A different kind of class will be back in session in New York City and London with a new semester of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. The latest lineup of horror-themed classes and lectures will kick off stateside with an in-depth look at the 1974 folk horror film Penda's Fen, and we've been provided with two free registration slots for the class to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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Prize Details: (2) winners will receive:
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject "Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies Contest". Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01pm EST on Monday, January 8th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted. Winners are responsible for travel to the event and are required to present their ID at the door of the event to gain entry to the class. This contest is for free registration only and does not include travel, lodging, or any other expenses.
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The "Sacred Disobedience: On Penda's Fen" class will be taught by author Sukhdev Sandhu, who is the Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities. To learn more about the class and other horror-themed courses in this semester's lineup, visit Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies online and read on for more information:
"Named after the last pagan king of England, David Rudkin/ Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen (1974) is deep heresy, an extraordinary piece of folk horror, a visionary film that is almost a foundational text in the pantheon of The Old Weird Albion. A clergyman’s son – agonistically, ecstatically – has his personal armour stripped away: parentage, nationality, sexuality, patriotism. He has encounters with an angel, a demon, the ghost of Edward Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and Penda himself. A radical archaeology of Deep England and a praise-song to anarchist transformation, it culminates with the most euphoric revelation in British cinema: “My race is mixed. My sex is mixed. I am woman and man, light with darkness, nothing pure.”
Only recently exhumed after having been out of circulation for forty years, Penda’s Fen has lost none of its power to bewitch and ensorcel. This illustrated talk by Sukhdev Sandhu, editor of The Edge Is Where The Centre Is, a limited-edition art book on the film, will explore its topographies and febrile contexts – experimental public broadcasting, avant-garde arcadias, the rural uncanny, a mid-70s Britain that teetered on the brink of civil war, the rise of eldritch England."
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