sensha-do team.

**Appearance**

Clare is tall and slender with a slim figure. She has reddish-brown hair and chocolate-coloured eyes. She is known to have very toned muscles. Clare prefers to wear thigh-high socks with both her school and Sensha-do uniforms.

**Personality**

Clare is a very different kind of person to the team commander. Clare is generally cool, calm, collected and rational, however, while she may appear sensible in contrast to her teammates, this is all relative to the overall Shamrock standard, so Clare can still be quite scatterbrained at times. She is also the fittest member of the team and can regularly be found at the gym at some unearthly hour of the morning.

**Background**

Clare agreed to help found the Sensha-do team with Shannon, even though she had no prior knowledge of Sensha-do. She is sometimes exasperated by Shannon's antics or thought processes (or lack thereof) and sometimes wonders if the team would do better if she was in command instead of Shannon. She does, however, recognise that Shannon has enormous energy and passion for the team, as well as a better knowledge of Sensha-do than Clare does (although both of them are participating in the sport for the first time).

She agreed with Shannon's idea, based on St. Gloriana, that they would adopt nicknames for all team members based on Irish rivers and she chose Clare for herself after learning it was a common given name as well.

As Shannon's Vice-Commander. Clare is responsible for the majority of the organisation and also coming up with the strategies and tactics for any matches. Shannon thinks Clare should also be in charge of the pre-match reconnaissance and intelligence department of the Shamrock team, although currently neither of them have much of a clue about this side of things.

Clare commands one of the teams L-60 light tanks. She is far more realistic than Shannon about the team's prospects in any matches, given that they only have three low quality tanks available to them. She feels they desperately need to get more tanks from somewhere; either through buying, borrowing or generous gifts!

In order to learn more about High School Sensha-do, Clare was sent by Shannon on a week's exchange to Viggen High School and then to the Hungarian-themed Tarczay High School. The main lesson that Clare learned was that horned helmets are impractical when it comes to tanks.

**Trivia**

* Clare's real name is Kira Hanamori.
* Her birthday is 1st July, which is also the same date (in the old system calendar) of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, where William of Orange defeated James Stewart (formerly King James II).
* Her favourite tank is the A41 Centurion.
* She is 166cm (5ft 5in) tall.

**Appearances**

**Spoilers**

**Clare gallery**
Avoca

*"Don't mind me. I read that in a book..."*

Avoca, on the subject of her tank knowledge.

**Profile**

Avoca is a first year student and a member of both the Sensha-do team and the Literature Society. The only other member of the Literature Society is her friend Dalua.

**Appearance**

Avoca is a small, petite girl with light brown hair, which she usually wears in two side tails held in place with scrunchie hairbands. She has green eyes, freckles, and wears orange half-framed glasses.

**Personality**

Avoca is studious and usually very quiet, especially if put on the spot. She can, however, be quite opinionated at times. She behaves very differently around her friend Dalua than when she is in front of people she doesn't know well. When not with the team, she can usually be found in the library. She is very much an optimist, especially when compared to her pessimistic best friend.

**Background**

Avoca is a martyr to her 'gut instinct' which often tells her something is a good idea. Prior to joining the Sensha-do team, Avoca and her friend Dalua tried several new clubs in order to try to find a more exciting hobby, as each time Avoca's 'gut' told her it would be a great idea. They joined the Hiking Club; attempted sailing with the Sailing Club; and joined the school's Dance Club. After seeing a flyer for the Sensha-do team, Avoca's 'gut' once again convinced her it would be a good idea to join. Ever the optimist, Avoca followed her gut and convinced her friend Dalua to accompany her. After some initial reticence, Avoca is warming to Sensha-do as a hobby.

Avoca is broadly supportive of Shamrock working closer with St. Gloriana, but rarely voices her opinion.

**Trivia**

* Avoca's real given name is Ayuka.
* Her favourite tank is the A34 Comet.
* Her birthday is 20th December, which is the same birthday (in 1638) as Narcissus Marsh, who founded the Marsh Library in Dublin.
* She is 148cm (4ft 10in) tall.

**Appearances**

**Spoilers**

**Avoca gallery**
Moy - Appearances

**Fan Fiction**

**Moy's Transfer Adventure** by CarFan747

Moy stars in this one shot about her arrival at a new school.

**The Legend of Shamrock** by CrabbyCakes

Moy is a supporting character in this story which charts Shamrock's fortunes in a new tournament.

**The Fallen Crown** by Montysmypython

Moy has a cameo appearance in Chapter 16 of this story, during which she engages in an arm wrestling contest.

**Riot of Colour** by Rosy

Moy appears in this riotous tale of tank painting.
The Yellow Sign (2019 RP)

CADABR-12 2019 Repress

**Credits:**

Written by Robert W. Chambers

Artwork by Karmazid

Score & liner notes by Maurizio Guarini

    Liner notes by S.T. Joshi

Read by Anthony D.P. Mann

Housed in a triple gategold sleeve

Insert included with liner notes

**Variants:**

Random color

Transparent yellow (150 copies)

Opaque yellow (144 copies)

Eyes of the Night Watchman (blue)
Cadabra Illustrated 1: The Picture in the House

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Artwork by Sam Heimer

Limited Edition of 250 Copies

Printed on Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell archival paper.

Dust jacket printed on black french paper with two color hand screen printing.

Text has been faithfully restored to Lovecraft’s original manuscripts by S.T. Joshi.

Signed by Sam Heimer and hand numbered.

Bookmark included.

Variants:

Soft cover (180 copies) ???

Hardcover (40 copies)

Red hardcover (5 copies) ???

Where to listen:

The Picture in the House
Mirrors

CADABR-59 2020

7"

Cadabra Records presents a premier 7″ EP from two of Fabio Frizzi’s main players of his Frizzi 2 Fulci band, Roberto Fasciani & Riccardo Rocchi. Comprised of classical guitar and bass, the duo performs intricate and atmospheric compositions that would impress even the most finicky of listeners and musicians alike. Composer Fabio Frizzi also contributes the track “Two Halves” to this brilliant record. This recording has to heard to be believed.

All songs recorded live with no overdubs.

**Credits:**

Artwork by Silvia Struglia

   Artwork (logo) by Elisa Sestili

Liner notes by Fabio Frizzi

Bass by Roberto Fasciani

Classical Guitar by Riccardo Rocchi

**Variants:**

Beige marble

Beige with black splatter (15 copies) ???

Wax mage (26 numbered copies)

Test pressing (13 numbered copies)
Serpents in the Fields of Sleep

CADABR-92 2022

LP / CD

While Swedish instrumental cinematic horror band Anima Morte has been scored several of Cadabra's H.P. Lovecraft adaptations the past few years – *Dagon/The Cats of Ulthar/The Music of Erich Zann*, *The Call of Cthulhu*, and *The Statement of Randolph Carter & The Unnameable*, to be precise – it's been a full five years since their last proper solo release, the 2017 EP, *Inertia of the Risen*. Therefore, it only seems fitting that Cadabra would bring to vinyl Anima Morte's first full-length LP in almost eight years, *Serpents in the Fields of Sleep*.

As the band themselves state, "with their roots in classic progressive rock they make perfect use of Hammond organs, Mellotrons and Moogs to create a creepy and haunting atmospheres." The core trio of Fredrik Klingwall (keys), Daniel Cannerfelt (guitar), and Teddy Möller (drums) augment their Goblin-meets-Frizzi sound with multiple musicians to craft soundscapes which stand wholly on their own, even as they evoke the possibilities of films which exist only in their mind. Think of them as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra for Halloween, but oh so much more.

Opening the album with "Leaving Redemption Behind" is a master stroke. At first listen, one wonders just how it will be possible for the following eight tracks to live up to the dizzying heights reached over the course of its runtime. However, that's what makes it so clever: every aspect of the song, from synthesized moans and cries to spy-rock guitar, from frantic progressive rock bass to intense keys, will crop up over the course of *Serpents in the Fields of Sleep*.

And yet, there are elements of Anima Morte's sound which will still surprise. "Pathogenesis" brings in strings and cavernous drums to march on toward oblivion. The strings and brass on "Seeds of Trepidation" pair soaring electric guitar solos with a subtle use of violin and saxophone to make for an epic sense of impending doom. Then, just when you think you've got a handle on what Anima Morte does, they throw a curveball with the wah-wah driven "Colors of Incrimination," which could easily be the theme song for a 1970s Umberto Lenzi poliziotteschi film, replete with big, insistent horns as it is.

Even if you've never before heard of Anima Morte, by the end of the aptly-titled "Night of the Final Act" which concludes *Serpents in the Field of Sleep*, you'll find yourself readily taking this album out of its jacket to play and share with any like-minded individual you possibly can. Should you find yourself alone, you'll flip the record over again and again and again, reveling in its hypnotic grooves.

**Credits:**

Music by Anima Morte

Artwork by Randy Ortiz

Limited pressing on 150 gram vinyl

Printed on a deluxe heavy weight gatefold tip-on jacket

Includes an 18" x 24" promotional poster

And CD released in thin cardboard digipak with clear plastic tray and liner notes on left inner panel.

**Variants:**

CD

White with black swirl (subscriber)

Metallic gold (100 copies)

Hand poured black splatter over clear (xx copies)

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth

CADABR-80 2021

4 LP

In the pantheon of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's writings, perhaps no work so explicitly expands the Cthulhu mythos as that of his 1936 novella, *The Shadow Over Innsmouth*. Narrator Robert Olmstead's relation of an unplanned excursion to the forgotten and dying New England town of Innsmouth reveals much of the Deep Ones and Dagon, and a not a little of Cthulhu and shoggoths.

Thus is this full-length, unabridged reading by Andrew Leman so involving. Whereas Leman's reading of *At the Mountains of Madness* primarily saw him taking on the voice of Dr. William Dyer, here he voices multiple characters, in many different states of mind and sanity. Going from the patrician, high-minded tones of Olmsted to the whiskey-fueled, New England-accented remembrances of Zadok Allen shows the full flush of Leman's talents, and gives *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* the feeling of a full cast performance. The continuous decline from our narrator's initial thrill at exploring the highways and byways of rural New England, right through to his horrific final discovery and decision, never lets up, either, resulting in a listening experience which makes this major entry in Lovecraft's bibliography feel new and exciting once more.

Said excitement is also due to the work of composer Chris Bozzone's score for this adaptation. Much like the composer used the tones of wind blasting across the Antarctic tundra for his sound design of At the Mountains of Madness, so does he here lean into the damp decay and squelching wetness of the town of Innsmouth. The sound of waves washing upon the shore is never far away, even as insistent chimes, ringing bells, or frantic piano plays over them.

While the bulk of Bozzone's score is in washed sounds or in high-pitched but still-quiet tones, it is when narrator Olmsted is forced to make his escape that the music ratchets up in volume and speed. As he attempts fleeing the Gilman House and then, the town, the score becomes akin to something like a cross between an action film and horror, not unlike the more terrifying portions of It Follows. The bass tones are so faint as to be inaudible, yet so powerful that one feels them in their bones. The sounds have force to them, no matter what the volume.

The resulting combination of words and music means that *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* is a recording which excites and delights, while still evoking the pervasive sense of unease so integral to a Lovecraftian tale. As Olmsted asks in the waning moments of the novella, “Where does madness leave off and reality begin?”

**Credits:**

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Artwork by Jeremy Hush

Calligraphy by Josh Yelle

Composed, Liner Notes by Chris Bozzone

Liner Notes by S.T. Joshi

Read by Andrew Leman

Limited 4x LP pressing on 150 gram colored vinyl

4x panel "M Pack" gatefold jackets

24" x 36" promotional poster

**Variants:**

Standard (emerald swirl & crimson swirl)

Random color variant ???

Subscriber (turquoise swirl & salmon swirl)

Hand poured black and green splatter over clear (35 copies)

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)(No extra sleeve)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
Sound Garden, Syracuse Listening Party

The Sound Garden in Syracuse sponsored a Cadabra Records listening party, and photos from that evening show how busy the label had been since “Where is Abby” was released the year before- “Pickman’s Model,” “The Raven,” “Inferno,” and “Halloween in a Suburb” are on the table along with what is probably one of the last copies of “The Elder Tapes.” (“The Hound” had already sold out at this point.)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2022)

CADABR-15 2022

LP

With well over three dozen adaptations over the last century, spanning stage, radio, and screens both theatrical and television Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, would seem to have nothing new to give up in the 21st century. However, the Bleak December Players have found a way to strip the novel-length tale down to its essence, while losing none of the joie de vivre which makes the story so utterly timeless.

The tale which makes up *The Hound of the Baskervilles* is notable for many reasons, all of which are utilized to great effect in the Bleak December Players' adaptation. First and foremost, this is a story which primarily features Dr. John Watson, rather than Sherlock Holmes, for the better part of two-thirds of the novel. Thus, having Anthony D.P. Mann perform the role of Watson makes for a jolly good performance, given his crisp, clipped manner of speaking.

When contrasted with the stentorian delivery of noted Shakespearen actor Derek Jacobi in the role of Holmes, one finds the pair to be perfectly-suited in whom they play. While their interactions are not near what they might have been in an adaptation of something like A Study in Scarlet, they're all the more thrilling for the fact that this is Watson truly coming into his own, rather than merely functioning as the great detective's sounding board and scribe.

With that, onto the second notable aspect of *The Hound of the Baskervilles*: not only is Holmes absent for much of the story itself, so was Holmes absent in print for nearly a decade before Doyle brought him back in this tale, originally serialized in The Strand magazine. Thus, not only does the listener get the thrill of Holmes revealing himself late in the story, but they get to feel something akin to the frisson readers received nearly 120 years ago when Holmes reveals himself in a manner similar to the original novel, yet wholly unique to this telling.

**Credits:**

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Artwork by Adam Burke

Adapted, liner notes by Anthony D.P. Mann

Music & read by Brent Holland

Performed by The Bleak December Players

 B

Limited pressing of 300

Deluxe triple gatefold sleeve

Variants:

Green with black swirl

Translucent yellow with green swirl

Hand poured yellow, green, and black splatter over clear (40 copies)

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)
The Mill River Revenant

CADABR-68 2020

7"

“The river is a setting in this story, but it is not a character.” Much as last year's Halloween release saw author Matthew M. Bartlett tackled the water's edge in “Ginny Greenteeth,” so does the author's tale for the latest installment in Cadabra's music for All Hallow's Eve. “The Mill River Revenant” is a tale of revenge, awash – so to speak – in astonishing cruelty, born of sadness and want.

Bartlett's narrative concerns the yearnings of a mother, Abigail, cast out by her husband, Henry, for drunkenness. The reek of whiskey surrounds her “like an amber cloud” when she supplicates herself to him, desperate to reunite with her family. Specifically, she wishes to see her children, Phillip and Roger, but Henry has found a new wife, Constance, and the river becomes a solution to all her problems. Or so she thinks. Her story becomes one for the ages, and it carries on and on until there are “legions of the drowned,” all “lost under the river's roar.”

The music of Slasher Film Festival Strategy evokes the auditory environs of a classic horror film. The piano is assertively stentorian throughout, while the synthesizers provide a high-toned foil. As Abigail suggests to her sons, “their feet, squelching in the mud,” “Shall we go into the river?” the music has a sudden, booming declension, announcing that it is all about to go downward.

The synthesizers are more than just musical accompaniment, as well. They swirl and rush about like the Mill River itself, and also crack and pop behind talk of an autumn backyard bonfire, creating a sonic world to go hand-in-hand with Anthony D.P. Mann's reading. The voice of the narrator rises in horror, drops to a terrified whisper, and channels the ache of pain and loss with elegant finesse, and so do Slasher Film Festival Strategy's tones, leaving the listener to wonder: is water just water? Is a river just a river? Or, is it truly a graveyard?

**Credits:**

Written by Matthew M. Bartlett

Artwork by Sam Heimer

Liner notes by Jon Padgett

Read by Anthony D.P. Mann

Score, Liner notes by The Slasher Film Festival Strategy

Fold-over outer sleeve

**Variants:**

Subscriber (Green with black swirl)

Orange with black swirl

Orange and black splatter (35 copies)

Wax mage (xx numbered copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
Figures

Welcome to a new series of "Mego" style figures based on weird fiction characters that we all love. This series is produced by Cadabra Records and made by our new friends at Distinctive Dummies. D.D. is well known and respected in the custom toy market for their incredible attention to detail and quality. With this said, we are damn lucky to have worked out a collaboration deal to make these figures a reality.

Lavinia Whateley

Joe Sargent

Nahum Garder and Wife

Edgar Allan Poe

Loathsome Old Man

Wilbur Whateley

Erich Zann

The Outsider

H.P. Lovecraft

The King in Yellow
Pickman's Model (2023)

CADABR-104 2023

LP

Trailer

In the H.P. Lovecraft story, "Pickman's Model," there is something of the writer himself to be found. In narrator Thurber's relation of the tale of his acquaintance, friendship, and subsequent breaking of ties with the artist Richard Upton Pickman, one can imagine Lovecraft working out some of the criticism he might have had directed at the "fussy old women" who didn't understand what true artists could do.

If ever there were a more self-relexive line in all of Lovecraft's work than "only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear," it's difficult to imagine, but that's what makes "Pickman's Model" such a delight to experience. In this short story, the reader – or in this case, the listener – gets to come along with their surrogate, Thurber, as he gets a behind-the-scenes look at what the Lovecraft surrogate, Pickman, does in the darkness.

And, oh my goodness, is it ever a descent into darkness. Much as "The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a quite literal trip underground, so is "Pickman's Model," and the journey to the darkest, oldest corners of Boston feel as though it's a trip to another world, unseen just beyond the known universe. Thanks to reader Andrew Leman's adroit transitions between Thurber's upper-crust tones and Pickman's staunchly New England accent, the listener is not simply hearing Thurber tell a story, but getting to walk alongside the narrator into the depths of the house in the North End.

Anima Morte's score echoes the tale being told, as well, gliding so smoothly from music to sound design that one scarcely notices that the beat of the drums has slowed to match their own nervous heartbeat or that the synthesizers are now howling like the wind through the trees during talk of a "Witches' Sabbath." There's all of that and yet still, Anima Morte knows when to take things into a mood which is almost orchestral, as near to anything James Bernard did for Hammer Films or Hans J. Salter did for Universal Pictures as can be imagined.

"Pickman's Model" is a masterwork of constructing terror, and the voice of Andrew Leman and the Anima Morte's music make the resulting edifice that much stronger, as though it were a fortress of the uncanny, with the final, breathless delivery of, "It was a photograph from life," acting as a dramaturgical cornerstone upon which this building rests.

**Credits:**

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Read by Andrew Leman

Score, liner notes by Anima Morte

Artwork by Jeremy Hush

Liner notes by S.T. Joshi

 B

Pressed in 150 gram vinyl

Printed on our deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket

Includes a 24" x 36" promotional poster

**Variants:**

Black

White

Red smoke/Opaque red mix

Red swirl (subscriber)

Red and black splatter (xx copies)

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
The Lurking Fear (2022)

CADABR-94 2022

LP

H.P. Lovecraft's “The Lurking Fear” is an intriguing story in many ways, not least of which is the fact that it was originally serialized in four parts during the early months of 1923. The division of Lovecraft's stories via serialization is nothing new, of course, with “Herbert West–Reanimator” having been divided the previous year and even his masterwork, *At the Mountains of Madness*, was divvied into three parts nearly a decade later.

However, the four parts of “The Lurking Fear” work not only as part of a greater whole, but each stands alone as a superbly-chilling adventure of a nameless narrator attempting to discover the secrets of Tempest Mountain and the surrounding area. Also, while not instantly identifiable upon reading, Andrew Leman's reading of this particular Lovecraft tale reveals a certain something different about the approach which the author took.

Leman's reading here, as with all his work for Cadabra, is superlative, but he brings a certain nervous uncertainty to his voice work which allows one to really and truly feel the brittle nature of the man who is relating the events which took place in the fall of 1921. The listener knows right from the start that this man, thanks to what he has seen, is barely holding on over a year hence from the nightmares which occurred. He's telling this story to you, the listeners, “lest the brooding make me a maniac.”

    Listening, however, might deliver a similar experience to those who drop the needle on the record. As with so many of Lovecraft's first-person narratives released by Cadabra, were it not for the music of Chris Bozzone which backgrounds Leman's recitation, one might think that this were an obscure recording from a century ago, brought to light for the first time and terrifying those who now live in the places where unknown horrors once dwelt. The first part, “The Shadow on the Chimney,” will make you fear the enclosure of old houses, but the final installment, “The Horror in the Eyes,” will bring the listener to the point where they “cannot see a well or a subway entrance without shuddering.”

Speaking Bozzone's score, the manner in which the composer and musician slips under Leman's narration with alternating acoustic guitar and electronic synthesizers helps to emphasize the inner and outer nature of “The Lurking Fear.” Much as the tale itself roams in and out of an old manse, the surrounding “maniacally thick foliage” of “certain overnourished trees whose very existence seemed an insult to sanity,” and certain underground lairs, the music which accompanies the tale goes from pleasant and open to closed-in and oppressive.

**Credits:**

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Artwork by Jeremy Hush

Liner notes by S.T. Joshi

Read by Andrew Leman

Score by Chris Bozzone

 B

Printed on deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket

Includes a 24" x 36" promotional poster

**Variants:**

Natural white

Light blue mix

Hand poured black blue and white splatter (xx copies)

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)

Test pressing ??
Laurence R. Harvey

**Laurence Robert Harvey** (born 17 July 1970) is an English actor.

Harvey is best known for portraying Martin Lomax in the horror film *The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)*, directed by Tom Six. In the film Martin is an obese, asthmatic and mentally challenged security guard for a multi-storey car park (called "London Car Parks"), who is obsessed with the original film.

Harvey also appears in *The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)* in a different role than part 2. He also played along Tristan Risk in Jill Sixx Gevargizian directing debut *Call Girl*. In 2015, Harvey was cast along with Tristan Risk and Ellie Church for *Frankenstein Created Bikers*.

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No Ordinary Fairy

The Human Chair

The Caterpillar

Ora Pro Nobis: Songs For Grieving and Mourning

Ginny Greenteeth

Suspiria De Profundis: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow (LP)

The Blood-Lotus

Spurs

In A Grove

The Great God Pan

At The Fork Of The Roads

The White People

## Filmography

* *The Pizza Miracle* (2010)
* *The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)* (2011)
* *King of Thebes* (2012)
* *Cool as Hell* (2013)
* *The ABCs of Death 2* (2014)
* *The Editor* (2014)
* *Banjo* (2015)
* *Dead Love* (2015)
* *English Mary* (2015)
* *House of Many Sorrows* (2015)
* *The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)* (2015)
* *Boogeyman: Reincarnation* (2015)
* *Kindred Spirits* (2015)
* *Redacted* (2015)
* *Frankenstein Created Bikers* (2015)
* *Elephant Man of War* (2016)
* *Egomaniac* (2016)
* *Made Ordinary (*2017)
* *Dark Web (*2017)
* *Attack of the Adult Babies* (2017)
Virgil Finlay

**Virgil Finlay** (July 23, 1914 – January 18, 1971) was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called "part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time." While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Finlay in 2012.

Virgil Warden Finlay was born and raised in Rochester, New York; his father, woodworker Warden Hugh Finlay, died at age 40 in the midst of the Great Depression, leaving his family (widow Ruth and two children, Jean and Virgil) in straitened circumstances. By his high school years, Virgil Finlay was exercising his passions for art and poetry, and discovered his lifelong subject matter in the pulp magazines of the era—science fiction in *Amazing Stories* (1927), fantasy and horror in *Weird Tales* (1928)—and began to exhibit at the age of 16. By age 21 he was confident enough in his art to send six pieces, unsolicited, to editor Farnsworth Wright at *Weird Tales*, who determined that such detailed work would transfer successfully to relatively rough paper the magazine used (pulp magazines were so described because of their paper quality). Wright began buying Finlay's work, which debuted with illustrations of three different stories in the December 1935 issue and appeared in 62 issues including the last in September 1954. He also created 19 color covers for *Weird Tales* numbers from February 1937 to March 1953. (In the latter year he won one of the inaugural Hugo Awards, as the previous year's best "Interior Illustrator"; cover artists and interior illustrators were not thereafter distinguished by the Hugo Award for Best Artist under various names. He was also named the best artist of 1945 in the 50-year Retro Hugos of 1996.)

Cadabra Releases:

H.P. Lovecraft figure

Hallowe'en in a Suburb & Others (2016)
The Clown Puppet

CADABR-86 2022

LP

Thomas Ligotti's *The Clown Puppet*, read here by Jon Padgett and scored by Chris Bozzone, is evidence of what the writer refers to in the opening moments as "the most outrageous nonsense." "The impeccable chaoticism" which imbues each and every one of Ligotti's works can take the form of a grand, nationwide – if not worldwide – conspiracy or a singular, intimate encounter, and it is behind the counter of Mr. Vizniak's medicine shop that the listener of *The Clown Puppet* encounters the latter.

Padgett's reading of *The Clown Puppet* takes Ligotti's omnipresent narrator to new heights of enervated ranting. The sheer frenetic energy of the narration is that of a man desperately attempting to convey an important event to the listener as quickly as possible. Never does Ligotti as writer ramble nor does Padgett as reader falter, however. The detail of the events are clear and crisp in their horror, and the reading clipped, with every word enunciated with precision.

One can see the puppet thing hanging there in front of them, "with its pale and pitted complexion, its slightly pointed nose and delicate lips, and its dead puppet eyes," gazing at them with a look which seems to see nothing, and yet everything. It's a feeling of being utterly lost and wondering just what is pulling one's own strings.

Bozzone works here in the sublime combination of piano, picked acoustic guitar, and swirling synthesized electronic sounds which has become the hallmark of his work for this label. The former pair of stringed instruments serve to craft the sense of heightened or lessened tension, as the story requires, while the near-constant electronic sounds craft an all-encompassing atmosphere of distress. The mechanically created sounds of the synthesizer point to the puppet itself, though we are far less certain of its creator than we are that of the music.

**Credits:**

Written by Thomas Ligotti

Read by Jon Padgett

Score, liner notes by Chris Bozzone

Artwork by Jason Barnett

Liner notes by Michael Cisco

 B

150 gram vinyl

Deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket.

18" x 24" promotional poster.

Variants:

Subscriber (Orange & black swirl)

Puppet Nonsense variant

Beef-Pork-Goat variant

Hand poured orange & black over clear splatter

Wax mage (25 numbered copies)

Test pressing (25 numbered copies)
The Yellow Sign (2017)

CADABR-12 2017

LP

   The spoken/horror arts curators at Cadabra Records announce the label’s most ambitious project yet, with the upcoming release of ROBERT W. CHAMBERS’ The Yellow Sign, the cult classic which inspired the acclaimed HBO series, True Detective. The story has here been professionally recited by popular filmmaker and actor, Anthony D. P. Mann, the LP featuring extensive notes by weird fiction scholar S. T. Joshi, and a brilliant and haunting score by composer Maurizio Guarini, of Italian prog/horror ions, Goblin.

**Credits:**

Written by Robert W. Chambers

Read by Anthony D.P. Mann

Artwork by Alan Brown

Score, mixed, liner notes by Maurizio Guarini

Liner notes by S.T. Joshi

Included 12 page booklet with liner notes and an 18” x 24” promotional poster

**Variants:**

Retail (Random color with obi strip with different jacket layout than other variants, 100 copies)

Subscriber (Yellow with blue streaks, 100 copies)

Transparent night blue, exclusive to Psilowave UK (includes obi strip and same layout as retail variant, 100 copies)

Yellow marble

Eyes of the Night-Watchman (Blue with metallic silver swirl)

Test pressing (15 numbered copies)

Square lathe cut picture disc (20 numbered copies included in the box set, very few extras were sold outside the box set)

Wax mage box set (20 copies) included:

-Square picture disc

-Wax mage vinyl