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Drippy Trippy Doom
Inhabitants of a forgotten California community experience contact with a multifarious interdimensional consciousness. Thirteen tales of weird horror and science fiction, all drenched in psychedelic doom. Overlapping investigations into eldritch mutation and diseased alienation. Swallow with care.
218 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2025
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March 21, 2026
Well, I can honestly say I've never read anything quite like this, which, based on the book, I'm betting is something the author was going for. I'd say overall, it was a fun but challenging read. At times it's a bit too much, but mostly it's fun to connect the dots and try to understand the happenings of San Tobit county.
So on the 'a bit too much' side; one story that was very representative of the others was about a member of a future, post-human civilization contacting a current day patient with a brain tumor through telepathy. The bulk of the text is complex lore, the history of this bizzaro future world and trippy descriptions of the processes that allow for said telepathy. It goes on for a while, the patient explaining all this to another individual. Finally, the character listening to this whole ordeal has this thought, "[Her] sentence structure was torturous. She would toss in intractable vocabulary who's twisting grammar left me grappling to keep up with the incessant stream of words. It was all dreary nonsense." This had to be self-referential, right? A tongue-in-cheek wink to the reader? At its worst, that's what a lot of the writing feels like. And the quoted passage appears in a story that is honestly among the easier to understand. Throughout the book, I would read whole passages and then just think, what did any of that mean? You could spend several minutes going over a single sentence, looking up words and esoteric images from mythology, only to come away feeling like you only got a glimpse of some deeper meaning.
So yeah, sometimes it can be a little bit out there, and not always in a good way. I think I like the slightly more narrative stories a bit more than prose poetry of others. Words Grow Weird in Alphabet Gardens was probably my favorite. I also liked Escape and Radiate. Being a fan of Norse Mythology, I loved all the oblique references- Vanaheim Hills, the Eddic like alliteration, a literal quote from Grimnismal- it feels like the author really knows what he's talking about, and makes me want to dive into other topics he brought up that I didn't understand as well. And finally putting some of the pieces together near the end of the book is also really satisfying. But I felt like I never fully figured it out, which again is fine if you had a good time throughout.
This book won't be for everyone, but I enjoyed it. If you're looking for a challenge and are fascinated with myth and/or esotericism, give it a chance.
Also, I don't know if the author is the same guy that's cranked out like 200 shitty recipe books or not, but it would weirdly makes sense if it is and it's a very funny coincidence if not. Like, the guy who's job it is to write recipe books for some faceless company probably writes shit like this in his free time.
So on the 'a bit too much' side; one story that was very representative of the others was about a member of a future, post-human civilization contacting a current day patient with a brain tumor through telepathy. The bulk of the text is complex lore, the history of this bizzaro future world and trippy descriptions of the processes that allow for said telepathy. It goes on for a while, the patient explaining all this to another individual. Finally, the character listening to this whole ordeal has this thought, "[Her] sentence structure was torturous. She would toss in intractable vocabulary who's twisting grammar left me grappling to keep up with the incessant stream of words. It was all dreary nonsense." This had to be self-referential, right? A tongue-in-cheek wink to the reader? At its worst, that's what a lot of the writing feels like. And the quoted passage appears in a story that is honestly among the easier to understand. Throughout the book, I would read whole passages and then just think, what did any of that mean? You could spend several minutes going over a single sentence, looking up words and esoteric images from mythology, only to come away feeling like you only got a glimpse of some deeper meaning.
So yeah, sometimes it can be a little bit out there, and not always in a good way. I think I like the slightly more narrative stories a bit more than prose poetry of others. Words Grow Weird in Alphabet Gardens was probably my favorite. I also liked Escape and Radiate. Being a fan of Norse Mythology, I loved all the oblique references- Vanaheim Hills, the Eddic like alliteration, a literal quote from Grimnismal- it feels like the author really knows what he's talking about, and makes me want to dive into other topics he brought up that I didn't understand as well. And finally putting some of the pieces together near the end of the book is also really satisfying. But I felt like I never fully figured it out, which again is fine if you had a good time throughout.
This book won't be for everyone, but I enjoyed it. If you're looking for a challenge and are fascinated with myth and/or esotericism, give it a chance.
Also, I don't know if the author is the same guy that's cranked out like 200 shitty recipe books or not, but it would weirdly makes sense if it is and it's a very funny coincidence if not. Like, the guy who's job it is to write recipe books for some faceless company probably writes shit like this in his free time.
May 19, 2026
Genuinely one of the best books I have -ever- read. “I found myself both repulsed and allured”
What a way with words! David Kane’s Drippy Trippy Doom sits unapologetically amongst House of Leaves, The Wasp Factory and the works of HP Lovecraft. Embracing sci-fi, fantasy, punk-rock psychedelic cosmic-horror vibes, this forbidden book makes a narcotised nighttime wander through Innsmouth seem explicitly tame.
“Quite predictably, I’ve gone insane”
A most unsettling trip, well worth giving up your sanity for.
My favourite entries were:
Delicious lysergic doom
She came from planet Claire
Call me face stabber
Gotta light
What a way with words! David Kane’s Drippy Trippy Doom sits unapologetically amongst House of Leaves, The Wasp Factory and the works of HP Lovecraft. Embracing sci-fi, fantasy, punk-rock psychedelic cosmic-horror vibes, this forbidden book makes a narcotised nighttime wander through Innsmouth seem explicitly tame.
“Quite predictably, I’ve gone insane”
A most unsettling trip, well worth giving up your sanity for.
My favourite entries were:
Delicious lysergic doom
She came from planet Claire
Call me face stabber
Gotta light
May 10, 2026
An absolutely delightful bit of psychedelic madness! Really readable and fun too, the pages just flew by, which isn’t always the case with this kind of reality-bending fiction (as much as I love it!). Some of these stories are definitely going to haunt my dreams, they're all just so dense with bizarre ideas and marvelous imagery. The most (third-eye) opening book I’ve read in ages...
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