Interview: URX-QUONOX, S&S, The Occult with Church Ghost Distro

The incredible Church Ghost Distro posted the interview I did - the occasion being Church Ghost's convenient US stocking and shipping of the Occult Press edition of my Sword & Sorcery novel URX-QUONOX along with other incomparable titles from OP. 

We discuss the occult as relates to weird and barbarian fiction; the politics and visual art of S&S; the personal practice of the occult vs its literary presentation; and more. 

https://churchghost.substack.com/p/the-bataille-barbarian

https://www.churchghost.com/product-page/urx-quonox

https://occultpress.net/

https://occultpress.net/urx-quonox/

Addendum: Onyx Book of Occult Fiction features "Moonpaths of the Departed" from A Pallid Wave on Shores of Night

I had a lot of news in the previous post but I forgot one of the best pieces: my story "Moonpaths of the Departed" from A Pallid Wave on Shores of Night was selected for The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction from Snuggly Books.  I scarcely believed it myself, maybe that's why. 

Nice table of contents with this one, Reggie Oliver, Mark Valentine, Farah Rose Smith, Connell, Weighell, Damian Murphy, on and on. 

Snuggly did a series of these occult anthologies, this was the sixth. The others contained historical writers, this was the only one to feature contemporary/recent authors. Edited by Damian Murphy. 

This should be easy to order and reasonably priced, in hardcover or trade paperback.

October 30 2025

Hello, living in the US feels like being inside A Descent into the Maelstrom but depressing, but here is a new post, in which I have new things to talk about. This blog is stale because I'm suspiciously bad at self-promotion for my writing. But anyway! 

• My most recent story collection (see preceding blog post) was 2022's A Forest with its Mouth Open Wide from Personnel Press in California. The publisher sold it through Amazon where it is now out of print. I am selling the last handful of my copies on eBay, look it up if interested. Available signed, inscribed, with drawing of a skull, etc. 
• I wrote a new story since then, for a book for Ernst Jünger published by Raphus Press (Brasilia). Its title was "The Man With Rose Breasts". Raphus' excellent books can usually be found at https://www.ziesings.com/
• My short sword & sorcery book URX-QUONOX was re-published in a new edition from Occult Press (Italy), actually two, a hardcover that is now sold out and a paperback edition of 120. These are very well-made books with superb paper and binding. https://occultpress.net/urx-quonox/   
• My next short story was announced in Raphus' forthcoming book for Hasan-i-Sabah, my piece to be called "Captagon Summer". 
• Working on my next submission, should have specifics before the end of the year.
• There may be more book news in the near future, there are grumblings. 

I'll do a separate post here soon about books not my own.

A Forest With Its Mouth Open Wide, a collection from Personnel Press (CA, USA)

Personnel Press published my collection of weird fiction A Forest With Its Mouth Open Wide & Other Stories in November 2022. It is a jacketed hardcover printed in an edition of 200. Artwork is by Nao Ikuma. 

These pieces are mostly taken from various previously published collections, literary tributes or themed anthologies, written between 2015 and 2021. Also included is my short novel Orphans On Granite Tides, published by Ex Occidente/Les Editions de l'Oubli in 2013 as a limited hardcover. 

Contents:   

    Orphans on Granite Tides

    Black Chroma 

    The Chamber in the Universe 

    The European Monster Part II 

    Torso In Shadow 

    The Bow, The Arm, The Arrow 

    A Forest With Its Mouth Open Wide

    Vod The Wrecker 

    The Oligomancer

    The Hag, The Cutthroat, The Amputee

Recent Reading, Purging

Recently reading: 

Entombed by Guy N. Smith (will not finish)

Lords of the Starship by Mark Geston

The Ship by Hans Henny Jahnn

Also recently I capriciously deleted my Goodreads account of many years. Now I really regret losing the (incomplete) list of my books. People seem to really hate that site but I really never used it for anything other than cataloging my stuff. I'll probably reclaim my page or whatever it's called but I don't think I can re-do all that work. 

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4842152.Adam_S_Cantwell

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. 

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