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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 Ideal Candidate
I'm pleased and honored to announce that have a new book out on Occult Press. The Ideal Candidate collects a previously unpublished novella (the title story) and two previously uncollected short stories. The contents are as follows:
The Ideal Candidate
The Embassy at Fontainebleau
A Token Derangement of the Senses
The book can be ordered in three editions: A fine thread-stitched paperback book, limit Read more of this blog post »
The Ideal Candidate
The Embassy at Fontainebleau
A Token Derangement of the Senses
The book can be ordered in three editions: A fine thread-stitched paperback book, limit 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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3 editions
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The Exalted and the Abased
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2021
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The Explosion of a Chandelier
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2023
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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 Academy Outside of Ingolstadt
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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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2019
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Damian’s Recent Updates
"Looking at the other reviews, it would seem nearly impossible to surmise what The Plains is about. And it really is a struggle to describe the novel. Even Ben Lerner has tried (and largely failed, in my opinion). So, too, I am doomed to fail. If I we"
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"Struggled through this early Duras because my experience was tainted by my having read and loved late Duras, when she managed to whittle her prose down to its barest essentials and refined her austere minimalism to its sharpest edge. The violence of "
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"In her portrayal of two women who abandon societal norms and instead pursue depravity and anarchy at every turn, Jane Bowles has written a novel that's strange, darkly funny, discomforting, and alienating to read.
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"A towering achievement, and thematically so close to my heart in many ways. It's remarkable how ambitious and singular, and apparently maligned, this novel was in relation to the modernism of her time. Stripped of the existence of any interior life a"
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“The man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension.” On America: “…an advertisement of optimism spread out like a neon carpet in front of the night and death…” |
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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 | 76 | Jan 16, 2019 03:05PM | |
| Literary Horror: Gnostic Horror | 3 | 36 | May 29, 2021 01:37PM | |
| Literary Horror: * What Else Are You Reading? | 273 | 335 | 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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