Code: Damp

“LUCIFER ON THE BUSES! Code: Damp is one of the strangest books I have read. As well as one of the most evocative, lateral, sidereal… an unspellable jewel.”
– David Tibet, founder of Current 93

“A most welcome ludibrium, Code: Damp is a tour de force of close-riveted situationist, alchemical and surrealist dives into an imagined unconscious in search of lost insight.”
– Tobias Churton, author of Aleister Crowley

“A quite unparalleled work by a quite remarkable person. The fabric under the surface; the fragments under the whole.”
– Irving Finkel, author of First Ghosts

“Brought here to the surface, to rise and fall again, is a submerged and subverted world of British sitcom, forced to disclose, on its mucky collar, the psychic (in all its senses) residues and stains of military trauma, colonial guilt, musty Rachmanism, fetid marsh air, and an excess of more.”
– Esther Leslie, author of Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical theory and the Avant-Garde

“Variously brilliant and thoroughly bonkers, Code: Damp is definitely on to something: the dank, mildewy, cobwebby, miasmic atmosphere permeating our classic sitcoms, which in retrospect seem more alarming than funny, seedy rather than hilarious.”
– Roger Lewis, author of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

“A surveyor of historic buildings recently exposed the idea of ‘rising damp’ as a fraudulent fiction. This splendidly weird book now emerges to insist, with the help of flickering TV memories and a wealth of other unexpected sources, that the ‘myth’ of rising damp was real enough to enter and perhaps take over the English soul.”
– Patrick Wright, author of The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Jonhson in Sheerness

“This is a singular affair - a true one-off of a book - free of accepted takes and received wisdom.”
– Fortean Times

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea based writer. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, where she now teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies. Her performance work, comprising sound collage and spoken word with printmaking props, occasions numerous performances both nationally and internationally. She writes for publications including The Darkside, The Leigh Times, and The London Drinker.

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