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Thursday, October 30, 2025

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.




Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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