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The Devil's Library
The Devil's Library is a book of lies, a book about books that don't exist, a book about dark magic hidden in the written word. The imagined texts are sometimes ancient, sometimes apocryphal. There are devils and wraiths, killers and demonologists, prophets and philosophers. The Devil's Library is a collection of fables and imaginary, fabulous, and sometimes murderous. This text is not a road-and once it's been opened, there's no turning back.
Browse the stacks of The Devil's Library at your peril! You'll find obscure but fascinating treatises demonstrating that God cannot be perfect, labyrinthine heretical arguments against traditional morals, and reports of the mysterious deaths and murders of authors. A demonic alternative version of Genesis turns sacred history upside down. Who knew that the devil was not only a humorist but the author of frightening underground books? Discover them here.
-Gary Shapiro, author, Nietzsche's Great Events, Great Politics
Hoax meets homage in this glorious collection, an imaginary where bespoke apocrypha and wishful thinking invite us into a labyrinth of possibility, association, and a kind of readerly revisionist collaboration. Funny, subversive, and authoritatively anti-authoritarian, Glage finds no tradition unassailable or otherwise invulnerable to his joyful repurposing. What Stanley Crawford did for travel writing in Travel Notes, Glage does for storytelling and bibliophilia. Joachim Glage is not only a writers' writer but writing's writer. Borges is dancing in his grave.
-Andrew Tonkovich, editor, Santa Monica Review
Browse the stacks of The Devil's Library at your peril! You'll find obscure but fascinating treatises demonstrating that God cannot be perfect, labyrinthine heretical arguments against traditional morals, and reports of the mysterious deaths and murders of authors. A demonic alternative version of Genesis turns sacred history upside down. Who knew that the devil was not only a humorist but the author of frightening underground books? Discover them here.
-Gary Shapiro, author, Nietzsche's Great Events, Great Politics
Hoax meets homage in this glorious collection, an imaginary where bespoke apocrypha and wishful thinking invite us into a labyrinth of possibility, association, and a kind of readerly revisionist collaboration. Funny, subversive, and authoritatively anti-authoritarian, Glage finds no tradition unassailable or otherwise invulnerable to his joyful repurposing. What Stanley Crawford did for travel writing in Travel Notes, Glage does for storytelling and bibliophilia. Joachim Glage is not only a writers' writer but writing's writer. Borges is dancing in his grave.
-Andrew Tonkovich, editor, Santa Monica Review
247 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2025
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