How to Bake a Breadling — A Lore Game Book by Brad Hock
How to Bake a Breadling is a lore game book (loreGB) published by Hollow Press. It takes the form of a standalone manuscript — presented as a discovered document from 1973 — that operates simultaneously as dark fiction, cryptic recipe book, and game object. The conceit is sustained throughout: the reader encounters instructions, lore, and imagery that belong to a coherent if deeply strange internal world.
The production reflects Hollow Press's standard for limited-edition artist publications. The book is bound in a padded hardcover with UV spot printing, stitched binding, and a silk ribbon bookmark. Interior pages are printed full-color on Magno Usomano 140g paper across 128 pages in A5 format. The edition is limited to 1500 copies.
Brad Hock is a Los Angeles-based stop motion filmmaker whose practice engages ancient myths and symbols through surreal narrative structures. He directed the animated short Oldboy's Apples. How to Bake a Breadling extends that sensibility into the book format — the result sits somewhere between artist publication, game supplement, and fictional artifact.
The title is part of Lokator100's selection of Artbooks & Artist Publications, where experimental storytelling objects of this kind are catalogued alongside photobooks and artist-driven printed matter.
