Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: Book

  • Deep Fried Blue Collar Cosmic Horror

    Originally published in The Substack Review on April 17, 2026. I’ll forever associate Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (1959) with the laundromat. I read it between cycles, entranced by the boundless varieties of religious experience that human history had to offer, all while lodged in the mundanely pleasant present moment of the spinning machine…

  • Book Review: Sutter Cane’s In The Mouth Of Madness

    [Originally published on Psychopomp.com] The mind behind reality is insane. That’s the seed from which sprouts the fleshy jungle of Sutter Cane’s masterwork, In The Mouth of Madness, the culmination of his horror career. Is the mind behind reality your own consciousness, that hermit sea trapped behind the rocky shore of your skull? Or is this…