Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: Science Fiction

  • 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…

  • ENTER, ZYGONAUT

    ENTER, ZYGONAUT

    Words by David Kane • Images by Ashley Ferrum

  • I COME FROM VENUS

    I COME FROM VENUS

    Fall 2026 • Images by Jorge Peña • Words by David Kane In a desert ghost town, a hopeless young doompunk discovers a relic that triggers a mystical transformation, melding two minds across space & time. Modern day oppression clashes with a psychotronic future in the eternal battle against interplanetary tyranny. Asynchronous violence rockets our…

  • Proboscing Planetoid Sassafras

    Imogen Binnie famously wrote “while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars.” Meanwhile, Stephanie Klein seeks to deconstruct the rules of traffic, remap the street, and indeed disintegrate the mind that allegedly constructs this analogy. To do this, the author aims…

  • Minds Mirrored Most Monstrous

    I discovered War with the Newts (1936), written by Czech national Karel Čapek, in a college class for Dystopian Literature. Shamefully, I skimmed it because I was busy being 22 and horny. Now, at 33 and horny, I found a copy in a used bookstore and decided to try again. Reader, I’m happy to report I loved…

  • Literary Horror & Surrealist Trash

    Literary Horror & Surrealist Trash

    If you would like to explore this author before reading my sycophantic drivel, you can dive into their professional website: horrorsong.com I appreciated the well-researched piece in Neo-Passéism’s Substack about the legacy of Weird Fiction, written by Colby Smith // YUUGENPRAXIS. It juxtaposes well with this essay in Strange Horizons by Zach Gillan, who has spilled much ink over the Weird’s journey into…

  • DUNWICH

    DUNWICH

    Birthing later this year… the graphic mutation of a tale by HP Lovecraft. Words by David Kane. Images by Jorge Peña. Keep a sharp eye on the sky for the winged ones…

  • Tulpa-Punk

    I collect parafictional paraphernalia. You know what I’m talking about: fake things within real things. Hoaxes you can hold in your hand. Nesting doll tales. I boast the complete works of Sutter Cane on my shelf, including the book with actual words between the covers, for which I sacrificed my sanity in a review here. Sutter…

  • Words Grow Weird in Alphabet Gardens

    “…when the great Demiurge, Faro Lord of Waters and the Word, was setting the world in order, he made women fertile with tomatoes and in return women continue from time to time to make offerings of this vegetable to the god.” ~ Dictionary of Symbols Blue sky over a green field with short grass. The…

  • Word Begets Image

    [Originally published on I Have That On Vinyl] “Word Begets Image, and Image Is Virus.” I first heard those words on a CD called The Elvis of Letters, which I snatched for ten bucks from the old Amoeba Music on Sunset. I had made a habit of buying cheap discs in the hopes of jolting myself…