An Inhabitant Of Carcosa wants to read A cook's tour by Anthony Bourdain
For the Kissinger quote.
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An Inhabitant Of Carcosa wants to read Origins of the Kabbalah by Gershon Scholem
Found in a used book store in western North Carolina. Been sitting in the occult books pile for a while.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa wants to read Nihil Unbound by Ray Brassier
Nihilism is not an affliction to be overcome, but a vector of intellectual discovery which …
Cited in the "Extinction" chapter of Revolutionary Demonology.
Cited in the "Extinction" chapter of Revolutionary Demonology.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa wants to read Major trends in Jewish mysticism by Gershon Scholem (The Stroock lectures -- 1938)
I have "Origins of the Kabbalah" siting in my to-read pile, might as well add this one.
I have "Origins of the Kabbalah" siting in my to-read pile, might as well add this one.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa started reading Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo di Gruppo di Nun
The friend that suggested this finished it in one day, and I can't see how.
The friend that suggested this finished it in one day, and I can't see how.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa started reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis …
This is my annual classic Gothic for this October.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa commented on Revolutionary Demonology by Gruppo di Gruppo di Nun
About a third of the way into this now. A collection of L/Acc essays that mostly have less to do with magick than I had been hoping.
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa wants to read The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
"Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about …
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa rated The King in Yellow: 5 stars
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by …
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by the American writer Robert …
This book changed my life, possibly not for the better.
In the autumn of 1998, I found myself walking the oak-lined streets of an old city, on a sultry subtropical night. I looked up through the narrow alley between the branches, and saw the rubicund light of Aldebaran gleaming at me. I was at a dead-end in my studies, and knew it, and had no better plans. At the moment the star's light fell on me, I felt a change; my frustration with my life slipped away, replaced by a bittersweet longing for another life I had known only in my dreams. It was soon after that I came into possession of a small press's library-bound edition of The King In Yellow. I had heard it mentioned, of course, in Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature", but in those days, the book was not widely reprinted, nor well-known outside of the small weird fiction community.
Oh, the poisonous beauty …
In the autumn of 1998, I found myself walking the oak-lined streets of an old city, on a sultry subtropical night. I looked up through the narrow alley between the branches, and saw the rubicund light of Aldebaran gleaming at me. I was at a dead-end in my studies, and knew it, and had no better plans. At the moment the star's light fell on me, I felt a change; my frustration with my life slipped away, replaced by a bittersweet longing for another life I had known only in my dreams. It was soon after that I came into possession of a small press's library-bound edition of The King In Yellow. I had heard it mentioned, of course, in Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature", but in those days, the book was not widely reprinted, nor well-known outside of the small weird fiction community.
Oh, the poisonous beauty of it! The hints that lead you on to a precipice over the cloud-waves of Hali, and leave you there, unsatisfied and precarious!
I'll not spoil the experience for you, except to note that the Paris art student stories of the second half of the book, so often thought to be out of place in this collection, actually have subtle ties to the better-known horror stories.