Twisted Treatises

Confessions from the Think Tank The book, brought to you by Dark Moon Rising Publications, is an anthology of psychedelic, dystopian sci-fi horror. 23 pieces from 18 authors. Each of these tales could be its own episode of…I want to say The Twilight Zone, but these are a lot more brutal than anything producers could show on television back then. Some of the stories are actual confessions, others of them could be, as if what you’re reading would later become one of those confessions, something you’d hear over booze if you knew someone who worked for a government-funded scientific agency. What’s a think tank? I explain that in the introduction at some length, but in a nut (which we all love) a think tank is, classically, a place where Big Thinkers chosen by the Powers That Be go to decide how to shuffle you all into demographics, after which they can much more easily advertise goods (and life choices) to you—the algorithm was conceptualized in a think tank. The first tank was made to c...

You’ve seen memes that portray what it looks like. The half-dead stick figure surrounded by his drugs and books, seeming to rot on the floor in some sort of useless self-torture, clearly in the first stages of the alchemical magnum opus (that cracks me up, the drama of it, but it’s like that), the Blackening, the decomposition of Prime Matter…now, let me tell you what that all means. I’m giving away a tiny piece of my occult book for free right now. Title? You don’t get to know that. Not yet. It’s too bloody good. The Blackening is the Decomposition of Prime Matter. The Prime Matter is whatever karma you’ve accrued previous to beginning this process. That makes it sounds like there’s special shit you have to do, but there isn’t…not unless you consider tearing your life into pieces to be special somehow. That is, however, the reason why someone like me would bother with this process. The Prime Matter—the First Material—that’s you when you begin the process. Everything shitty you ev...