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A New Tale of a Tub
ISBN: 979-8337660905
WELCOME TO RICHARD CRAVEN’S BRISTOL A TWISTED, SATIRICAL LANDSCAPE WHERE CHAOTIC MISADVENTURE IS MET WITH WIT, VENGEANCE, AND A TOUCH OF THE GROTESQUE.
In this the inaugural volume of Richard Craven’s Bristolian Chronicles, disreputable Bristolian gym manager Herod swears vengeance against the microbe colony infesting the spa hot tub and blamed for the genital gangrene which has unmanned him. In the pursuit of his vendetta, he recruits a gallery of corporate psychopaths, spiritual charlatans and raving homoeopaths. As a signifier of his quest he sports an outsize marital aid, the White Willy.
A darkly humorous, unflinching and characteristically Bristolian satire of societal degeneracy, Amoeba Dick recalls everything between Greek tragedy, Jacobean grand guignol and the Victorian novel, and promises to resurrect classical literary fiction for a contemporary audience.
Characters, Locations, Items and Pubs
- Psorietes - Character
- Caliban/Alph the Unsacred - Character
- Hermaphrodite - Character
- The Old Disgrace - Pub
- Elysium - Location
- Fruit & Nut Flake - Location
- Hell - Location
- Cerebellum Towers - Location
- Wurzel - Character
- Wookey - Character
- Wanksy - Character
- Titus - Character
- Timothy - Character
- Cerberidae - Character
- Charybdis - Item
- Pex ‘n’ Quads - Location
- The White Willy - Item
- Scrumpy - Character
- St Just - Character
- Stig O’Dump - Character
- The Phantom Crapper - Character
- Rogers Boyes - Character
- Rodolfo Mather-Steiner - Character
- Petra Mountjoy - Character
- Mr Luvvertory - Character
- Mr Vagus - Character
- Nero Cesare - Character
- Peggy - Character
- Peter Astley - Character
- Meltynge - Character
- Mimi - Character
- Illingworth - Character
- John Virgil (later “Haruspex”) - Character
- Jupiter - Character
- Lady Dragon - Character
- Lady Snatch - Character
- Lord Snatch - Character
- Madame Lycra - Character
- Marshall Petoman, the flatulist - Character
- Harrison Lupin - Character
- Gilles de Pantalon Rouge - Character
- Face, the kidult - Character
- Guy Pigge - Character
- Herod - Character
- Ianeass the Gimp - Character
- Hippus - Character
- Don Quicksotte - Character
- Enematopoeia -
- Ertha Mather-Steiner -
- Evelyn Wagge -
- Chard - Character
- Cheddar - Character
- Claude Boisselier - Character
- Clismathea - Character
- Colloid - Character
- Costa - Character
- Crass Cheseham - Character
- Dee Fwend - Character
- Adrian - Character
- Aeromonas Annie - Character
- Anonymous Psorietist - Character
- Caliban, the yob - Character
- Book - Character
- 2nd eternal cockwasher - Character
- 1st eternal cockwasher - Character
- 3rd eternal cockwasher - Character