Dawn of Heresy

Justin Isis has conducted an epic-length Paris Review-style interview with me, which can be found on his website. With the expertise of a master cartographer, he's managed to draw out several of the secret inner workings of my fiction. The interview is preceded by an essay on the possibilities of occult fiction adapted from a lecture I gave a little over a year ago for the official release of Daughters of Apostasy.

The Axis of the Lodestone

I'm very happy to announce that my novella "The Axis of the Lodestone" will be featured, alongside novellas by Colin Insole and Richard Gavin, in the up-coming Sarob Press anthology Their Dark & Secret Alchemy.

Further details, including pre-order information, can be found at the Sarob Press website. Publication is currently scheduled for April, 2019.

Noctifer Ascending

Psalms of the Magistrate is back from the printer, and it turned out every bit as exquisite as expected. Warm, red pages with black type, luxuriously printed end-papers, fine cloth boards with engraved text—it's unlike any other book I've seen before.

(photos by Dan Ghetu)

The book can be purchased directly from the publisher by sending an inquiry to exoccidente@gmail.com, or pre-ordered from Cold Tonnage in the UK or Ziesing Books in the US.

Psalms of the Magistrate

I am honored and more than pleased to announce that my latest novella, Psalms of the Magistrate, will be released on Mount Abraxas Press within the next week. The book, which promises to be the most exquisite of my works released on this fabulous press yet, will be printed entirely in black ink on thick, red paper.

Psalms of the Magistrate is a hallucinatory novella featuring rites of seduction and deception, stolen keys and cryptographic canticles, the oracular pronouncements of a fetishist and the pernicious kiss of the whip, all of which are inextricably bound by threads of innocence and provocation beneath the devastating shadow of a local deity.

The book can be purchased directly from the publisher by sending an inquiry to exoccidente@gmail.com, or pre-ordered from Cold Tonnage in the UK or Ziesing Books in the US. 

Flower Dream Sermon

I am honored to announce that my story, "Flower Dream Sermon", is included in the anthology from Egaeus Press, The Book of Flowering.

The book will feature new tales of strangeness, beauty, impermanence, and exfoliation by Mark Valentine, V. H. Leslie, Charles Schneider, Thomas Strømsholt, Timothy J. Jarvis, Mat Joiner, Ron Weighell, Tiffani Angus, John Gale, Reggie Oliver, Sheryl Humphrey, D. P. Watt, Colin Insole, Alison Littlewood, Jonathan Wood, Rebecca Kuder, N. A. Jackson, and myself.

The book is now available to order from the Egaeus Press website.

The Star of Gnosia

I am elated to announce that The Star of Gnosia, my second offering on Snuggly Books, is now officially released and available for order.

The Star of Gnosia collects five hallucinatory narratives steeped in secrecy and transgression, complex rites and protocols, the delirium of the sleepless wanderer and the obsessions of the savant.

Ceremonial initiations, forgotten sacraments, inexplicable machines, and God-intoxicated exiles are brought together by duplicitous stratagems and infernal revelations in which the gates of the senses are ravaged by fires both sacerdotal and profane.

Contents:

The Imperishable Sacraments 

The Apostatical Ascetic 

A Perilous Ordeal

The Hour of the Minotaur

The Star of Gnosia 

The final story in the book, "The Star of Gnosia", is a fairly long novella that has not been published elsewhere. 

The book is available directly from Snuggly Books, as well as from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, et al. 

Drowing in Beauty

I am honored, soaked in ether, distilled, and ceremonially set aflame to announce the availability of Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology, published by Snuggly Books, edited by Daniel Corrick and Justin Isis, and including a story by myself.

From the publisher: 

From the ashes of countless decayed Modernities comes Neo-Decadence, a profaned cathedral whose broken stained glass windows still glitter irregularly in the harsh light of a Symbolist sun. Behind this marvellously vandalised edifice, a motley band of revellers picnic in the graveyard of the Real, leaving behind all manner of rotting delicacies and toxic baubles in their wake. During the last eighty years, world culture has seen an explosion of popular aesthetics, art-forms and the movements associated with them: clothing, trends in fashion, tattoos, recreational drugs, musical sub-cultures, cosmetics, photography—all of which can be the subject of obsessions, damnations and salvations. Devices and formats, initially vulgar, are worshipped, only to be forgotten by all but the few initiates who, through their maniacal fixations, manage to uncover their hidden allure. These twelve stories and their preceding manifestos, then, arise from a shift in aesthetic consciousness: synaesthesia, ecstasy in extremes, the Divine and Infernal alike seen through a neurasthenic lens of supreme focus.

Daniel Corrick - Introduction

Brendan Connell - First Manifesto of Neo-Decadence

Justin Isis - Second Manifesto of Neo-Decadence

Brendan Connell - Molten Rage

Justin Isis - The Quest for Nail Art

Damian Murphy - A Mansion of Sapphire

Yarrow Paisley - Arnold of Our Time

Ursula Pflug - Fires Halfway

Colby Smith - Somni Draconis

Colin Insole - The Meddlers

DP Watt - Jack

Avalon Brantley - Great Seizers' Ghosts

Daniel Corrick - Chameleon is to Peacock as Salamander is to Phoenix

Quentin S. Crisp - Amen 

James Champagne - XYSchaton

Paperback, 256 pages

USA: $16.95

The book is available directly from the publisher, as well as Amazon, Book Depository, and several other distributors.