Page 15 of We Are Toten Herzen

Mark Lawson

  "Jonathan Knight you were writing about Toten Herzen back in the 1970s. You were suspicious of their behaviour and I believe the first person to suggest there might be something supernatural about them. How did they react to you at the time?"

  Jonathan Knight

  "I'd be surprised if they even knew I existed. I contributed to several underground magazines at the time such as Macabre, Within the Gothic Arch, Land of Plenty, that sort of thing and had a number of short stories published in anthologies, but I doubt if more than a few thousand people read any of it. There weren't the outlets back then. Terence has probably been read by more people in the last week than I had in several years in the 1970s."

  Mark Lawson

  "And of course that kind of coverage brings with it a responsibility which is being heavily debated at the moment. It's very easy to use the power of social media to attack somebody, especially if you can do so anonymously. Terence Pearl what has been the reaction to your accusations that the band are a suicide cult?"

  "Can you hear this?" said Elaine to Wallet.

  "Just reading one of his essays now. Apparently you're the relative of a 13th century German Cathar called Dalen."

  "That would be my Uncle Brian. Wonder where he found that."

  "Ancestry.com probably."

 
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