“All it takes is a reader to create a refinement of the spell. What I am compelled to write, I write. If someone is compelled – or perhaps just curiously attracted – to read whatever has been written, a process of refinement has begun.” Chapter One of our novel “The Exquisite Corpse” is now available for the $10 and up patrons. A new chapter is posted every two weeks… Come join the fun! www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl

“No Longer Longer” (Highbrow Lowlife HILO-003) – Rare and previously unreleased tracks from White Stains and Cotton Ferox founder Carl Abrahamsson. Electronic, emotional, embracing, energising, enveloping, enthusiastic sounds and musical structures from the early 1990s Scandinavian dark ambient scene. Listen to this album HERE!

The much sought-after fourth issue of The Fenris Wolf has now become an ebook. Although it’s honouring that this great book fetches really high prices on the second hand market, I prefer that people can have access to the material if they just want to read it and not necessarily be (like me) bibliophile shelf junkies! GET THE FENRIS WOLF 4 HERE The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focussed on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study.  This issue contains material by/on Z’EV, Ramsey Dukes, Robert Taylor, Hiram Corso, Jean-Pierre Turmel, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Baba Rampuri, Aki Cederberg, Thomas Karlsson, Kendell Geers, John Duncan, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Payam Nabarz, Tim O’Neill, Philip Farber, Terence McKenna, David Beth, Peter Grey, Peter Gilmore, Kenneth Anger, Carl Abrahamsson, Ernst Jünger and LSD, the Dreamachine, the Process Church of the Final Judgement, Thelema...

I recently succumbed to one of those Facebook peer pressure things, and listed ten of my favourite books for ten consecutive days. You might enjoy them too, if you haven’t already come across them. No real order of preference here, just ten highly recommended books/authors. 1. Gore Vidal: “Kalki” – There are many reasons to appreciate Gore Vidal: his ambitious historical novels, his witty essays on (and criticism of) American politics and culture, and the absurdist novels of the late 1960s and 70s. I love them all, but his trippy novels have been more defining of my fiction writing in English than anything (or anyone) else. “Kalki” is especially great, and was a defining influence (a pretty obvious one) in and on my first novel “Mother, Have A Safe Trip.” 2. Ernst Jünger: “On the Marble Cliffs” – There are only a few books that I return to, over and over. Jünger’s literally fantastic tale of independence, morality and sense of humanity during times of authoritarian conflict is one of...