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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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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in The Electro-Etheric Minotaur collect all of Damian Murphy's “occult retro-gaming fiction”—including two previously unpublished tales— along with newly commissioned illustrations by Le BLU Read more of this blog post »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in The Electro-Etheric Minotaur collect all of Damian Murphy's “occult retro-gaming fiction”—including two previously unpublished tales— along with newly commissioned illustrations by Le BLU Read more of this blog post »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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2016
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Abyssinia
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2017
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Damian’s Recent Updates
"This author has produced 2 novels. About 10% of the way into reading this one, his second, I purchased the first one, The Autodidacts. The cover of the 1st novel intrigues me. The cover of this one puzzles me. I imagine it is a riff on synapses withi"
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Damian Murphy
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Jonathan's review
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The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3):
"Read twice now. Once back when I was in my early 20s after being pointed toward it by George Steiner and Kundera, and now again in the second half of my 40s. Remains a stunning piece of work and one which amazingly manages to perform the very breakdo"
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Damian Murphy
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L.S. Popovich's
blog post:
Review of Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
"Too many, if not nearly all, contemporary novels seem to operate solely through wish fulfillment, or seem to be scarcely veiled fan fiction, or retreads of a familiar and ‘safe’ plot. Attempts are usually made to avoid difficult twists or scenes ..."
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"Along with Practicalities, the title essay that makes up much of this book is an essential self-reflection on Duras' work and process. The others, flickeringly intriguing, sometimes feel a little out-of-context (I believe several, including Writing i"
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Damian Murphy
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The Electro-Etheric Minotaur
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| Five stars on the basis that the story is a complex allegory of the political situation in Hungary at the time it was written (the late 1930s.) I could be way off base on this, but I cannot understand the outcome of the narrative in any other way. Th ...more | |
“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
Topics Mentioning This Author
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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 | 339 | 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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