I am interviewed by author and publisher Alcebiades Diniz Miguel on the Bibliophage website on the origins of Amerika and Europa. To accompany the interview, he has also created a film with beautiful graphics and with an audio excerpt of our conversation. The interview and the film can be read and seen here at Bibliophage.
Alcebiades Diniz Miguel is the author of the magnificent collection Lanterns Of The Old Night. His fiction has recently appeared in All IS FULL OF HELL a panegyric to William Blake. His imprint Raphus Press, has just published three beautiful chapbooks: Monsters, Black Mirror and The Origins. They will look like this on your living room table as pictured on the bottom tier below, and can be purchased here.
And Des Lewis has completed his wonderful real time review of Europa.
Image by Des Lewis
I was tempted to pull some of his remarkable and eloquent and surprising passages and insights from his reading, but this is one journey into Europa that really has to be experienced in its entirety. You can embark on that journey here.
Death of Simon Magus by Denis Forkas Kostromitin and Appassionata by Jiri Anderle
Europa
by Karim Ghahwagi
Art by Denis Kostromitin Forkas and Jiri Anderle
Mount Abraxas, August 2017
Deluxe cloth boards, illustrated end papers, color frontispiece page,
3 color text inside, extra thick dust jacket, silver silk ribbon, 14 inches x 6 inches, Limited to 93 hand numbered copies and 8 copies with an alternative cover.
Ever since Amerika has disappeared, the Supreme Chancellor of Europa and his military apparatus have been on high alert. Caustic with fear and paranoia that they could be next, the Supreme Chancellor’s Purple Guard and the D.S.V. now rule the walled- in jigsaw of nation states with an iron fist- and the occasional motivational slogan. Dogs and baboons in military uniforms routinely march on the streets, rockets are tested fired into the Atlantic in the direction of the disappeared continent, huge air balloons release hourly precipitations of info confetti upon the hoi-polloi as special treats, service announcements and surveillance alerts blare out of static filled speakers on every street corner, sprawling Mar-a-Lago detention centers are strained by the large influx of newly arrived American refugees.
But the fires of revolution are starting to stir in the ancient forges of Europa. Now rumors are circulating that the steady stream of American refugees have been infiltrated by infernal forces. All six thousand paintings of the Supreme at the National Portrait Gallery have vanished overnight. Postal services are in flux. Carousels are all turning in the wrong direction. The Roshlon mannequin of the Great Dictator Himself at the Albion Waxworks seems to have been reassigned to the Fifth Dimension. Chimneys over London release huge clouds of blackened smoke in fearful symmetries. Suddenly Travel Writers, Epic Poets and the occasional Pamphleteer are subject to increased scrutiny and suspicion… Meanwhile the Eternal Detective, long dormant in a strange, fugue-like space, has begun to stir…
Europa is a short novel available as a part of a wonderful trilogy set published in the same format consisting of the novella Abyssinia by Damian Murphy, and a collection of 4 novelettes: The Ruins of Eden and Other Witcheries by Harold Billings.
It is a great honor and pleasure to announce the release of four new books from Mount Abraxas out in August. The books come with full page illustrations, and with 3 colour text within. Format: 14 inches x 6 inches. Illustrated endpapers, full colour frontispiece page.
Abyssinia
Author: Damian Murphy Art by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. An original long novella.
Europa
Author: Karim Ghahwagi Art by Denis Forkas. An original long novella / short novel.
The Ruins of Eden and Other Witcheries
Author: Harold Billings Art by Luciana Nedelea. A collection of four bleak stories of the occult and the weird folk.
Deeper Flowers Thrive
Author: Oliver Smith Art by Luciana Nedelea. A collection of four occult sea stories.
Author, editor and publisher D.F. Lewis has done a wonderful reading of all the stories in ALL IS FULL OF HELL here.
And you can find a link to all his Real-Time Reviews for 2017 here, a veritable living, breathing map of the fantastic fiction that is emerging into the world in these troubled times. Venture deeper, and you will find more than a decade of reviews and ruminations, all writ in an erudite, enjoyable, idiosyncratic style; a treasure that I suspect will become, (and already is), one of the most important and essential chronicles of fantastic literature of the past two decades.
Trefoil is the Grail of Perdition by Sebastian Montesi, The Kings of Cobweb and Dandelion by Colin Insole, Feast of Fire by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, Ghost of a Flea by Rhys Hughes, Shadow of Horror risen in Eternity by Stephan Friedman, Great, Pale World by D.P. Watt, Horrox by Andrew Condous, The Secret Wound in Life by Joseph Dawson, Torso in the Shadow by Adam S. Cantwell, Burnt the Fire of Thine Eyes by Oliver Smith, King Mob by Philip Fracassi, La Fleur Infernale by Leopold Nacht, I Want! I Want! by Henry Jovial, Christian Singles by Thomas Phillips, Wollstonecraft by Karim Ghahwagi, The Golden Mile by John Howard, Nocturnal Gardens by Ramon Lasalle,The Living Rapture by Jonathan Wood, Synarchy of Molten Bones by Deathspell Omega.
Let us begin, In whisperd hymns and mumbling prayers.
Is Nicodemus still in vigil weeping?
Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel! For Albion is rotten to the core. Blow Your Trumpet Zachariel! For Jerusalem has fallen. Blow Your Trumpet Michael! For We are All Sick with Love. Blow Your Trumpet Raphael! For there are Vipers in Our Dreams. Blow Your Trumpet Selaphiel! For All is Full of Hell.
Table of Contents
Trefoil is the Grail of Perdition by Sebastian Montesi
The Kings of Cobweb and Dandelion by Colin Insole Feast of Fire by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel Ghost of a Flea by Rhys Hughes
Shadow of Horror risen in Eternity by Stephan Friedman Great, Pale World by D.P. Watt
Horrox by Andrew Condous The Secret Wound in Life by Joseph Dawson Torso in the Shadow by Adam S. Cantwell Burnt the Fire of Thine Eyes by Oliver Smith King Mob by Philip Fracassi La Fleur Infernale by Leopold Nacht I Want! I Want! by Henry Jovial Christian Singles by Thomas Phillips Wollstonecraft by Karim Ghahwagi The Golden Mile by John Howard
Nocturnal Gardens by Ramon Lasalle The Living Rapture by Jonathan Wood Synarchy of Molten Bones by Deathspell Omega
