Agents of Oblivion

“How long have things been coming apart in this way?” – The Lure of Silence“Generally speaking the dead do not return,” pronounced Antonin Artaud. But the dead are permitted to visit those who welcome them. Their spectral, machine-made voices echo in deep tunnels under London. Voices without hosts. Without agency. They make their oracular pronouncements even when nobody is listening on the vast empty platforms of the Elizabeth Line. They have their codes and their secret meanings.Four stories starting everywhere and finishing in madness. Four acknowledged guides. Four tricksters. Four inspirations. Algernon Blackwood. Arthur Machen. J. G. Ballard. H. P. Lovecraft. They are known as “Agents of Oblivion”. And sometimes, in brighter light, as oblivious angels . . .As host, as oracle, Iain Sinclair moves through this quartet of tales, through a spectral London that once was, or might never have been.Contents“Code 4: Agents of Oblivion”“The Lure of Silence”“House of Flies”“London Spirit”“At the Mountains of Madness”“Acknowledgements”“About the Author”“About the Illustrator”Limited to 550 copies of which 100 were embossed and hand numbered; signed by Iain Sinclair and Dave McKean; 191 pages; lithographically printed on 90 gsm paper; dust jacketed; illustrated Wibalin boards; sewn binding; head- and tail-bands