give up & make strange new friends in the decaying city of moth hovel
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Moth Hovel pamphlets at Exalted Funeral, EEE
I’m delighted to announce that Visit the Weird Decaying City of Moth Hovel and Visit the Wild Decaying Island of Bermoothes are now available in print editions from Exalted Funeral and Emperors of Eternal Evil. (You can still pick the PWYW PDFs up from our itch.io, along with bonus digital hex art.) Visit the Weird…
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Top 10 2025: Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (2010) and Notes on Thought and Vision (1919)
Richard Kaczynski – Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (2010) and H.D. – Notes on Thought and Vision (1982, written in 1919): On the one hand, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is such a bombastic and insufferable person, you’d think it would be painful and tiresome to spend so much time with a comprehensive biography of the…
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Top 10 2025: Two Assassins: Hassan Sabbah / William Burroughs
Oliver Harris/Farid Ghadami – Two Assassins: Hassan Sabbah/William Burroughs (2023): (1) I discovered William S. Burroughs as an adolescent, and my fascination remains, despite having mostly contempt for the Beats (especially Jack Kerouac, whom I utterly despise). Recall Norman Podhoretz’s polemic, “The Know-Nothing Bohemians“: “the plain truth is that the primitivism of the Beat Generation…
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William S. Burroughs: “This is the Time of the Assassins” (1961)
(A strange routine on Hassan Sabbah from the jazz magazine, Metronome, about which more can be read here. Note that “This Is the Time of the Assassins” does not appear on Break Through in Grey Room, an album consisting of Burroughs’s experimental recordings from 1961 to 1976.) Hassan i Sabbah The Old Man on the…
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Trench Crusade: Appendix N
Trench Crusade is a skirmish-scale tabletop miniatures game that plunges players deep into a horrifying alternate timeline. During the Crusades a heretical band of Templars dared defy the Almighty, unleashing the forces of Hell upon the Earth. Over 800 years later, in the Year of Our Lord 1914, this merciless war between the forces of…
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M. J. Bassett: Deathwatch (2002)
Deeply underrated cinematography and shot composition in this largely forgotten WWI trench chiller.
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Claude Cloutier: La tranchée (2010)
La Tranchée (2010) is a short film directed by Claude Cloutier that blends traditional animation with nightmarish surrealism to depict the horrors of trench warfare.
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Eddie M. Angerhuber’s “Heart of Darkness” (2002)
Eddie M. Angerhuber’s short story “Heart of Darkness” appeared first in 2002 in her now-long-out-of-print volume Nocturnal Products (translated by Angerhuber from the German originals). For more on Angerhuber, see “The Lamentable Obscurity of Eddie Angerhuber’s Nocturnal Products” at Grim Reviews, Sɫawomir Weilhorski’s “Eddie M. Angerhuber’s Strange Visions” in Ex Occidente/Mount Abraxas Press’ Cloistered by…
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Eddie M. Angerhuber’s “The Blue Star” (2000)
Eddie M. Angerhuber’s short story “The Blue Star” (English version) appeared first in April 2000 in “The GrimScribe in Cyberspace: (a tribute to Thomas Ligotti),” a special issue of the TERROR TALES e-mail zine by John B. Ford. For more on Angerhuber, see “The Lamentable Obscurity of Eddie Angerhuber’s Nocturnal Products” at Grim Reviews, Sɫawomir…
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Top ten reads: 2024
1. Ariel Helfer (trans.) and Plato – Plato’s “Letters”: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life (2023): A common move in contemporary Platonic hermeneutics is to look for any excuse to avoid reading, spending time on, or taking seriously the entirety of the Platonic corpus as it was received and understood for many centuries after…
NIGHT IS ALSO A SUN – BATAILLE
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