Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: Eldritch

  • 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…

  • Delicious Lysergic Doom

    Title tale of the book, DRIPPY TRIPPY DOOM. We arrived at the church late into the night. Peering up, I appraised the wooden structure. Abandoned years ago when apocalyptic Lutherans were driven out of the basin by the Tongva, it had fallen into disrepair. A century of high desert winds had gifted the teetering steeple…

  • Call Me Face Stabber

    a strange tale with original art by Jorge Peña

  • Parasitic Obelysk

    Emergent from mist, megalith comes into hue. Like a coral column stretching impossibly high in to the planet’s thermosphere,  the monster dominates the view. Discerning shapes fluttering a long its exterior, I close in un til the monumen tum makes clearer: Monumen tal structure subsumes all vision, still miles a way. Spot no top. Light gray porous…

  • Beauty of Horror: Beyond the Black Rainbow II.

    [Check out Part I. — Picking up from 47:09] David Kane: I just wanna say that I love the opening of this movie, because I love dystopian propaganda as an aesthetic. Shockaholic: (laughs) It’s very good. DK: It’s the perfect paradox of, “You should feel fine,” and as a viewer, you’re like, “I’m gonna go…

  • Beauty of Horror: Beyond The Black Rainbow I.

    In 2020, Chandler Bullock a.k.a. Shockaholic was kind enough to host me on their podcast Beauty Of Horror. Our topic was Panos Cosmatos’ masterful film debut. You can listen here and follow along with this transcript of our conversation (I edited out some of my copious stammering): ANNOUNCER: This is the Anatomy of a Scream…

  • The Strange Tale of Saint Toad’s

    ¡¡¡ FULL FILM HERE !!! Check out Too Lemon for more of their wonderful work. Discover herein a full transcript of the Strange Tale for any seekers hungry for a full elucidation of its contents. A special thanks to the Bendigan family for their cooperation in the preservation of this medical mystery. Condolences to the…

  • I Call Them The Orgentry

    They come from  the primordial depths of cytoplasmic seas: Paracystic spores devour our hosts’ cell, Pataphysical flora deflowers our souls in odious fluoride, Pharmakonical megafauna lumbers invisibly overhead and under hill. If you are the blood, they quell the stream. Screaming from darkest corners of nowhere to become something, they will have their fill and…