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New Books, Tentacled and Otherwise
Feb. 6th, 2020 05:43 pmIt's new book month, or something like it, and I have several titles to mention...
First of all, I'm pleased to announce that The Nyogtha Variations, the sequel to The Shoggoth Concerto, is now available in print and e-book formats. We're back in the fictive universe of The Weird of Hali, and also back to the adventures of Brecken Kendall and the shoggoth she's nicknamed Sho, the protagonists of The Shoggoth Concerto. The Radiance, the Fellowship of the Yellow Sign, and Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be, are all involved -- and so is that infamous play by J.-B. Castaigne, The King in Yellow. Interested? You can get copies here. (Shoggoth fanciers should stay tuned; there'll be another book announcement in a month or so.)
In less rugose fields of literary endeavor -- well, slightly less rugose -- I'm delighted to report that Josephin Peladan's manual of magical self-shaping, How To Become A Mage, is finally available in a good English translation, with an intro by yours truly. (It's actually been out for a little while but there was a communications slip-up and I wasn't informed.) Peladan was the man who out-Gothed today's Goths more than a century in advance -- the man who made magic fashionable in the French avant-garde at the turn of the last century, a brilliant, opinionated, charismatic, and outrageous figure, and this is his magnum opus, a guide to the reinvention of the self. Trust me, you will want to throw this book across the room at least once -- but you'll also learn a thing or two about being an authentic individual and not just a clone of whatever tacky image your culture wants to force onto you. If you're willing to be simultaneously offended and enlightened, you can get a copy here.
Finally, I think most of my readers are familiar with longtime reader and frequent commenter Violet Cabra. She's recently completed and self-published a useful little 80-page booklet on spiritual cleaning and protection, helpfully titled Spiritual Cleaning and Protection, which does a very good job of covering the basic methods of keeping yourself free of noxious spiritual and magical energies. Since questions about that make up a reliable percentage of the posts to my weekly Magic Monday sessions here on Dreamwidth, and since today's industrial societies can be quite reasonably be described as steaming cesspits of psychic filth, a straightforward guide like this is worth having to hand. If you'd like one, it can be purchased online here.
First of all, I'm pleased to announce that The Nyogtha Variations, the sequel to The Shoggoth Concerto, is now available in print and e-book formats. We're back in the fictive universe of The Weird of Hali, and also back to the adventures of Brecken Kendall and the shoggoth she's nicknamed Sho, the protagonists of The Shoggoth Concerto. The Radiance, the Fellowship of the Yellow Sign, and Nyogtha, The Thing That Should Not Be, are all involved -- and so is that infamous play by J.-B. Castaigne, The King in Yellow. Interested? You can get copies here. (Shoggoth fanciers should stay tuned; there'll be another book announcement in a month or so.) In less rugose fields of literary endeavor -- well, slightly less rugose -- I'm delighted to report that Josephin Peladan's manual of magical self-shaping, How To Become A Mage, is finally available in a good English translation, with an intro by yours truly. (It's actually been out for a little while but there was a communications slip-up and I wasn't informed.) Peladan was the man who out-Gothed today's Goths more than a century in advance -- the man who made magic fashionable in the French avant-garde at the turn of the last century, a brilliant, opinionated, charismatic, and outrageous figure, and this is his magnum opus, a guide to the reinvention of the self. Trust me, you will want to throw this book across the room at least once -- but you'll also learn a thing or two about being an authentic individual and not just a clone of whatever tacky image your culture wants to force onto you. If you're willing to be simultaneously offended and enlightened, you can get a copy here. Finally, I think most of my readers are familiar with longtime reader and frequent commenter Violet Cabra. She's recently completed and self-published a useful little 80-page booklet on spiritual cleaning and protection, helpfully titled Spiritual Cleaning and Protection, which does a very good job of covering the basic methods of keeping yourself free of noxious spiritual and magical energies. Since questions about that make up a reliable percentage of the posts to my weekly Magic Monday sessions here on Dreamwidth, and since today's industrial societies can be quite reasonably be described as steaming cesspits of psychic filth, a straightforward guide like this is worth having to hand. If you'd like one, it can be purchased online here. 
