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Monday, August 1, 2022

A Booklet From Mount Abraxas: The Hag, The Cutthroat, The Amputee

Late posting this but: Mount Abraxas of Bucharest has published my short anti-nationalist screed The Hag, The Cutthroat, The Amputee in an attractive limited edition pamphlet with excellent artwork by Heo Tsop

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

URX-QUONOX

My short book Urx-Quonox was published by Mount Abraxas Press (Bucharest) in 2021. Long in the works, it’s a work of literary weird fiction that engages the thought of Robert E. Howard, Georges Bataille, and others



Northern Sea Songs

I contributed a story titled “The Oligomancer” to an anthology from Egaeus Press called “Songs of the Northern Seas.” Published December 2021.




Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Weird Fiction in Mount Abraxas' Frostsigils

I contributed to Mount AbraxasFrostsigils, a book of art and text dedicated to the music and atmospheres of Paysage d'Hiver. My piece borrowed its title from Werner Herzog: "A Forest With Its Mouth Open Wide."

A Translation in "Crystal Castles" (Raphus Press)

I am responsible for a translation of a poem of Tristan Corbière that appeared in Raphus Press' Crystal Castles in 2020. This was a limited edition collection of fiction around the theme of intoxication. 
Also appearing were Roman Lasalle, Rhys Hughes, Fernando Naporano, Justin Isis, Fábio Waki, Jonathan Wood, Chris Mikul, D. P. Watt, Thomas Phillips, Fernando Klabin and Stephan Friedman.

I reproduce it here: 

The Poet’s Pipe (La Pipe d’un Poete)

 

I’m the pipe the poet smokes 

The tit he sucks,

I’m the one who sedates his beastly nature.


He summons ragged monsters

To bash him in the face, 

So I smoke... until he no longer sees

          The spiders on the ceiling.


I make for him a sky, clouds, 

The sea, the desert, mirages;

He lets his dead eye wander there...


And when they fall too heavy—thoughts of nude bodies— 

And he thinks he sees a shadow he knows,

I’m the one who feels the bite on my stem.


Another volute of smoke releases

His Soul, his shackles, his life!

And I feel myself dying away. He sleeps—


—Sleeping still, the beast is calmed,

And your dreams go to the end of the line

Poor bastard! If it’s true

That everything is smoke then smoke is everything...

Fiction in Borges tribute The Conspirators

I contributed to Raphus Press' anthology in tribute to Borges, The Conspirators, published in 2019. 

The gentlemen contributing to this book were: Rhys Hughes, Mark Valentine and John Howard, Fábio Waki, Thomas Phillips, Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, Justin Isis, Jonathan Wood, Stephan Friedman, Brendan Connell, D. P. Watt, Adam S. Cantwell, Eric Stener Carlson, Fernando Klabin, and Roman Lasalle.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Fiction in Cioran volume "Wound of Wounds"


Wound of Wounds
was Ex Occidente/Mount Abraxas' book in tribute to Emil Cioran, published in 2017.

 My piece in the book is titled "The European Monster Part II," it's a despairing meta-fiction. 

Great work in this one: 

Misanthropos by Eugene Thacker

The Infinite Error by Jon Padgett

The Aristocracy of Weak Nerves by Justin Isis

Obsolete Systems by Adam Golaski

Bach’s Marionettes by Douglas Thompson

This Disquiet Demiurge by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel

The Translator of God's Silences by Thomas Stromsholt

Saint Severina's Fire by Damian Murphy

He is Heading Your Way Already by Rhys Hughes

Decade by D.P. Watt

The Genealogy of Night by Andrew Condous

Horrill Hill by Karim Ghahwagi

Dead Engrained Skin by Jonathan Wood

The Treasons of the Rue de L'Odeon by Colin Insole

The Funeral Cry by Stephan Friedman

The European Monster Part II by Adam S. Cantwell

Untitled by Charles Schneider

Adam's bookshelf: read

A Pallid Wave on Shores of Night
Cinnabar's Gnosis
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait
The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Stories
THE WHITE HANDS AND OTHER WEIRD TALES
Dark Gods
The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith
The End Of The Story: The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1
The Door To Saturn: The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 2
Malpertuis
More Nightmares
2666
The Romantic Dogs
The Dying Earth
The Eyes of the Overworld
Vathek
The Monk
Why Not You and I
Dark Crusade
Beyond the Fields We Know


Klarkash's favorite books
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