{"id":7005,"date":"2021-02-19T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2023-01-03T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:36:43","slug":"review-deity-matt-wesolowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk\/archive\/review-deity-matt-wesolowski\/","title":{"rendered":"[Review] Deity by Matt Wesolowski"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ally Wilkes reviews Deity by Matt Wesolowski, the latest instalment in the utterly compelling, podcast-inspired Six Stories horror\/crime series... \n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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I can never recommend the Six Stories series of novels highly enough:<\/b> short, tightly-plotted and weaving \u2018found footage\u2019 tropes together with a podcast format, they\u2019re effortlessly readable, with a substantial injection of supernatural and folkloric horror. In the past, Wesolowski \u2013 via his fictional podcast host Scott King \u2013 has tackled witch\/hag lore (<\/span>Six Stories<\/span><\/i>), internet legends and creepypasta (<\/span>Hydra<\/span><\/i>), elven abduction (<\/span>Changeling<\/span><\/i>) and vampires (<\/span>Beast<\/span><\/i>). Each one manages to offer a compelling and unique take on its subject-matter, and <\/span>Deity<\/span><\/i> is no different. This time the headline is folk horror, with a harbinger spirit \u2013 like the Grim or the Mothman \u2013 of a rotting stag with a decaying skull and glowing red eyes. In its treatment of ancient, madness-inducing survivals from another time, and also its signature narrative techniques, <\/span>Deity<\/span><\/i> may well be the most accomplished and most Machen-like instalment yet.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Arthur Machen<\/a> was a Welsh author and mystic writing in the 1890s heyday of the British \u2018haute Weird\u2019. He\u2019s perhaps best known for his short stories and novellas, including\u00a0<\/span>The Great God Pan\u00a0<\/i>(1894)<\/span>, <\/span>The Three Impostors<\/i>\u00a0(1895) and\u00a0<\/span>The White People\u00a0<\/i>(1904)<\/span>, each of which has a very characteristic story structure: the reader is required to unravel a series of framing narratives, interrogate various found documents, and weigh up accounts to decide what really<\/i>\u00a0happened. It\u2019s easy to draw a continuity between Machen\u2019s work and the found-footage horror phenomenon which is often \u2013 wrongly \u2013 limited to film: what about Max Brooks\u2019 <\/span>World War Z <\/i>(Crown, 2006), for example, or Mark Z Danielewski\u2019s majestic <\/span>House of Leaves<\/i>? The Six Stories books sit within this tradition: the narrator Scott King presents the reader with a disjointed narrative made up of snippets of transcript, internet posts or correspondence, and six meatier interviews with characters connected to the central mystery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Reading <\/span>Deity<\/i>, I constantly thought of Machen\u2019s <\/span>The Three Impostors<\/i>, in which the motive of the tale-tellers is often as important as the tale they\u2019re telling. It\u2019s an intriguing device which wouldn\u2019t work without Wesolowski\u2019s considerable gift for ventriloquism. Scott King has a measured, rhythmic voice \u2013 instantly identifiable as our ‘host’ and anchor point \u2013 whereas the other six narrators have distinctive voices across the class and gender spectrum. (I have to say Machen\u2019s 1890s army of near-interchangeable young men does get tiring after a while).<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To the story. Zach Crystal is a megastar, a singer-songwriter surrounded by hysterical fans. He\u2019s also a mystery \u2013 a young man with long blond hair and a crown of antlers, adorned with leaves and branches, a modern-day Cerunnos \u2013 who lives in Crystal Forest, a remote and highly-guarded Scottish woodland. Inviting young girls from troubled backgrounds for sleepovers in his ‘treehouse’, throwing around wealth and privilege like confetti, Crystal appears childlike and troubled: readers will immediately see he\u2019s coded as a Michael Jackson figure. In September 2019, at the climax of a bizarre series of disappearances, deaths and allegations of sexual assault, he\u2019s found dead in a fire which consumes the entire property. Enter Scott King and his podcast.<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The woods of Crystal Forest are the book\u2019s first \u2013 and arguably most powerful \u2013 setting for horror, and it\u2019s once again a Machen-esque theme: forces of nature, primal survivals, and madness-inducing brushes with elementals. The forest is primordial: ‘endless, sodden’ and <\/span>Deity<\/i> opens with \u2018the 2007 Crystal Forest video\u2019 which depicts two girls caught in its darkness. The camera dips and spins, and there\u2019s a noise \u2013 ‘an inhuman screech, a truncated howl that distorts then falls into sudden silence. A blast of pure savage rage’ \u2013 which hints at a supernatural agency either chasing or acting on the girls. In a visual straight out of the ending of The <\/i><\/span>Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo S\u00e1nchez,<\/i> 1999)<\/i>, we see: ‘Lulu or Jessica, hair plastered over her face, clothes torn and wet, walk[ing] towards the phone, knees at funny angles, her movements stiff, like a marionette.’ It\u2019s the perfect introduction to Wesolowski\u2019s savage woods, which are a hinterland full of sudden drops and vanishing paths, a place where it\u2019s very easy to become disorientated and lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As in <\/span>The Great God Pan<\/i>, encounters with something preternatural have a ripple effect through a narrative otherwise firmly grounded in human evil. Indeed, the two themes are woven together firmly, as Crystal uses the idea of seeing the Frithghast \u2013 that spectral stag \u2013 as a lure to beckon his young girls into his sphere and into his forest: ‘Why do you think so many kids see fairies? Why do so many kids have imaginary friends? It\u2019s only when you grow up that you\u2019re conditioned into thinking otherwise; you\u2019re told that magic doesn\u2019t exist.’ As a statement of grooming, it\u2019s chilling: as an echo of the madness-vector faerie initiation which kills Machen\u2019s young protagonist in <\/span>The White People<\/i>, it\u2019s utterly horrifying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For me, this was the most supernaturally terrifying of the Six Stories, despite its ambiguity, harking back to the nail-biting tension of <\/span>Changeling<\/i>. That opening found-footage is viscerally upsetting, and the mystery of what happened to Lulu and Jessica is threaded throughout the novel: we\u2019re told that ‘horrific rumours abound about what actually happened to the two girls while they were in or near Crystal Forest’, and episode three \u2013 told by Craig Kerr the groundskeeper \u2013 is pure folk horror. He narrates the story of the ‘Whispering Wood’ which once told a child ‘things no human is supposed to know\u2026 [things that] could send you raving mad’ until she murdered her own family and ate them raw.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Craig Kerr also found the two girls\u2019 bodies in a cave with ‘funny marks’ on the rocks which gave him ‘a bad vibe’ (so deliciously understated!), in a condition which suggested butchery and cannibalism had once again taken place. He remarks, sadly, that you\u2019d have thought their deaths would have made bigger headlines. This was also my one complaint about <\/span>Deity<\/i>: call me a ghoul, but I wanted to know much, much more about the fate of those girls, and wished that their found-footage strand had been a bigger presence within the book. We\u2019re left with considerable ambiguity about the presence (or delineation) of the supernatural, but perhaps the biggest hint at the ‘realness’ of the Frithghast comes when a character who is not part of the hysteria surrounding Crystal goes into the woods at night: ‘the breeze was making all the leaves hiss as well, all chattering together all around me. It was a strange sensation\u2026 it was like\u2026 well, it felt like it was laughing at me.’<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Other ambiguities abound: what is happening to the studio audience in Crystal\u2019s July 2019 appearance, interspersed throughout the stories? They make ‘short, high, yelping sounds’, twitch in their seats, and the broadcast is frequently cut, studio lights going on and off \u2013 a fascinating intrusion of the supernatural into the apparently objective, reminiscent of <\/span>Ghostwatch<\/i><\/a> (Leslie Manning, 1992). Is it a case of fan hysteria, or something more sinister? No easy answers are offered up, and the various revelations delivered along the way urge the reader to reinterpret what they\u2019ve already read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Wesolowski welds this sense of otherworldly dread with real-world evil in Crystal, who \u2013 dressing like a forest god \u2013 tells his ‘special girls’ they are also able to see the Frithghast. He\u2019s a skin-crawling character, making all the wrong noises about ‘places where young people escape into other worlds’ (the way he speaks about Narnia is reminiscent of Michael Jackson\u2019s Neverland; and once again we can see Machen\u2019s childhood seduction\/destruction tale of <\/span>The White People<\/i>). One of the most successful moments of understated horror comes when the supernatural noise \u2013 the off-screen suggestion \u2013 of a stag is combined with the discovery of a pair of discarded pyjama bottoms: ‘Little frilly things, with bows, like what young lassies wear.’ It opens up a yawning pit of discomfort, and demonstrates Wesolowski\u2019s mastery of his disparate materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And what a mastery it is. <\/span>Deity<\/i> is full of characters who sit at the edge of our moral judgements, resisting straightforward categorisations. We meet an internet paedophile hunter \u2013 or do we? We meet Sasha Stewart, a Crystal superfan who unleashes vile and vicious victim-blaming towards the singer\u2019s accusers. And we meet Marie Owen, a mother who lives among the debris of her previous life, waiting in a too-large house bought by Crystal for her lost daughter Kirsty to come back \u2013 hounded by tabloid headlines like ‘I Sold My Daughter To Zach Crystal’. It\u2019s the sheer nuance which always marks out Wesolowski\u2019s writing: he has a real empathy for the desperate decisions sometimes made by those living lives of deprivation, precarity, and grinding poverty. The Six Stories books often feature absent or abusive or drug-using parents, ill-reputed council estates and coercive partners, and it\u2019s easy to see that the author\u2019s other career \u2013 as a English tutor for young people in care \u2013 is able to offer him a rare insight and authenticity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I was delighted by <\/span>Deity,<\/i> from that horrifying found-footage opening right up until the point it detonated its awful question \u2013 what if Lulu and Jessica weren\u2019t trying to get into Crystal Forest, but out of it? The unravelling took in the Satanic Panic, dodgy interview techniques, reputation and cults, and a hint at something truly awful that might have come to pass in those woods. While I\u2019ve drawn several comparisons between this book and the works of Arthur Machen, perhaps the most obvious is the lingering sense that there was more to the story all along \u2013 more than we can ever know \u2013 and that\u2019s why the Six Stories books are both compelling and effortlessly binge-worthy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ally (she\/they) is Horrified\u2019s Book Reviews Editor, which is very fitting for someone so obsessed with books and horror. A Greenwich-based writer of ghost stories, cosmic horror, and the weird, Ally's debut novel ALL THE WHITE SPACES (supernatural horror set in the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration) is coming in January 2022. Screamings on Twitter @UnheimlichManvr<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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