The Year's Midnight

As the winter solstice passes, Litopia After Dark becomes Litopia After Darker.

it's time for festive cheer, certainly. But it's also the moment when the fabric (sorry) between our nightmares and our waking world is at its thinnest. A time for cosy hibernation, yes-- but also fear, depression and real-life demons. Especially in the days of glowing rectangles when the lights never completely go out.

To help navigate this darkest part of the Northern year, we're joined by ladies Light and Wilde-- Jessica Light, one of the last remaining trimming weavers in the UK, and former Cenobite, Barbie Wilde.  But which one really loves a rainbow and which one is afraid of the dark?

(Hint: one of them's a real cut-up and the other will have you in stitches...)

One is a horror writer who played a mutilating demon in Clive Barker's Hellraiser II. The other is a passementriere (pass-a-mon-tree-air) who helped fringe the Sultan of Brunei's throne room... and brocaded the balcony for the royal wedding!  One brings zombie rapists to life in her latest book Voices of the Damned. The other makes macrame dip-bleached Taiwan tie-back tassels that retail for £95. AND WE'VE GOT THEM ON THE SAME SHOW!

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