Creative works

The history of Ravenser Odd has inspired a growing number of artists, writers, and musicians.

Here are some of their works. Please contact me if you have more to add to the list.

Please also join us for IMAGINING RAVENSER ODD: ART/MUSIC/POETRY at the Humber Street Gallery, Hull, 21 May 2024, 7-11pm. Free entry.

Poetry

Michael Daniels, Ravenser Odd, Poet’s House Pamphlets, Oxford, 2022.

Sean O’Brien, ‘Names’, in It Says Here, Picador, 2020.

Ian Duhig, ‘Bederoll’, forthcoming, 2024.

Sarah Stutt, ‘Saint Marcelluss’ Flood’; ‘Frühling/Spring’; ‘Tryst’, various years.

Fiction

Paul Bourquin, The Lord of the Ravens, 1961.

Tessa Potter, ‘The Flight from Odd’ in Dark Waters, 1995.

Martin R. Jackson, Believe Me! 2017.

Cassandra Clark, Dark Waters Rising, 2022.

Robert Wilkinson, Ravenser Odd: End of Days – a Sir Guy de Haghe mystery, 2022.

Alasdair Beckett-King, Montgomery Bonbon: Death at the Lighthouse, 2023.

Virginia Crow, ‘Ravenser Odd’ in Have We Ever Been Alone? A dozen stories of mankind’s brush with the supernatural, 2023.

Gareth Sleighthome, 1362: A Spurn Oddity, forthcoming, 2024.

Here’s a panel from Gareth’s 2021 comic: The Strange Case of the Very Strange Case: Lily and the Arctic Expedition.

Plays

Rob Bell, The Mystery of Ravenser Odd, Hull History Troupe, 2017.

Visual Arts

Stella Capes, ‘From Ravenser Odd’, The Laughter Paradox, 6 min video, 2006.

Dale Mackie, various pieces, New Street Studios, Grimsby, 2020.

York Ghost Merchants, ‘Ghost of Ravenser Odd’, 2020.

Gareth Sleighthome, various artist’s impressions of Ravenser Odd, 2027-2024.

Music

Phil Mathison, ‘The Legend of Ravenser‘, from Celtic Strands (2010).

Bracken, ‘Ravenser Odd’ , from Exist Resist (2014) and ‘Ravenser Odd II’, from High Passes (2016).

The Evening Watch, ‘Ravenser Odd’, from Leaving on My Time (2015).

Aatom, ‘Ravenser Odd’ (2021).

DUIR! ‘Looking for Ravenser Odd’ (2023)

Games

Kenneth Hite, ‘Call of Chicago: The Ravensrodd Horror’ and ‘Trail of Cthulhu: The Shadow over Ravensrodd’ (2017)

Michael Lovejoy, ‘Ravensrodd’, tabletop skirmish game, currently in development.

Film

Ravenser Odd is the name of a US-based film company.

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