Love your insights into the connection between childhood and analog horror; a moment that's stuck with me forever is the bit in your Kid Eternity where Jerry comes across his lost teddy bear in hell. Some recent works that I'd absolutely recommend in this vein is the 2022 film Skinamarink, and the animated web series the Amazing Digital Circus which just wrapped up with its finale in theaters (this one is less horror and more in the vein of the new trans cinema like I Saw the TV Glow and The People's Joker)
I am not at this time writing about Providence. Every time I try to write about Providence, I end up with at least 10,000 words of structurally clever analysis that has my various editors go "But can you pare it down to a reasonable length?" It is an extremely dense book that I know I'm going to write about as a book one day, if for no other reason that it's one of two I owe my god, Arachne. (The other one is the project I'm currently working on and will hopefully have a first draft done by the end of 2027. It's about early 2000s media criticism and the rise of fascism.)
The various Alan Wake/Control games are very much in the weird fiction tradition that Lovecraft likewise arose from. Though their influences are more pagan in nature, especially given the Finnish nature of the studio creating them. Alan Wake II has the engagement with aging within a so-called legacy sequel that actually engages with the decay of the human body that only Twin Peaks: The Return has managed. (Whereas other legacy sequels skip past this aspect in favor of playing the hits.) Also, the musical numbers are a delight.
I'm glad the second Long London book appears to be better than the first. When I read it, I got the sense that it was written more for a YA/mass market audience than some of Moore's other, more recent books. Might check it out when the series as a whole is done. Also, Black Flame: highly recommended.
Besides Arden, what mystical figures are worth looking out for in the modern generation?
My eldest son is about to head off to University, pursuing Veterinary Medicine, based in large part on some difficult foster kitten losses. Bast is gaining a powerful new ally!
(Foster kittens and puppies have long been a big part of my life, though not intending stolen valor, the kids and their moms are the driving force, I am a press-ganged but heartfelt participant!)
Oddly enough, my daughter has been on a Disney cat movie kick, we've watched "The Cat From Outer Space" and "That Darn Cat" recently, I told her about "The Three Lives of Thomasina" and she's all in.
Super klesha nirodhi! Luthor's fleeting glimpse of enlightenment in All-Star Superman is such a great indication of Superman's inner life and POV.
Superman as a bodhisattva performing great feats of emotional intelligence is a very invigorating idea! I figure by the time I get around to my Superman story he'll be in the public domain O:‑)
I've been listening to the Jerusalem audio book as I work, everything moving towards one great goal :)))
Without really thinking too much about it, I made the Loch Ness Monster the mascot of both Maybe Day & Night. Nessie seems an especially durable Scottish egregore, and then there's the Crowley/Boleskine House connection, with accompanying apophenia of AC having summoned the monster into existence.
I hate to point out the obvious, but you kinda seem like the ideal person to ask about this, with the understanding that your relative proximity may give you less of an affinity rather than more!
Love your insights into the connection between childhood and analog horror; a moment that's stuck with me forever is the bit in your Kid Eternity where Jerry comes across his lost teddy bear in hell. Some recent works that I'd absolutely recommend in this vein is the 2022 film Skinamarink, and the animated web series the Amazing Digital Circus which just wrapped up with its finale in theaters (this one is less horror and more in the vein of the new trans cinema like I Saw the TV Glow and The People's Joker)
I am not at this time writing about Providence. Every time I try to write about Providence, I end up with at least 10,000 words of structurally clever analysis that has my various editors go "But can you pare it down to a reasonable length?" It is an extremely dense book that I know I'm going to write about as a book one day, if for no other reason that it's one of two I owe my god, Arachne. (The other one is the project I'm currently working on and will hopefully have a first draft done by the end of 2027. It's about early 2000s media criticism and the rise of fascism.)
The various Alan Wake/Control games are very much in the weird fiction tradition that Lovecraft likewise arose from. Though their influences are more pagan in nature, especially given the Finnish nature of the studio creating them. Alan Wake II has the engagement with aging within a so-called legacy sequel that actually engages with the decay of the human body that only Twin Peaks: The Return has managed. (Whereas other legacy sequels skip past this aspect in favor of playing the hits.) Also, the musical numbers are a delight.
I'm glad the second Long London book appears to be better than the first. When I read it, I got the sense that it was written more for a YA/mass market audience than some of Moore's other, more recent books. Might check it out when the series as a whole is done. Also, Black Flame: highly recommended.
Besides Arden, what mystical figures are worth looking out for in the modern generation?
Dove sta memoria, little Ruby <3<3<3
My eldest son is about to head off to University, pursuing Veterinary Medicine, based in large part on some difficult foster kitten losses. Bast is gaining a powerful new ally!
(Foster kittens and puppies have long been a big part of my life, though not intending stolen valor, the kids and their moms are the driving force, I am a press-ganged but heartfelt participant!)
Oddly enough, my daughter has been on a Disney cat movie kick, we've watched "The Cat From Outer Space" and "That Darn Cat" recently, I told her about "The Three Lives of Thomasina" and she's all in.
Super klesha nirodhi! Luthor's fleeting glimpse of enlightenment in All-Star Superman is such a great indication of Superman's inner life and POV.
Superman as a bodhisattva performing great feats of emotional intelligence is a very invigorating idea! I figure by the time I get around to my Superman story he'll be in the public domain O:‑)
I've been listening to the Jerusalem audio book as I work, everything moving towards one great goal :)))
Maybe Days are here again!
https://bobby-campbell.ghost.io/maybe-days-are-here-again/
Without really thinking too much about it, I made the Loch Ness Monster the mascot of both Maybe Day & Night. Nessie seems an especially durable Scottish egregore, and then there's the Crowley/Boleskine House connection, with accompanying apophenia of AC having summoned the monster into existence.
I hate to point out the obvious, but you kinda seem like the ideal person to ask about this, with the understanding that your relative proximity may give you less of an affinity rather than more!