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Darklore Volume 2
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276 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2008
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January 3, 2019
Great articles. Fun Fortean reads.
December 24, 2012
Another entertaining, wildly eclectic DARKLORE volume. I suppose I should say up front that I don't read this series because I necessarily believe what the contributors claim (nor do I necessarily disbelieve!); rather, I'm looking for the kind of imaginative pleasure I get out of reading good weird fiction.
In this batch, I particularly enjoyed Theo Paijman's essay, "The Dark Cohorts". Paijman's never fails to deliver striking ideas and images, and I wish he were more prolific. Here he excels with a vision evoked by his reading of Charles Fort: ". . . one sometimes is overcome by the sudden visions of unbelievable vistas and fathomless, black abysses where giant, incomprehensible artifacts slowly and blindly grind away aeon after aeon, or manifest themselves briefly and shatteringly. . . " That's better than anything Fort himself ever wrote. I'm also intrigued by his notion that Fort produced his writings while in a state of trance: that would certainly explain his incoherent ideas and atrocious prose style.
Number two for me is Blair MacKenzie Blake's "DMT and Magic". How can one not like an essay with gives us a secret ancient Egyptian cult which practiced necrophagy as a means of gaining enlightenment?
I am less taken with the authors who are inclined toward mechanistic or prosaic explanations of the uncanny: 'The Emperor' could surely come up with a livelier explanation for his preternatural fogs than seismic activity and extraterrestrial probes, while Mike Jay is a real killjoy, even if his exposure of the roots of our Illuminati fixation is a useful and interesting bit of historiography. There aren't any real duds here.
In this batch, I particularly enjoyed Theo Paijman's essay, "The Dark Cohorts". Paijman's never fails to deliver striking ideas and images, and I wish he were more prolific. Here he excels with a vision evoked by his reading of Charles Fort: ". . . one sometimes is overcome by the sudden visions of unbelievable vistas and fathomless, black abysses where giant, incomprehensible artifacts slowly and blindly grind away aeon after aeon, or manifest themselves briefly and shatteringly. . . " That's better than anything Fort himself ever wrote. I'm also intrigued by his notion that Fort produced his writings while in a state of trance: that would certainly explain his incoherent ideas and atrocious prose style.
Number two for me is Blair MacKenzie Blake's "DMT and Magic". How can one not like an essay with gives us a secret ancient Egyptian cult which practiced necrophagy as a means of gaining enlightenment?
I am less taken with the authors who are inclined toward mechanistic or prosaic explanations of the uncanny: 'The Emperor' could surely come up with a livelier explanation for his preternatural fogs than seismic activity and extraterrestrial probes, while Mike Jay is a real killjoy, even if his exposure of the roots of our Illuminati fixation is a useful and interesting bit of historiography. There aren't any real duds here.
February 15, 2013
Read Occult Rock chapter only.
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