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I just received the Damian Murphy. I’m excited to read it, although I would have liked one of the original abyssinia books.
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Beautiful looking books! I am clueless about the authors though. Folks on ligotti.net are really openminded to reading a lot of new authors!
Two are lesser known authors from last century. I think Damian Murphy is well worth checking out. A true occult writer.Beautiful looking books! I am clueless about the authors though. Folks on ligotti.net are really openminded to reading a lot of new authors!
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"Occult writer". That's got a nice ring to it.
I feel the older I get, the more impatient and wary I grow of books with any pedestrian sentences, ordinary conversation, prosaic structure, and everyday events, meant to build up a realistic and convincing setting in preparation for more fantastic things to come. Very little patience with that. I want, from the very start, each and every sentence to be poetry, to lift me out of this unbearably mundane world through some at least subtle suggestion of the otherwordly. Perhaps that is too much to ask.
I feel the older I get, the more impatient and wary I grow of books with any pedestrian sentences, ordinary conversation, prosaic structure, and everyday events, meant to build up a realistic and convincing setting in preparation for more fantastic things to come. Very little patience with that. I want, from the very start, each and every sentence to be poetry, to lift me out of this unbearably mundane world through some at least subtle suggestion of the otherwordly. Perhaps that is too much to ask.
This is probably different, but I am also wary of books with pedestrian prose, though that is always debatable.
I call Damian Murphy an occult writer because that's the best way to describe him. It's not really horror, and it is weird, but mostly occult. I've read several of his books/stories. He seems to write mostly medium length stories. And they're often atmospheric.
Daughters of Apostasy, Star of Gnosia, The Acephalic Imperial, The Exalted and the Abased, etc. I also read the title story in that book above "St Severina's Fire" in The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction, from Snuggly Books. It was the one I liked best, though there is also a story from R. Ostermeier which gives it stiff competition.
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Here are some books that arrived this week from Caitlin R. Kiernan. Yes, they are by her, but are also from her via her website.
The two at the bottom accompany two of her collections, which I already had, but not with the extras. All of these books are beautiful.
As with Broodcomb Press, I don't understand why she isn't more widely read. But then again, maybe I do. They are both favorites...
The two at the bottom accompany two of her collections, which I already had, but not with the extras. All of these books are beautiful.
As with Broodcomb Press, I don't understand why she isn't more widely read. But then again, maybe I do. They are both favorites...
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These two arrived today. I'd never heard of him, but thanks to a couple of you here, that has changed. I went for the inexpensive copies I could find, and of course I paid for them with a compromise in quality and aesthetics. They are print on demand, a format I am regularly disappointed by. Part of the problem for me is that they (and these) are too large, a full 6x9. But it's also the look of the page, both in the margins being too narrow and the text too dense. It makes for diminished reading experience. The Alraune isn't too bad, but Strange Tales is miserable. Or maybe I'm the one who's miserable.
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This beauty.
Cool! Show us something from the inside...
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