Devlin’s Account of The Long Night Nov. 1st 1894 So it begins. The Game is underway, the seeds are sown, the dice are cast. And, despite some rotten looking bruises around the face and head, I’ll hazard that I’m winning already. Crowe can stuff it in his pipe. He told Continue Reading
Literature
‘The Ever-undiscovered Country over the hill’ : The Temporality and the Geometry of Adventure
‘A proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art’; Robert Louis Stevenson adopts this provocative position in his 1884 essay, ‘A Humble Remonstrance’,[1] written as a rejoinder to Henry James’s ‘The Art of Fiction’,[2] which had appeared a few months earlier, also in Longman’s Continue Reading
STOP THE CAVALRY [MICK, DECEMBER 2009]
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A shaft of light across the bed in the dark before dawn, and she’d come back in, fully dressed, and nestled down beside him to say goodbye. He turned away, groaning, and her small body curled against his back. Kisses on the nape of his neck and his shoulder. Whispers Continue Reading
Devlin’s Posthumous Letter from Morocco
Editor’s Introduction : We present here a short excerpt from Martin Caulder’s recently discovered pseudonymous work, first published by Olympia Press in 1964 in the “Traveller’s Companion” series of erotica for gentlemen. The original title, The Devil in a Woman’s Form, is believed to have been chosen at the last Continue Reading
The Call to Adventure
I was sixteen years old, in highschool in the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Something was happening to me. I would sneak out at night and walk across the university campus across from our house, watch the Moon ripple in the waters of the Upper Lake; in darkened sylvan amphitheatre, Continue Reading
A Haunted Childhood
We come to this path in many ways. An animal trail in a forest, a gleam of light scattering on the ocean, a narrow alley off a city street, piled with refuse of the modern world; a vague terrain in the same-old suburbs, cleared for development, overgrown with weeds. This Continue Reading
Leabhar Draiocht – The Grimoire
PARIS 11 July 1972 In the beginning was the WORD … That’s all there is to know about magic, all there is to know about most things really. On the very off-chance that anyone else ever reads this book, this book of magic and strange experiments, writings, dreams and diagrams, Continue Reading