Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: Weird Tales

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…