The Stories in the Coming Collection
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Accustomed to the Dark is now available for preorder
For details, please go to the publisher’s website.
Something is expected to happen
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Searching for the Hidden City
The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction, edited by Damian Murphy, is now available for pre-order. My contribution is a slightly revised version of ” In Search of the Hidden City”. For more information, see the publisher’s website.
“The Antiquarian’s Story”
“Although little was known about the Buchenhain book collection, it was sufficient to cause quite a stir within the book trade when, following the death of Karl W. Buchenhain, it was put up for sale. Through certain connections, and admittedly employing tactics that might be deemed a little on the wrong side of ethics, I successfully outmanoeuvred my colleagues in the race to gain buyer’s right. The book game is not for the squeamish.”
“The Antiquarian’s Story” is the next title in Zagava’s chapbooks series. IThe hand-sewn booklet will be available for one month only (in this case till the 2nd of June). All orders received till this date determine the print-run – no additional copies will be printed. read more at Zagava.
A Book of Fatal Beauty & Impermanence
I’m pleased to announce the publication of “The Book of Flowering,” a new short story in the THE BOOK OF FLOWERING, an anthology from Egaeus Press.
“… the Furies do not come uninvited”
For inquires and details, please write to: exoccidente[at]gmail[dot]com. Copies of The Sorrows and the Furies should soon be available at Ziesing Books in the US and Fantastic Literature in the UK.
The Forthcoming Flowering
Excerpt from ”The Book of Flowering,” forthcoming in an anthology of weird flowers from Egaeus Press.
Image: Les Origines, Il y eut peut-être une vision première, assoupie dans la fleur by Odilon Redon (1883)
“But you see the irony?”
He held up the book: an edition of The Aeneid in Latin. When I admitted to never having read it, he recited a passage, translating the verse into broken English laced with a French accent. The excerpt told of how a ghastly fury stirred the natives of Italy to receive Aeneas and his fellow Trojans with animosity. “Today the border patrols would’ve stopped the Trojan refugees long before they had reached the shore,” he commented. “But you see the irony?” I did indeed …
Excerpt from “The Lamps of Europe” (THE SORROWS AND THE FURIES, Mount Abraxas Press, 2018).
“But you’re not here to witness dazzling tricks and illusions”
“Not what you expected, I’m sure,” she sneered. She searched her trouser pockets, produced a silken handkerchief with which she covered the tape recorder, saying, “Watch this.” She lifted the handkerchief, drew it swiftly into the air – and the recorder was gone; which was exactly what I had anticipated as should anyone with a mere superficial acquaintance with the repertoire of magicians. Dr Ward, though, gasped and applauded the illusion like a child or a madman. Apparently it was too much for even the performer. “Please,” she muttered, producing a cigarette with a flick of her hand. “As one of my illustrious predecessors once said,” – and here she lit the cigarette with her left index finger – “reason is the great public folly. But you’re not here to witness dazzling tricks and illusions. No, you’ve come to learn the great secret wisdom that will cure you. And what is the great secret wisdom?…”
Excerpt from “The Zalmoxis Treatment” (THE SORROWS AND THE FURIES, Mount Abraxas Press, 2018).
T. Strømsholt