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Damian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Damian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Damian Murphy
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Saint Severina's Fire
My latest collection, Saint Severina’s Fire, has been published by Occult Press and is available to order in both the US and Europe. This is the longest collection I’ve released yet. Nearly half of the book is previously unpublished material. One of the new stories, Caterina’s Mistress, is short novel length (roughly the same size as The Explosion of a Chandelier.)
The stories and novell Read more of this blog post »
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Daughters of Apostasy
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2017
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The Acephalic Imperial
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2020
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The Star of Gnosia
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2018
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The Exalted and the Abased
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2021
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The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction
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2024
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The Exaltation of the Minotaur
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2016
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The Explosion of a Chandelier
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2023
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2016
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Abyssinia
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2017
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Psalms of the Magistrate
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Damian’s Recent Updates
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| I can think of a thousand reasons to fault this book, but not a single one of them matters. I keep hovering between 4 and 5 stars. Let's say 5 for the ability of the longer pieces to sustain a mood against all odds. ...more | |
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The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies:
"Fin de siècle French decadent Jane de la Vaudère was born Jeanne Scrive, raised in a convent, fled it, later marrying Camille Crapez, who inherited the Château de la Vaudère. Soon enough, she took to writing. This collection of stories were clearly i"
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Justin wrote: "This reminds me — probably more than a little simply because I just read it — of Maurice Blanchot’s interpretation of The Castle in Spa
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“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.”
― Wound of Wounds
― Wound of Wounds
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| Friends of Snuggl...: Snuggly 2018 | 17 | 77 | Jan 16, 2019 03:05PM | |
| Literary Horror: Gnostic Horror | 3 | 37 | May 29, 2021 01:37PM | |
| Literary Horror: * What Else Are You Reading? | 273 | 337 | Jul 14, 2024 02:45AM |
“...it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.”
― The Sorcerer's Apprentice
― The Sorcerer's Apprentice
“The storyteller: he is the man who could let the wick of his life be consumed completely by the gentle flame of his story”
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“I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my feeling excluded and so on in what might be called “the scene.” There appears to be a particular divide in literature that has “description” and all it implies, as its focus. Some people hate “fancy writing,” and just want to “cut to the chase,” and so on. This attitude deeply irritates me. If you can’t try and take words to their limit in the field of literature, then where can you? I actually think that variety is good, but it’s usually the enemies of “fancy writing” who also seem to deplore variety and believe that there’s only one way to write—without adverbs etc. etc.”
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“As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible.”
― The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
― The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
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