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Civilian
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Autumn 2022 From Raphus Press
Civilian by Karim Ghahwagi // Raphus Press// Autumn 2022
Set a few years in the future, the Behavioral Science department of the FBI are on the threshold of fully implementing a new technology which enables access to the memories and sensations of the human mind.
For almost a decade Simon Wakefield and his team of federal agents have developed and utilized the technology in their most challenging cases. Now they are confronted with their most perplexing case. A renowned child psychotherapist has kidnapped three of her own child trauma patients and hidden them away in an undisclosed location without food and water. She will only reveal their locations on live national television. A few hours before she is to make her grand exposé, she tries to commit suicide in her cell. Dying and unconscious, she has never revealed the secret locations of the three children.
Aberrant pathologies and new technologies collide in this short novel of science fiction and horror.
Limited to 100 hardback copies.
Copies can be preordered at Raphus Press
And via Ziesings in the United States
The Inhuman Ladder
The Inhuman Ladder is now shipping from Amazon and Barnes&Noble in paperback. Available in limited edition hardback from Zagava Books in April.
The Inhuman Ladder / Zagava Books/ 2021/ 321 pages.
Some kind words about the stories:
Children of the Crimson Sun
‘One of the best stories of possession I’ve read since the Exorcist.‘
Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual and The Reddening
‘A compelling tale of amoral purpose.’
Mark Andresen- The Pan Review
Horrill Hill
‘This story-story has a gory rictus at its hyphen. And clairvoyant viscera. Its method of stylistic power only imaginable if you read it.’
D.F. Lewis- The Gestalt Real-Time Review.
‘Will stay with the reader permanently.’
Alcebiades Diniz Miguel.
The Sorrows of Satan’s Book
‘A haunting portrayal….An excellent example of cold, sea-drenched gloom.’
Dejan Ognjanovic – Rue Morgue
‘Hallucinatory ….powerful. An oblique but ultimately impressive story.’
Mark Monday
The Liminal Void
Now Available
The Liminal Void by Karim Ghahwagi
Mount Abraxas Press July 2019
Limited edition deluxe oversized hardcover, clothboards with blind folio, silk ribbon, and printed on thick colored paper in two editions.
From the publisher:
”Western sulphur, cults, atavism, murders, heathan rituals and metaphysical journeys, all collide in the Liminal Void, a new superlative horror / folk horror novella by Karim Ghahwagi.
The ghosts of three martyred women trapped in a single body, are assigned by their collapsing Kratocratic pagan regime, to investigate a crime against humanity, in a distant and secluded village, stationed at the end of time. The regime itself, the women suspect, has instigated the very crime they have been charged to investigate. An occult existential terror novella of the dark fantastic, forensic investigation, ancient pagan ritual, and the end of days.”
Books can be purchased by contacting exoccidente@gmail.com, or other fine booksellers.
Children of the Crimson Sun
Children of the Crimson Sun
An Egaeus Press Keynote Edition
Now available
A diptych of dark, richly wrought, strange tales, exploring faith, identity, and those mysterious currents which inhabit the spaces in between them. At once psychological tales of mounting spiritual horror, and investigations into the dark fantastic.
The title novella, Children of the Crimson Sun, concerns a young medic of the Hospitaller Knights of Malta, charged with investigating an unsettling case in a local fishing village, where spiritual forces both contemporary and ancient saturate the sprawling archipelago’s villages, churches, monasteries, megalithic temples, and deep subterranean caverns.
In the second piece, A Haunting in Miniature, a village in the Moravian region of the Czech Republic is unsettled by a series of ghostly visitations. The supernatural intrusions give rise to suspicions that the region’s history has resurfaced in strange and foreboding circumstances.
The book is a lithographically printed, 192 page pocket sized sewn hardback (105mm x 165mm); limited to just 220 copies. ISBN 978-1-916465725.
Books can be purchased for 21 English pounds / 27 US Dollars / 24 Euro, including worldwide shipping Here
Europa Interview and reading at Bibliophage
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.
Mounting Abraxas
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.
Reservations can be made here with the publisher and with Ziesing Books in the US and with Cold Tonnage Books in the UK.
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