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.

Weird Fiction in Mount Abraxas' Frostsigils

I contributed to Mount Abraxas' Frostsigils, 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.

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

Original fiction in "All is Full of Hell," a book for William Blake

"All is Full of Hell" was Ex Occidente/Mount Abraxas' book for William Blake, published in 2017. 

My piece "The Torso in Shadow" was included.