The Running Grave

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My deepest gratitude as ever to my wonderful editor (and fellow cult aficionado) David Shelley. I promised you a cult book, and here, at last, we are.

A very big thank you to Nithya Rae for her superb copyediting, especially for catching date and numerical slip-ups.

To my fabulous agent, Neil Blair, who was one of this book’s early readers, thank you for all your hard work on my behalf, and for being such a good friend.

Thank you as always to Nicky Stonehill, Rebecca Salt and Mark Hutchinson, who provide endless support, wise guidance and many laughs.

My gratitude to Di Brooks, Simon Brown, Danny Cameron, Angela Milne, Ross Milne, Fiona Shapcott and Kaisa Tiensuu: I say it every time, but without you, there could be no books at all.

Lastly, to Neil Murray, who really didn’t fancy a book about a cult, but who likes The Running Grave the best of the series: see? I always know best – except on the many occasions when you do x

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CREDITS

‘Hymns and Arias’ (here) Copyright © 1971 Max Boyce

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‘Heaven’ (here and here) Words and Music by Patrick Dahlheimer, Chad Gracey, Ed Kowalczyk and Chad Taylor. © 2003 Loco De Amor Music. All rights reserved. Used by kind permission of Carlin Music Delaware LLC, Clearwater Yard, 35 Inverness Street, London, NW1 7HB.

From The I Ching or Book of Changes The Richard Wilhelm translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes. Copyright © Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1950, 1967. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Limited. (World excluding USA and Canada)

From The I Ching or Book of Changes, Bollingen Series XIX. The Richard Wilhelm Translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes. Foreword by C. G. Jung. Preface to the Third Edition by Hellmut Wilhelm. Copyright © 1950, 1967, renewed 1977 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. (USA and Canada)

‘It’s The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ (here and here) Words and Music by William Berry, Peter Buck, Michael Mills and Michael Stipe

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‘Make Luv’ (here) Words and Music by Kevin Duane McCord and Oliver Cheatham

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‘When, Like a Running Grave’ (here) by Dylan Thomas, in The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition, ed. by John Goodby (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2016). Used with the permission of the Dylan Thomas Trust through David Higham Associates. (World excluding USA and Canada)

‘When, Like a Running Grave’ (here) by Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright ©1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. (USA and Canada)

Extract from ‘On a Friend’s Escape from Drowning off the Norfolk Coast’ by George Barker (here) taken from Collected Poems of George Barker © Estate of George Barker. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.