Minor writer. https://adamscantwell.blogspot.com/ “A Forest with its Mouth Open Wide” still in print, hardcover weird fiction collection (search ebay) Previously Egaeus Press, Mount Abraxas, Raphus Press, Fiddleblack
Book I read this year: THE ASTRAL WORLD, swami panchadasi. Seems to be an early 20th c American production, purporting some basis in eastern religions, with Christian graftings and seemingly made up stuff to top it off. OK read. Possible influence on Gygax et al, with its planar model of the astral
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Book I read this year: THE ASTRAL WORLD, swami panchadasi. Seems to be an early 20th c American production, purporting some basis in eastern religions, with Christian graftings and seemingly made up stuff to top it off. OK read. Possible influence on Gygax et al, with its planar model of the astral
Adam Golaski, Stone Gods, NO Press, 2024. Unmissable for appreciators of independent literary weird fiction. Terrifying ambiguities lurk behind the terrifying ambiguities of the recognizable world. Not many of his peers ground their horrors in the current, shared, haunted world the way Golaski does
July 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Adam Golaski, Stone Gods, NO Press, 2024. Unmissable for appreciators of independent literary weird fiction. Terrifying ambiguities lurk behind the terrifying ambiguities of the recognizable world. Not many of his peers ground their horrors in the current, shared, haunted world the way Golaski does
E Nesbit, The House of Silence. Nesbit was a really effective storyteller and these are very strong ghost stories in a traditional mold. The tales get a bit jokey and tossed-off toward the end. It paled a bit in comparison with the Marjorie Bowen collection that I’d read just previously
July 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
E Nesbit, The House of Silence. Nesbit was a really effective storyteller and these are very strong ghost stories in a traditional mold. The tales get a bit jokey and tossed-off toward the end. It paled a bit in comparison with the Marjorie Bowen collection that I’d read just previously
“The Bishop of Hell” by Marjorie Bowen, terrifying book, good to find for myself why her work is considered classic. They were more visceral than I expected, the title story especially having a sense of unhinged escalation that’s a component of many of my favorite weird tales
June 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“The Bishop of Hell” by Marjorie Bowen, terrifying book, good to find for myself why her work is considered classic. They were more visceral than I expected, the title story especially having a sense of unhinged escalation that’s a component of many of my favorite weird tales