The covers and some excerpts from my copy of Musrum! The back cover reads:
“Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw, the authors of MUSRUM, are both English.
Mr. Thacker, a Methodist minister from a town outside of Rotherham, England, is forty-five and the pastor of a church which in palmier days generally seated four hundred parishioners every Sunday. Today he generally preaches to about forty. The main point of historic interest about his parsonage is the outhouse, where Thacker's eldest daughter first wrote the word Musrum. "We were trying to grow mushrooms, and this was her attempt to write the word. Immediately it struck me as significant, and I wrote to Tony Earnshaw about it. It is the greatest thing that has happened to us!
Anthony Earnshaw is an art teacher from Leeds who openly admits to being an atheist. Long-time friends, Messrs. Thacker and Earnshaw have corresponded since Mr. Thacker was sent to the Far East in the army. MUSRUM was also an epistolary collaboration which grew surrealistically through their exchange of letters. "We set out to write a humorous fantasy and these other things emerged. Musrum is a demigod who is King of Intersol. He has a garden of Eden and a Tree of Life and there's an Adversary called the Weedking, who naturally covets it.
There's a Creation, a Death and a Resurrection, a Holy War, a Messianic Banquet. Tony thinks it's highly Biblical, but it just shows he's never read the Bible.”
This is such a funky and unique book, I really love it and you can see why I took it as my name on here :)
