My latest collection, Saint Severina’s Fire, has been published by Occult Press and is available to order in both the US and Europe. This is the longest collection I’ve released yet. Nearly half of the book is previously unpublished material. One of the new stories, Caterina’s Mistress, is short novel length (roughly the same size as The Explosion of a Chandelier.)
The stories and novellas in Saint Severina’s Fire blend gnostic exaltation with seditious dissent, all shot through with luxuriance and elegance to comprise a decadent feast for the senses. Narrative threads tied in intricate knots reveal a dazzling array of motifs—wolves made ravenous by consecrated ink, a pornographic book of saints, the deception, seduction, and provocation of a deified magistrate in the heart of the woods, a sect of mystical anarchists in Thessaloniki, the devastating wife of an apostate, and the esoteric bond between tactile poetry and ancient Chinese law, among others. These themes are intricately wound around convoluted games, scandalous oracles, and duplicitous rites, offering feverish prayers to a fire that replenishes more than it consumes.
The contents are as follows:
Abyssinia
Psalms of the Magistrate
Night’s Faithful Forgery
Caterina’s Mistress
Saint Severina’s Fire
The book can be ordered in Europe directly from the publisher in two editions (the third, Magus edition has sold out already):
In the US, the book will be available at Ziesing Books and is available to pre-order from the US distributor, Church Ghost Press:
(pre-ordered copies will be sent out in a couple weeks.)
Images of the Adeptus and Magus editions, along with short excerpts from the stories, will follow on various social media sites.
