The Phantasmagorical Imperative and Other Fabrications
The Phantasmagorical
Imperative and Other Fabrications is D. P. Watt’s wonder cabinet of
obsessive, carefully written supernatural stories told by a breed of
bachelor narrators who are a cross between M.R. James’s buttoned-down
antiquarians and H. P. Lovecraft’s high-strung, slightly hysterical
misfits — with a dash of E.T.A. Hoffmann and Bruno Schulz thrown in. The
collective fate of these characters is to bend matter or be bent by it
into strange new dimensional realities...
- Victoria Nelson
The book collects two novellas and eight short stories (two of which have never appeared previously in print), as well as specially written forewords and afterwords, by Victoria Nelson and Eugene Thacker respectively. The full table of contents is as follows:
Foreword by Victoria Nelson
The Phantasmagorical Imperative
Laudate Dominum (for many voices)
By Nature’s Power Enshrined
Holzwege
Dehiscence
The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller
...he was water before he was fire...
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Vertep
A Harvest of Abandon
Afterword ‘As If’ by Eugene Thacker
The book is a lithographically printed, 224 page sewn hardback with colour endpapers, limited to 250 copies.
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D. P. Watt
D. P. Watt is a writer living in the bowels of England. He balances his time between lecturing in drama and devising new ‘creative recipes’, ‘illegal’ and ‘heretical’ methods to resurrect a world of awful literary wonder. His short stories have appeared with Side Real Press, Megazanthus Press, Hieroglyphic Press and his two novellas, The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller and Dehiscence are available from Ex Occidente Press.
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