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The Electro-Etheric Minotaur
The Electro-Etheric Minotaur
My latest book, The Electro-Etheric Minotaur, is available to pre-order directly from the publisher, Church Ghost Books (for summer release).
"The six stories and novellas in The Electro-Etheric Minotaur collect all of Damian Murphy's “occult retro-gaming fiction”—including two previously unpublished tales— along with newly commissioned illustrations by Le BLU Read more of this blog post »
My latest book, The Electro-Etheric Minotaur, is available to pre-order directly from the publisher, Church Ghost Books (for summer release).
"The six stories and novellas in The Electro-Etheric Minotaur collect all of Damian Murphy's “occult retro-gaming fiction”—including two previously unpublished tales— along with newly commissioned illustrations by Le BLU Read more of this blog post »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 Exaltation of the Minotaur
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2016
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The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction
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2024
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The Explosion of a Chandelier
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2023
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The Academy Outside of Ingolstadt
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2016
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Abyssinia
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2017
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A Distillate of Heresy
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2014
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"For the past eighty-some day I've read one of Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories each evening. In terms of structural elegance and ingenuity, they're second to none."
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| I could knock a star off for "Of Birds and Beasts," which wasn't nearly as interesting as the other two pieces, but my fascination with the latter overwhelms my lack of interest in the former. I didn't expect, from the description, to find "One Arm" ...more | |
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Second time through. The first time I read this, I wasn't familiar with Bolaño, and consequently liked it better. Between three and four stars. Maybe four for occasional moments of genius and turns of phrase that only Bolaño could have written. This ...more |
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"The Inferno as guided by Nietzsche. An attempt at primal self-purification by the degradation of ecstatic experience inexpressible even to the most desperate edge of annihilation. I thought a lot about the medieval mystics. What a crazy book. She rea"
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The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series):
"There is something seductive and magical about Marguerite Duras. She never settles for the everyday, because I feel every moment is important for Duras. I read "The Lover" many years ago, and thought "hot." But re-reading it after so many years, it i"
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"I read this for the first time in my very early twenties, in the beginning of what was to be three or four of my worst years, fresh out of college and in a new city where I knew almost no one. I think I found it via the Amazon recommendation algorith"
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| I hover between three and four stars. This book has some compelling images, but it's clever in a way that I can't quite condone. That said, I'd be eager to read translations of some of Sternberg's other work. ...more | |
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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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“...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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