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Backrooms – Found Footage

Welcome to Today’s FYB Post featuring BACKROOMS -FOUND FOOTAGE Posted on A-Sync Research Channel. BACKROOMS -FOUND FOOTAGE is the Latest Installment of a Psychological Horror Series “Inspired” by the Original BACKROOMS Content Creator Kane Pixels. Some Explanation may be Needed. The Backrooms is a Creepypasta that was inspired by a Comment Left on a Picture of an “Unsettling Room” on 4Chan’s/x/board. The Comment inspired an Expanded Version of the Creepypasta as well as YouTube Videos on the Topic. The Backrooms Creepypasta was made into a Short Horror Film and a Horror Series by 16 Year Old American Director, Visual Effects Artist, and Youtuber Kane Pixels. The ongoing Online Horror Series’s First Installment was Uploaded to Youtube on January 7th, 2022 and Then the Rest of the Series has been Posted over the Course of the Many Months. All Previous Installments are Posted Here for Your Connivence as Well as Our Original Post on the Backrooms Creppypasta.

Well Then What The Fuck IS The Deal With The A-Sync Research?

As it Turns Out there is a Secondary Channel called A-Sync Research which We thought was a Secondary Channel created by Kane Pixels to Advance Plot Line, But We apparently were Wrong (at least as Far as Face Value is Concerned). A Comment by whoever the fuck is Responsible for the A-Sync Channel stated that the Channel isn’t Run by Kane Pixels, but instead it is Inspired by Him. So what the fuck is this all about then? Good fucking Question and Here is Our View on it. This A-Sync Person/People are NOT Random or are They Fans involved in some Fan Fiction Bullshit. And fucking TRUST US there is No fucking Shortage of Backroom Videos being Pumped Out Currently. Granted though at this Point in the BACKROOMS Trend there are More and More Convincing Copy Cat Videos being Posted. Everyone and their fucking Grandmother are jumping on the Backrooms Popularity in a Classic Overkill Scenario of the “I wanna get in on that and be YouTube Famous Too!” Mentality.

So Then What The Fuck Is Our Point Pertaining To A-Sync Research?

The Person/People behind the Async Research Channel We Honestly Believe are Collaborating Virtually Side by Side with Kane Pixels. We Believe so since the Video Theme, Quality, Production Value, Scenery/Sets, Costumes, and Feel of the Perspective Content Creator’s Videos Coincide with One Another. In All the Other Backrooms Videos We have seen There are Small Harder to See to Glaringly Obvious Differences from Kane and Async’s Videos. The Backrooms Installment from Kane Titled “Presentation” and the Subsequent A-Syncs Video “Exit” have a Good bit in Common. A Prime Example is the Miniature Models of the Backrooms Layout in “Presentation” is also Part of the “Exit” Video as well. Again that Doesn’t Negate the Fact there are Seriously SHIT TON of Videos About/Based on The Backrooms which Really Fucking Muddies the Waters. SO to Keep shit Somewhat fucking Organized We will Note Which Channel Kane’s or A-Sync’s for Each Respective Video.

Our Opinion On THE BACKROOMS Series/Videos/Channels:

This Unique Series does Something Rare Especially Now a Days which is it Simply fucking gets Better with Each Episode. The Series is also Incredible at Building the Tension of Each Installment until the fucking Anxiety of the Characters Bleeds through the fucking Screen. The Backrooms is Definitive fucking Proof You don’t Need a Shit Ton of Cash, Hollywood, Big Movie, An Orgy of CGI, Big Production Companies, Big Time Studios, Famous Actors, Film School/Degree, Jump Scares, or Even Gore to Mindfuck and Creep the Shit out the Audience. We Seriously fucking Enjoy that this Incredible Series’s Vibe/Feeling of Utter and Total Isolation (that Essentially Drives the Series) that was Picking Up Its Pace and Picking It Up Fast. Oddly Enough We seem to be in a Gray Area Impasse as far as the Continuation of the Series. The Last Backrooms (Backrooms – Betrayal) was apparently the Last of the Lost Cameraman Chris Footage it left Many wondering if the Series was indeed Over. Then there is this Additional Video and No One is certain what it may or May Not Signify going Forward.

Backrooms – Found Footage Synopsis:

First it is Important to Note a Couple of Key Points as it were that Set this Video apart from the Previous Episodes. First this Video has Absolutely Nothing to do with the Previous Episodes as it Doesn’t have dick to do with Async Research Employees or the Company. The Video begins with Two Teen Boys Shooting Hoops at a Presumably Local Basketball Court when things Suddenly go Awry as it were. Second while there is No Description Provided One of the Two Teens States the Date is in fact January 26, 1990. Third and Lastly this Video is a Mix of Live Action and Computer Animation with the Cameraman Providing Commentary so to Speak.

What Backrooms – Found Footage for all Intents and Purposes seems to be an Homage to the Original Kane Pixel’s Backrooms Short Film that went on to Become the Series, and the Original Online Backrooms Creepypasta. The Premise of Backrooms – Found Footage is Starts off Much like the Short Film with Teens being Teens when Suddenly and Unexplainably the One group Member Filming No Glitches into the Backrooms. The Teen who Now finds Himself Stranded in the Ominously Creepy Backrooms Starts Off by Wondering Around Confused. As He is Exploring the Backrooms He is Talking Out Loud making Observations about His Surroundings, Asking Questions Aloud such as “Is This a Joke?” or “Who would Build this for No Reason”, and Other General Comments. In the Vein of No Spoilers We can Say the Following:

There is a Scene with the Basketball and a Pitch Black Hallway.
The Teen finds a Room where Someone has been Living where there is a Mattress, Clothes, and Apple Cores all Over the Floor.
The Teen makes a Gruesome Discovery in the Room.
The Teen at One Point enters a Section of the Backrooms that consists of Rooms Painted Blue with White Baseboards and Doorframes along with a Variety of Differently Sized Hallways. Could this be the Second Level of the Backrooms?
It DOES NOT End well for the Lost Teen.

It is What it Is,

Presented By Les Sober

Backrooms – Galleries

So been awhile Since We posted Shit due to the Hell known as the Holidays, and with that Said Welcome to Today’s FYB Post featuring THE BACKROOMS – GALLERIES. GALLERIES is the Latest Installment from the Originator of the Psychological Horror Web Series Inspired by the Backrooms Kane Pixels. The Backrooms is a Creepypasta that was inspired by a Comment Left on a Picture of an “Unsettling Room” on 4Chan’s/x/board. The Comment inspired an Expanded Version of the Creepypasta as well as YouTube Videos on the Topic. The Backrooms Creepypasta was made into a Short Horror Film and a Horror Series by 16 Year Old American Director, Visual Effects Artist, and Youtuber Kane Pixels. The ongoing Online Horror Series’s First Installment was Uploaded to Youtube on January 7th, 2022 and Then the Rest of the Series was Posted over the Course of the Last Few Months (All Previous Installments are Posted Here for Your Connivence).

As it Turns Out there is a Secondary Channel called A-Sync Research which we thought was a Secondary Channels created by Kane Pixels to Advance Plot Line and We apparently were Wrong (at least as Far as Face Value is Concerned). A Comment by whoever the fuck is Responsible for the A-Sync Channel stated that the Channel isn’t Run by Kane Pixels, but instead it is Inspired by Him. So what the fuck is this all about then? Good fucking Question and Here is Our View on it. This A-Sync Person/People are NOT Random or are They Fans involved in some Fan Fiction Bullshit, and fucking TRUST US there is No fucking Shortage of Backroom Videos being Pumped Out Currently. Everyone and their fucking Grandmother are jumping on the Backrooms Popularity in a Classic Overkill Scenario of the “I wanna get in on that and be YouTube Famous Too!” Mentality.

This Person/People behind the Async Research Channel We Honestly Believe are Collaborating Virtually Side by Side with Kane Pixels since the Video Theme, Quality, Production Value, Scenery/Sets, Costumes, and Feel of the Perspective Content Creator’s Videos Coincide with One Another. In All the Other Backrooms Videos We have seen There are Small Harder to See to Glaringly Obvious Differences from Kane and Async’s Videos. The Backrooms Installment from Kane Titled “Presentation” and the Subsequent A-Syncs Video “Exit” have a Good bit in Common. A Prime Example is the Miniature Models of the Backrooms Layout in “Presentation” is also Part of the “Exit” Video as well. Again that Doesn’t Negate the Fact there are Seriously SHIT TON of Videos About/Based on The Backrooms which Really Fucking Muddies the Waters. SO to Keep shit Somewhat fucking Organized We will Note Which Channel Kane’s or A-Sync’s the Latest Installment is or was Posted On. BACKROOPMS – GALLERIES was Uploaded On/To The Async Research Channel.

Our Take On THE BACKROOMS:

Video Description: This is a continuation of the tape that was recorded by civilian Christopher E. This footage was recorded on February 3rd, 1984.

It is What It Is,

Presented By Les Sober

Linguistic Lunacy

Abominable Atrocities Arise And Abound Abundantly Against Agony Abysmal Anguish Across Apocalyptic Annihilation As Armageddon Awaits. Awfully Aggressive Assholes Amble Around Aimlessly Angrily Announcing Accusations And Allegations Angering Anyone Around. Ambivalent Arrogances Again Aren’t Absolute Another Atonement Amended All Alone.

Formidable Fiends Fuck Fathering Fear From Fragile Felonious Faith From Frail Fickle Feeble Fools. Fundamental Foolhardy Fucking Feces Faltering Forgoing Fatal Farreaching Fanaticism Fathomless Fetishistic Folly Forbidden Few Follow Flamboyant Falsehoods. Filthy Fleshless Flawed Fucked Fodder Further Fathom Fornicating Freely Fortitude For Futile Frenzied Fuckery.

Blasphemous Bastard’s Brutal Bitter Bitches Bountiful Bullshit Beyond Broadening Boundaries Before Banishing Belligerent Barbarians Behind Bloody Boarders. Badlands Bandits Beheading Biblical Brutes Before Battling Boldly Brandishing Brazen Banners Before Blackened Battalions Becoming Bonafide Bloodshed. Bountiful Beheadings Butchering Befuddled Blind Blasphemers Bloodshed Before Burning Beastly Brigades.

Sickly Sinister Savages Silently Slay Subservient Sinners Spreading Septic Slaughter Soaring. Sycophantic Simpletons Smile Slyly Surveying Sadistic Soldier’s Silicious Screams Shattering Surrounding Serenity. Servants Shit Sustenance Sustaining Shadowy Sultans Salacious Sexual Sadomasochistic Sodomy Shows. Soulless Symbolism Sadly Succumbs Suddenly Suffering Silicious Sabotage Suggestions.

Malevolent Monstrous Madmen Marauding Malicious Murderers Making Melancholy Mourner’s Mundane Misgivings More Memorable. Mysteriously Morbid Malfeasance Masters Manufacture More Maniacal Mayhem Magnifying Mortality Minimizing Morals. Moody Menacing Maniacal Misfits Manning Mortuaries Monopolize Maggots Moreover Mangling, Maiming, Mutilating Mankind.

Crippled Cretinous Creatures Creating Cataclysmic Chaotic Chaos Crumbling Churches Civilians Cringe Cowering Cataclysmic Carnage Comes. Creepy Cephalic Copulating Cretans Cackling Crazily Cum Ceaseless Corruption Confounding Confused Craniums. Cemeteries Cantankerously Coveting Corpses Confining Carcasses Claiming Cumbersome Cognitive Capabilities.

So what the fuck was the point of all this You Ask? Simply there is None as the Whole fucking Point of this Exercise was to Write something that Sounded Kickass, But in Reality it’s Upon Second Inspection that You can See it means Jack Diddly Shit.

It is What it Is,

By Les Sober

A-SYNC RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND THE BACKROOMS

Welcome to Today’s FYB Post featuring BACKROOMS A-SYNC ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/VIDEOS as Part of the Psychological Horror Web Series by Kane Pixels. The Backrooms is a Creepypasta that was inspired by a Comment Left on a Picture of an “Unsettling Room” on 4Chan’s/x/board. The Comment inspired an Expanded Version of the Creepypasta as well as YouTube Videos on the Topic. The Backrooms Creepypasta was made into a Short Horror Film and a Horror Series by 16 Year Old American Director, Visual Effects Artist, and Youtuber Kane Pixels. The ongoing Online Horror Series’s First Installment was Uploaded to Youtube on January 7th, 2022 and Then the Rest of the Series was Posted over the Course of the Last Few Months (All Previous Installments are Posted Here for Your Connivence).

SOMETHING NEW: There has Been a New Development in the BACKROOMS Saga. Series Creator Kane Pixels has Started a Secondary BACKROOMS Channel with Additional Content Not Found on His Main Channel. The New Channel He Started is Named A-Sync Research after the Fictitious and Ominous Research Company from the Series that’s Responsible for Introducing the BACKROOMS to the World. This Development has Thrown Things a Bit Out of Whack Here So now We’re Doing Damage Control to Sort Out any and all confusion. We have Previously Posted Installments Backrooms – The Search and No Escape Previously, BUT We included them here Anyway to Preserve the Series in its Entirety.

Here Are the A-Sync Videos In Chronological Order:

The Backrooms – Pillars (Found Footage)

CAPTION: January 2, 1998

2) The Backrooms – The Hole

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

3) The Backrooms – Encounter

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/21/91

4) The Backrooms – The End

CAPTION: his is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

5) The Backrooms – Async

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

6) The Backrooms – The Rope

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

7) The Backrooms – Telephone

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

8) The Backrooms – Library Entity

CAPTION: This is a small section of footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/22/91

9) The Backrooms – Lost and Found

CAPTION: This is all the footage that was able to be recovered from an unidentified camera found in the Complex (Hallways, Backrooms, etc.) by the A-Sync Research Development Team. 5/21/91

10) The Backrooms – No Escape

CAPTION: This tape was .—- recorded by civilian Christopher E. ******* -..-. who was reported missing .—- —– on January 30th, 1984.

11) The Backrooms – The Search

CAPTION: This is a continuation of the tape that was ..— recorded by civilian Christopher E. ******* -..-. on February .—- —– 1st, 1984.

12) The Backrooms – Lost

CAPTION:This is a continuation …– of the tape that was recorded by civilian Christopher -..-. E. ******* on February 1st, .—- —– 1984.

It is What it Is,

Presented By Les Sober

Creeptopia’s Most Wanted: “BUG-Eyed Bill”

Welcome To Today’s FYB Post Featuring CREEPTOPIA’S MOST WANTED: “BUG-EYED BILL” By Artist, Musician, 2D/3D Animator, and Creator of the Creeptoons Series Matt Duncan. “BUG-EYED BILL” is a Spoof (for Those Old Enough to Remember) on the Widely Popular True Crime Television Show “AMERICA’S MOST WANTED” Hosted By John Waters, and Dedicated to bringing Criminals At Large to Justice.

Creeptoons take place in the Fictional Land of Creeptopia and are Disgusting Yet Lovable Monsters, Mutants, or Freaks that Live in the Clogged Arteries of The Mind come to Life. The Grim Creeptoon Characters are a Demented Blend of Both The Adorable and The Macabre.

PLOT: Traumatized as a Young Boy by the Slaughter of His Pet Pig named Belinda “Bug-Eyed Bill” later in Life becomes Infatuated with the Daughter of a New Neighbor who Shares the same Name as His Beloved Dead Pet Pig………

Thanks For Watching,

Presented by Les Sober

Goonlord – Caveman (Official Video)

Mondays are a Motherfucking Pain in the Ass so it seemed fucking Appropriate to Post this Considering the Extreme Frustration Surrounding this Post. This FYB Monday is the Official Animated Music Video for the Song “Caveman” by the Death Metal Band known as Goonlord. In a Cool Collaboration the “Caveman” Video was Animated by Non Other then a Recent Favorite of Ours Creeptoons.

Now this is the fucking Frustrating Part of this Post was/is the Lack of Available Information. Allow Me to Explain What I’m Talking about. First Off when You fucking Type Goonlord into a fucking Search Engine it Responds with “Did You Mean Goodlord?” which I damn well didn’t. I don’t know Who the fuck or What the fuck Goodlord is, but it sounds like a Christian Organization and after this Post I fucking Hate Them. I also Check Numerous Websites and Music Platforms and Here is What I Found which isn’t a Hell of a Lot.

Goonlord:

As I mentioned before They are a Death Metal Band.
Goonlord is from Florida.
The Album “Caveman” was Released on Monday November 29th 2021.
You can Find Goonlord’s Music on iToons and Spotify as well as Several Other Music Websites.
Goonlord Albums: Wide Eyed, Caveman, Inhuman, Pariah, and Someone May Die Here.
I Found what I fucking Thought was a Real Lead: goonlordfl.com which was completely fucking Useless. Their were Picks of the Band with No Bios, and There was Merchandise for Sale but No Band Information. It’s fucking Bizarre Yet Death Metal is a Fairly Niche Genre so Maybe I shouldn’t be that fucking Surprised after all. Who fucking Knows Not I.
Band Members:
Wesley Mitchell – Vocals
Jono Sanchez – Guitar
Quentinn “Super Q” Hembree – Guitar
Las Miles – Bass
Jon “Tree” Lelesi – Drums

Now this bring us to Creeptoons which is even more fucking aggravating then Researching Goonlord which was a Real Kick in the Nuts. So without Further Ado here is What I found on Ye Old Creeptoons:

Creeptoons is a Singular Artist
Creeptoons is Male.
Creeptoons has had Art Exhibits at the Modern Eden Gallery.
Besides His Youtube Channel He has an Instagram Account.
He is also on Etsy.
He is on Facebook/Meta (Yeah Right Zuckerberg You Dick).
There is No Personal Information in Any of the Bio aka “About” Categories.
Creeptoon’s Once Described His Work as “Creeptoons are Disgusting, Loveable Monsters that Live in the Clogged Arteries of Your Imagination.
The Closest thing to Anything Personal is Creeptoons refers to/ Describes Himself with just one fucking Word: Artist.

I think the Reason for the Horrendous Lack of Information is Perpetrated by Creeptoons Himself. Remember Kiddies there Artist Who are the Acceptation to the Rule. There Some Artist who are Honestly all about Their Art, and have No Interest in Being Famous or the Hassles that come with it. The Artists want to get Their Art Out there but Don’t want to go out in Public and Get Swarmed with People Badgering Them for Autographs or Picture. It was No Secret that Kurt Cobain for an Example Struggled with Fame and it made Him fucking Miserable. Also there Artists that to Avoid a Kurt Cobain Scenario go to Great Lengths to Keep Their Anonymity like Banksy or Sia for Example. I fully Believe Creeptoons is one of these Artists that wants His Work to Speak for Itself and Keep His Private Life Well Just that Private.

Enjoy.

Thanks For Watching/Lisening,

Presented By Les Sober

Found Footage: LOST IN THE CATACOMBS

Welcome internet travelers to this Wednesday’s FYB post that deals with the extreme psychological terror in the found footage originally titled Lost in the Catacombs. The found footage was part of a documentary which most notably aired as a Halloween Special on ABC Family, but the documentary in fact aired in various slightly different versions on Multiple Television networks in the early 2000s. The original film was directed by Francis Freeland and included segments of camcorder footage recorded in the vast and ancient Catacombs of Paris in the early 1990s. The footage was shot by an unknown man whose camera was allegedly discovered years later by an anonymous group of illicit catacomb explorers know as “cataphiles”. The group of cataphiles found the camera was found caked in dust and covered with mold but none the less still intact, and they claimed the footage on the video tape were both totally terrifying and sadly tragic.

For those who may be unaware the Paris Catacombs are a vast and extensive subterranean labyrinth that was created by building tunnels that connect a series of queries. The limestone from these quarries built Paris as it is known today, and eventually the city expanded to the point where the quarries and connecting quarry tunnel system lay below the busy metropolis. The Catacombs came to be back in the late 18th century (1787 – 1814) when the cemeteries in Paris became so overwhelmed with the dead it led to some serious problems. The over crowding of the cemeteries led to improper burials, open graves, and even unearthed corpses of the deceased, and this caused people living near/around the cemeteries to start contracting infectious diseases. To ease the over crowding and health problems and with tons of empty underground quarries at their disposal the police along with priests devised a morbid solution. They discreetly relocated the skeletal remains from older graves into the abandoned quarries effectively turning them into tombs. In the end the Paris catacombs came to house the remains of 6 to 7 million Parisians through out the estimated 187-200 miles of catacombs that lay below the city of Paris.

Let the insanity ensue………

So what the fuck?!:

While as you may imagine since the original airing(s) of the Lost in the Catacombs the creepy pasta crowd has run wild speculating what caused the unknown man to panic (and what possibly may have been his fate). It’s painfully obvious that the man’s flight or flight survival instinct wasn’t triggered by ghouls, ghosts, malevolent aliens, menacing monsters, malicious Mutants, psychotic madmen, or cannibalistic underground dwellers (C.H.U.Ds). As entertaining as it may be to propose outlandish circumstances to attempt to explain the footage, but these idle flights of fancy are nothing more than intellectual fluff.

The reality is far more disturbing and terror inducing than any imaginary beast or badman could ever hope to be. The brutal truth of the matter is the man started to experience growing anxiety as he realizes he may be in trouble. The Anxiety evolves into full blown panic as he comes to the conclusion that he is in a life or death situation and the life and death are his own. Finally the full blown panic activated the man’s fight or flight survival instinct causing him to completely lose his shit. He has realized at this point that his innocent adventure into the catacombs has gone horribly wrong, and he is now in the absolutely worst case scenario.

The man finds himself now effectively trapped underground in an expansive network of subterranean tunnels and make shift tombs and no way out. He apparently hadn’t thought to bring any sort of discernible supplies such as say food/ water, additional light source, or anything he could use to mark his path as he went in the event he in fact got lost. If the prospect of being trapped alone deep underground with the remains of 6-7 million dead people’s earthly remains, without food or water, blinded by the pitch blackness of the catacombs, confined in the cramped tunnels, and being utterly clueless on how to escape isn’t insanity inducing I don’t know what the fuck is.

Thus the Man’s catacomb adventure wasn’t an adventure at all it was a fatal mistake.

Until our paths cross once again,

Presented By Otto Control

NIGHTMARE

Welcome to this Wednesday’s Post featuring the Official Music Video by Lee Hardcastle for the Song “NIGHTMARE” by the Band Love Automatic.

Lee Hardcastle is a British Animator Who Specializes in Stop-Motion Techniques. He is Famous for His Handmade Independent Animations. His Work includes Original Remakes of Emblematic 1980’s Action and Horror Movies, as well as Parodies of Animated Series and Video Clips. His Work is Known for its Violent and Gory Content. He has worked with Many Companies including Momentum Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Adult Swim, and has Also Worked with Notable Artists such as Sufjan Stevens. Besides Being a Kick Ass Animator Lee Hardcastle was a Member of the Band Shit The Bed. Hardcastle once explained His Work as “I make Claymation that is Not for Children.”

All the Information I was able to Wrangle about the Band Love Automatic is the Following. Love Automatic is a New York band made up of ex-members from Senses Fail & Armor for Sleep. Their EP debut ‘Organ Donor’ is now available for download from major retailers.

PLOT: A Paranormal Research Team conducts a Seance (A Meeting where People Attempt to make Contact with the Dead) when Things Go Horribly Wrong the Team Ends Up Meeting Their DOOM!

Thanks For Reading/Watching,

Presented By Les Sober

Excerpts From “The Black Riders and Other Lines” By Stephen Crane

The Poems Below are by American Author Stephen Crane Published in 1895 (by Copeland & Day) as a Part of His Collection, The Black Riders and Other Lines. The Following Excerpts are from Fifty-Six Short Poems (all of Which Simply go by Number without actual Titles) that comprise ‘The Black Riders’. Crane is Most Recognized as the Author of the Famous American Novel The Red Badge of Courage.

When Crane’s Poems were Published, He was Harshly Criticized for the Unusual Form of His Poems, and that He had Some Nerve in Presenting these “Disjointed Effusions” and Daring to call them Poetry. The First Brutal Reviews Denounced Crane’s The Black Riders as Nothing Short of “Artless and Barbaric.”

In His Correspondence with a Particular Editor of Leslie’s Weekly in 1895, Crane professed that He Preferred The Black Riders to His Iconic American Novel The Red Badge of Courage. Crane Wrote “I, suppose I ought to be Thankful to ‘The Red Badge,’ but I am much Fonder of My little book of poems, ‘The Black Riders’. My Aim was to Comprehend in it the thoughts I have had about Life in General, while ‘The Red Badge’ is a mere Episode in Life, an Amplification.”

Enjoy.

IV.

Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth.

Once there came a man
Who said,
“Range me all men of the world in rows.”
And instantly
There was terrific clamour among the people
Against being ranged in rows.
There was a loud quarrel, world-wide.
It endured for ages;
And blood was shed
By those who would not stand in rows,
And by those who pined to stand in rows.
Eventually, the man went to death, weeping.
And those who staid in bloody scuffle
Knew not the great simplicity.

IX
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
and carousing in sin.
One looked up, grinning,
And said, “Comrade! Brother!”

XIII
If there is a witness to my little life,
To my tiny throes and struggles,
He sees a fool;
And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

XVII
There were many who went in huddled procession,
They knew not whither;
But, at any rate, success or calamity
Would attend all in equality.
There was one who sought a new road.
He went into direful thickets,
And ultimately he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.

XIX
A god in wrath
Was beating a man;
He cuffed him loudly
With thunderous blows
That rang and rolled over the earth.
All people came running.
The man screamed and struggled,
And bit madly at the feet of the god.
The people cried,
“Ah, what a wicked man!”
And “Ah, what a redoubtable god!”

XXV
Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
And near it, a stern spirit.
There came a drooping maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
“No flowers for him,” he said.
The maid wept:
“Ah, I loved him.”
But the spirit, grim and frowning:
“No flowers for him.”
Now, this is it-
If the spirit was just,
Why did the maid weep?

XXIX
Behold, from the land of the farther suns I returned.
And I was in a reptile-swarming place,
Peopled, otherwise, with grimaces,
Shrouded above in black impenetrableness.
I shrank, loathing,
Sick with it.
And I said to him,
“What is this?”
He made answer slowly,
“Spirit, this is a world;
This was your home.”

XXXII
Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.

LXVII
God lay dead in heaven;
Angels sang the hymn of the end;
Purple winds went moaning,
Their wings drip-dripping
With blood
That fell upon the earth.
It, groaning thing,
Turned black and sank.
Then from the far caverns
Of dead sins
Came monsters, livid with desire.
They fought,
Wrangled over the world,
A morsel.
But of all sadness this was sad-
A woman’s arms tried to shield
The head of a sleeping man
From the jaws of the final beast.

Thanks For Reading,

Presented By Les Sober (Pt222AM)

Three Skins Without Men

We are Amped to Present THREE SKINS WITHOUT MEN By One of Our Favorite Animators Mr.David Firth. . For those of You Who do Not Know or May Not Be Aware David Firth is an English Animator, Director, Writer, Musician, Actor, Voice Actor, Video Artist, and Broadcaster of Whom We are a Big Fan of Here at FYB. Several of Firth’s works in Flash Animation, along with Multiple Music Videos and Works of Video Art, have Garnered a Large Followings.

The Animation Includes:

A Little Boy and a Girl controlled by a Evil Severed Head
A Paranoid Man Who believes Everyone Wants o Piece of His Skins He has Hanging in His Apartment that are His Pride and Joy.
A Flashback to a Fancy Dinner Party Attended by Elites that Goes Horribly Wrong.
The Evil Severed Head with a New Insect Body.
A Painting Called Three Men Without Skins Who’s Subjects come to Life and Go To Bar.
Creepy Canine Like Creatures Who’s Heads are Skulls.
Mutilated Murder Victims.
The Girl Replacing Her Own Head with the Evil Severed Head.
The Evil Severed Head goes to Gun Store (Via the Girls Body) to Buy a Gun to Commit Suicide.
Store Owner Making a Deal with the Severed Head pertaining to the Gun Purchase.
The Murdered Children.
The Evil Severed Head Begs Guy Store Clerk to “Finish The Job”.
a Flock of Strangely Demented Old Women Float Down to Earth From the Sky.
Mutant Dog Singing

Enjoy.

Thanks For Watching,

Presented By Les Sober & FYB