Manifesto

L’Épouvantail has been dedicated to revealing the lost works of writers and artists in the contemporary epoch with an emphasis on those who practiced the sub-analytical transitative approach to literature and the post-modernist substitutive practice of fine art.


L’Épouvantail is currently primarily involved in releasing the lost works of Edmundo Bagel, a widely misunderstood philosopher, super-theologian, psycho-analyst, hypnotist, novelist, poet and general polymath who also famously dabbled in lyric writng with many recording artists in California during the nineteen-seventies.

L’Épouvantail is also currently, heavily involved in finding and publishing the life story, musings and sermons of the late Right Reverend Horatio Rye Hill Cheesespike [1921-2007] a hugely misunderstood, progressive Anglican priest who amongst other achievements had an immense impact on the mentally unstable patients of Numbscull Priory [North Yorks] during the fifties which lead to the establishment of the notorious Crackpot Savants and their activities across the north of England during the late fifties and into the sixties which became known as the ‘Sermon disturbances,’ and which eventually led to the Reverend Rye Hill Cheesespike’s first period of incarceration at Her Majesty’s Pleasure for continually breaking the peace and a side issue of tax evasion.

Soon after his release he caused uproar in the General Synod over his theories on the bestiality, spent further time in Belmarsh Prison due to a misunderstanding involving tattoos, serious incidents of drunk and disorderliness in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds city centres and recruitment as well as once again tax irregularities including investigations by Customs and Excise centred primarily around containers imported into Bootle Docks, that involved his latest group dedicated to the Glory of God, the Servants Of Christ United.

He however he put his second spell ‘inside’ to good use, helping him to both dry out and establish a new, fresher adaptive Christian movement [called the ‘Small ‘c’ christendom Faction’]. An altogether more peaceful organization- although it did dabble in agitprop activities in the early eighties and for some time adopted a Red Star over a Cross emblem- it enabled him to return into the Church of England’s mainstream fold after a time in which he also, during a period of hard times, worked as a bingo caller in Blackpool and where he became known as the Pastor of The Golden Mile.’ Eventually he managed to obtain a sleepy pastoral parish of his own in Wiltshire, although he continued, as he had done through all his life, to struggle with the demon monkey [as he described it] of drink and to his dying day maintaining that he was channeling the spirit of a long dead vicar from the eighteenth century.