Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017
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BOOK REVIEW: THE MYSTERIUM:<br />
UNEXPLAINED AND EXTRAORDINARY<br />
STORIES FOR A POST-NESSIE GENERATION<br />
The Christmas annual used to be my favourite reading as a boy. Here were<br />
all those brilliant characters I read about in the weekly installments of a<br />
comic, between hard covers. The garish colours, jolly japes, wizard wheezes,<br />
daring dodges, all given more solid standing in what became a staple from<br />
Dear Old Santa. He knows me so well. When The Mysterium was handed to<br />
me at <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Brighton</strong> HQ I felt that same frisson I’d had way back when. And<br />
when I opened the book, its pages also took me back. It’s a compilation of urban myths, conspiracy theories,<br />
and shaggy dog stories. The pages are laid out scrapbook fashion, text and images accompanied not by<br />
footnotes but sidenotes in the generous margins of the pages. Here you will find out all about mountweazels,<br />
Slenderman, and <strong>Brighton</strong>’s very own walrus tenant. The book is divided into seven sections (itself a<br />
mysterious number) and the very middle of it all, the omphalos of the editors’ world, is an entry on – wait for<br />
it! – the Portsmouth Sinfonia. Their demise is told with great wit and economy, a cautionary tale of a DIY<br />
orchestra that started terrible and eventually became too proficient. Just like that. It’s a parable for the punk<br />
generation. I shall ponder it deeply as I wait for Santa to come down the chimney of O’Donoghue Towers.<br />
John O’Donoghue<br />
The Mysterium: Unexplained and extraordinary stories for a post-Nessie generation, edited by David Bramwell<br />
& Jo Keeling, Brewer’s, £14.99<br />
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