Monday, August 1, 2022
A Booklet From Mount Abraxas: The Hag, The Cutthroat, The Amputee
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
URX-QUONOX
My short book Urx-Quonox was published by Mount Abraxas Press (Bucharest) in 2021. It’s a work of literary weird fiction/sword & sorcery 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
A Translation in "Crystal Castles" (Raphus Press)
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.
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