Wolfesque
Stories from somewhere else.Worlds near enough to almost remember.
A place for stories and strange beauty.
Some stories arrive as books. Others appear as films, illustrations, fragments of music, old myths or places that seem strangely familiar. Wolfesque is where we keep the ones that refuse to disappear.
Rooted in the Wolfesque creative aesthetic of author and creator A. P. Wolf, the studio unites literature, motion pictures, atmospheric music, and visual art into a singular imaginative world.
Featured Stories
Selected works from across the Wolfesque catalogue. Each door leads somewhere different.
The Lantern Keeper
The Crooked Country
Elsewhere
Places Beyond the Familiar
Some places feel invented. Others feel as though they were there long before anyone thought to write them down.
Beneath the Boughs
Folklore, fairy tales, lamplight and the old hush beneath the trees.
Below the Tide
Drowned places, blue-green depths and wonders sleeping beneath the water.
After the Curtain
Faded theatres, warm footlights and strange marvels lingering in the dark.
Distant Signal
Midnight skies, impossible transmissions and something answering far away.
From the Journal
On Stories and Strange Things
Notes on fantasy, folklore, strange fiction, film, illustration and the old ideas that keep finding their way into new stories.
Film Editing & Craft
What the Camera Never Recorded
A camera records material. The finished film can create a meeting, an absence, a performance, or a continuous room that no camera ever recorded whole.
Theatre & Performance
The Shadow That Performs Until Dawn
A carved hide puppet throws one face onto the screen as shadow, and keeps another, painted, for whoever stands close enough to see it. One dalang runs both at once.
Publishing & Book Arts
What Changes When a Book Can Exist More Than Once
A 1499 Danse Macabre woodcut catches Death mid-visit to a print shop. Look at what the machine behind those two men actually produced, and the identical copy turns out to have always been more promise than fact.
From the Shelves
There Are Still Places Left to Find.
Not every story has been found. Some remain behind worn spines, beneath old names, at the end of roads that disappear from maps. Others have not happened yet. We are looking for those too.
Explore the Books