The Holloway x Black Shuck: JUSTIN HOPPER'S THE GREAT SATANIC SWINDLE

Friday, 1 August 2025 at 22:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

The Holloway Presents The Great Satanic Swindle: A bizarre true tale of Tabloid England. Once, a mysterious stranger arrived in a small Sussex village and told a tale of witchcraft, trapped souls and a life-or-death struggle with Satan himself. A group of church-goers, millionaires and aristocrats stepped in to save him, and things got very weird. A raunchy, true-crime folk-horror comedy of 1980s England, The Great Satanic Swindle is a story about two friends who challenged what it means to believe in something – and someone – no matter how irrational. Author and spoken-word artist Justin Hopper tells a story that is at once utterly unbelievable and entirely true. Justin P. Hopper is an American-British writer working at the intersection of uncanny landscapes, memory and myth. His work includes books (The Old Weird Albion; Obsolete Spells), spoken-word recording projects (Chanctonbury Rings and The Path, Ghost Box Records) and live performances (incl. Barbican, Brighton Festival, Nati…