Wryly funny as well as moving and evocative, Hoban wrote it after his post-apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker which portrayed a future state for the world reminiscent of the Middle Ages.
"The Rapture of Riddley Walker" is the eighth song on the Clutch album From Beale Street to Oblivion (2007).
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Hoban began writing the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral.
The novels "The Herb of Grace" (US title: Pilgrim's Inn) (1948) by British author Elizabeth Goudge, and Riddley Walker (1980) by American author Russell Hoban, incorporate the legend into their plot.
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