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Writer, artist, and 3D sculptor Prae Obscura is an independent author of speculative fiction and surreal horror. His work focuses on cruelty, madness, plurality, and the dynamics of social classifications. Crepuscular Angles was his first book, followed by Sund's Rending. ...more

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Crepuscular Angles

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The Serpent Must Die by Verse Atoui
The Serpent Must Die
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"My mother tongue is that of the stars singing as the world put itself together."
The Serpent Must Die, evoking themes and characters explored in Verse's earlier works Lion in Human Hide, May The Moon Shine Upon Camlann, and To Skin a Lindworm, discu
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Irkalla's ascent from the underworld by Verse Atoui
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Framed by Astolpho, a paladin of Charlemagne, speaking with Ereshkigal, the Sumerian goddess who oversees the underworld, Kur. The narrative aligns his account on the left, and her comments on the right. Astolpho's betrayal by Alcina is well-describe ...more
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May The Moon Shine Upon Camlann by Verse Atoui
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This work investigates a bag of teeth, or a knight in a lake, or a werewolf, as told by a florist, Ilana, who regularly encounters the god-slaying knight Estout (or Astolpho, or Bedivere, or both, or neither). God-slaying is less an act of deicide, m ...more
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Lion in human hide by Verse Atoui
Lion in human hide
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While very different in setting, tone, and execution, reading this brought to mind Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal. Taking place on an alternate-history Earth, Lion in Human Hide follows Declan, a college student of the Bardic Arts who, at a young ag ...more
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Renault of the Styx by Verse Atoui
Renault of the Styx
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Renault of Montauban, much like Astolpho from Irkalla's Ascent from the Underworld, was present in Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (though, more notably, he originates from Quatre Fils Aymon). This work is a loose sequel to Irkalla's Ascent, and ...more
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Irkalla's ascent from the underworld by Verse Atoui
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Framed by Astolpho, a paladin of Charlemagne, speaking with Ereshkigal, the Sumerian goddess who oversees the underworld, Kur. The narrative aligns his account on the left, and her comments on the right. Astolpho's betrayal by Alcina is well-describe ...more
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Horny Tales of Horned People by Verse Atoui
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The One From Carcosa is told in a diary format, without designation of dates, with visceral use of sensory descriptions. There is a fantastic sense of disorientation and haze, like a written hypnagogic hallucination. Repetition is effectively used to ...more
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