![]() ![]() The real life protagonist of The Gallows Pole is ‘King’ David Hartley, a folk anti-hero who is prone to delusions of grandeur, extreme hallucinations featuring stag-headed men and supreme acts of cruelty and violence. ![]() It was conceived, research and partly written on foot, at an average of 5 miles per day through woods and across moors around West Yorkshire. Some early reviews have mentioned comparisons to The Wire, Deadwood and The Sopranos had they been filmed in the windswept uplands of the Pennines. Theirs is as story of survival, enterprise, community, grand folly, rich versus poor, crime and class warfare. ![]() They were the Cragg Vale Coiners and are every bit as important to the occultist history and narrative of this country as the tails of Beowulf, King Arthur, Robin Hood or Dick Turpin, but much less widely known. The Gallows Pole is a novel inspired by a real gang of criminals who lived in the Upper Calder Valley of West Yorkshire in the 18th century shortly before the industrial age reshaped the landscape and lifestyles of a nations. ![]()
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