Lucretia_Indrid (A Website)

[The author: 01-04-2025]

If this were really happening, what would you think? [Creator Statement]

I am an author based in London. I write predominantly weird fiction/horror, with a recent turn to experimental prose forms. My work explores the condition of modernity, experienced as a series of altered cognitive states brought about through technological mediation and the hidden/mystified structures of power that dictate our lives. My influences include Lautreaumont, Thomas Ligotti, J.G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, H.P. Lovecraft, William H. Burrows, Phillip K. Dick, E.T.A. Hoffman, and J.K. Huysmans. I have also written non-fiction, produced/co-hosted podcasts, and most recently have done music and sound design for stage and screen (respectively).

A portfolio of my works is available below.

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Writing (fiction)

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Untitled Novella Project (2025)

This is in second draft stages at the moment and will likely be ~20,000 words long. The story is (partially) inspired by the Proboscis Luke copypasta and concerns academic intrigue and the psycho-parapolitics of mass media.

Derivae, or, The Book of Dead Names (2025)

This story is pending publication as I'm still looking for a publisher amenable to smething which is simultaneously an experimental, creepypasta-inflected mediated piece that is also an absurd gothic horror story. It began life in the summer of 2024 as an offshoot of a much longer project that is still ongoing. It is ~8000 words long in its present iteration - watch this space.

Utena and Anthy Live in Yukio Mishima's House (2024) [Link]

This is a short piece I wrote for a zine in August 2024 accompanying I wrote and formatted for the Issue II of Sunday School – a zine accompanying an event series taking place annually at New River Studios, North London. The theme proposed by its editors – musician and organiser Dom (YAWS, Keno, Casting et al.) and the artist Minerva Amiss – was “The End of Eternity” after the novel by Isaac Asimov, drawing on the piece of the same name by the experimental electronic artist Russell Haswell.

Responding to this prompt, I chose to imagine events in the overlapping worlds of the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena (Be Papas, 1997) and the life and works of Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) on the morning their stories reach a point of terminal bleed-over that initiates a process of mutually cataclysmic reckoning.

Digital Rendering of a House in Belarus (2019) [Link]

This is a story I wrote in 2019 and performed as part of the New Gums spoken word series, with the accompaniment of Sam Enthoven. It concerns two friends investigating the disappearance of a former acquaintance through a trail of dsparate analogue and digital media ephemera. (link contains video and transcript)

Audio Work

Internet Angel (Oliver Walton/adarkersky, 2024)

Internet Angel is an interactive video installation by the filmmaker and multimedia artist Oliver Walton. Made using Unreal Engine and employing motion capture to create a cooperative experience for two viewers. A post is available on Instagram which serves as a trailer and tech demo. The film itself is a pretty unhinged affair, involving a series of overlapping narratives involving (from what I can gather) a love affair in cyberspace between a teenage shut-in and a dying girl, a sinister disembodied head at the heart of an unfolding war, and a pair of maniacal news anchors placing their mutual loathing at the heart of the news. The whole thing plays like the final sequence of the final episode of an anime that has run at least thirty episodes and is by now totally impenetrable to the casual viewer.

As well as composing a series of electronic pieces for the score I created all the various sound effects and ambiences (which can be heard, totally devoid of context, here). I at one time meant to make a trailer but for the time being here is the eponymous "Internet Angel" motif:

*I actually don't know if this is what the entity appearing on screen while this plays is called

The Dark Out There (Rowland Stirling, 2024)

The piece, which I've dubbed Archers Dystopia Redux was commissioned as the music accompanying a change of scene in a play set in the countryside following a fascist takeover of Great Britain. It was part of a series of shorts performed at the Hen and Chickens Theatre (Islington) for Any Second Now Productions. The brief was essentially to create a messed up version of "Barwick Green", the theme to long-running radio dramedy The Archers. I made two versions,the shorter of which can be found here, but here is the full (way too long) initial version: