Do we always walk in two worlds? Our own we know, or think we know, and another we only glimpse? These twenty-two tales exploring occultism, religiosity, spirituality, existentialism, metaphysics, and the supernatural will attempt to answer that question. From the mind of Aaron J. French, Editor-in-Chief of Dark Discoveries magazine and noted Lovecraftian, comes Aberrations of Reality. Enter the New Age of weird fiction.
"Throughout this fiery modern grimoire of mystical horror, we're conscious of the restless urgency of the writing, as if the author is working against time to conjure onto the pages a sequence of transformations that must be seized and fixed before they dissolve again. Indeed, the task for the acolyte of the literary Mysteries today is to convey strange possibilities in a modern tongue, one which responds to the ceaseless now with news of a different eternity. They must have a need at least to suggest that there are aberrations in the world we usually take for reality. And, as the title of this book suggests, Aaron J. French is one of those willing to respond to that task."
--from the Introduction by weird fiction critic and author Mark Valentine
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Table of Contents
1)Here
& There...
2)Doubting
Thomas
3)Dwellers
in the Cracks
4)Rebirth
in Dreams
5)Horror
Fiction as Mystical Didactic Experience
6)A
Storm of Lightning
7)Whirling
Machine Man
8)The
Graffiti Ghosts
9)What
Lay East, Lay West
10)Golden
Doors to a Golden Age
11)The
Paladin
12)The
Christ
13)Tree
of Life
14)When
Clown Face Speaks
15)My
Stalk
16)The
Four Transitions of the Soul upon Death by David P. Reichmann
17){(California
Sea + Cosmic Man) - Humankind} + Anadyr, Russia = Apocalypse
18)The
Lake
19)Flame
of Freedom
20)Ramifications
of Embrace
21)Marked
as Urgent
22)The
Year of Our Lord
Genre: Horror
"Throughout this fiery modern grimoire of mystical horror, we're conscious of the restless urgency of the writing, as if the author is working against time to conjure onto the pages a sequence of transformations that must be seized and fixed before they dissolve again. Indeed, the task for the acolyte of the literary Mysteries today is to convey strange possibilities in a modern tongue, one which responds to the ceaseless now with news of a different eternity. They must have a need at least to suggest that there are aberrations in the world we usually take for reality. And, as the title of this book suggests, Aaron J. French is one of those willing to respond to that task."
--from the Introduction by weird fiction critic and author Mark Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Table of Contents
1)Here
& There...
2)Doubting
Thomas
3)Dwellers
in the Cracks
4)Rebirth
in Dreams
5)Horror
Fiction as Mystical Didactic Experience
6)A
Storm of Lightning
7)Whirling
Machine Man
8)The
Graffiti Ghosts
9)What
Lay East, Lay West
10)Golden
Doors to a Golden Age
11)The
Paladin
12)The
Christ
13)Tree
of Life
14)When
Clown Face Speaks
15)My
Stalk
16)The
Four Transitions of the Soul upon Death by David P. Reichmann
17){(California
Sea + Cosmic Man) - Humankind} + Anadyr, Russia = Apocalypse
18)The
Lake
19)Flame
of Freedom
20)Ramifications
of Embrace
21)Marked
as Urgent
22)The
Year of Our Lord
Genre: Horror
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