My second book of 2026, The Electro-Etheric Minotaur, is available for pre-order directly from the publisher, Church Ghost Press. The book, illustrated and designed by Le.BLUE, is a finely printed paperback of 204 pages and features an introduction by Justin Isis.
https://www.churchghost.com/product-page/the-electro-etheric-minotaur
"The six stories and novellas in The Electro-Etheric Minotaur collect all of Damian Murphy’s 'occult retro-gaming fiction'—including two previously unpublished tales— along with newly commissioned illustrations by Le.BLUE. Combining the aesthetic motifs and arcane mechanics of vintage electronic gaming with the gnostic exaltation of ancient and modern occultism, this is fiction as Metroidvania: nonlinear exploration in the search for keys and secrets.
Murphy’s rich prose is like a cheat code from a half-remembered dream (or nightmare)… where sadomasochistic rites combine with vector angels and spectral wolf-sprites in mazes with flickering walls…"
The contents are as follows:
Magnetic North (previously unpublished)
A Night of Amethyst
Hallazgo (previously unpublished)
Night Lamp Lotus
A Book of Alabaster
From the introduction: "Although the juxtaposition of occult ritual and modern electronic gaming may at first seem incongruous, anyone who has ever pursued either activity seriously will have had intimations of the other. Notions of secret areas and strategies, exploitable glitches and hidden codes, always formed part of the gaming experience, and all of them have their correspondences in occult practice."
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