John of John by Douglas Stuart Esben and Karen announce their

Esben and Karen announce their plan to get married at the end of the week

each time in a form that fits the prejudices

and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain

the vampire squid and the 'head-less chicken monster' - a strange form of sea cucumber that lives at the very bottom of the ocean

Something deeper and darker

John of John by Douglas Stuart Esben and Karen announce theirOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with