Topic
occult
A collection of 10 issues
A TOP-DOWN PERSPECTIVE
I heard tale, once, of a tribe who lived at the summit of a bottomless mountain. They had been a nomadic people, eons before; they knew this from the thousand and one names of their ancestors they chanted in shared memory, the songs and titles from the centuries of climbing
MANKIND'S HOSTAGE
“Is there anything to actually see in Toledo?” Ohio, that was to say.
“Nothing to write home about. Well, there was one weird thing I’ve never stopped thinking about in one of the Metroparks. Can’t remember which one. There was a hut that looked like a warming house
FOR NO EYES ONLY
DEAD HAND
After a tornado struck Cincinnati in 1974, Sears floor manager Joe Fishbourne attempted to call his ex-wife from a downtown payphone with the excuse of checking whether or not she was okay. When he opened the attached phonebook, however, his attention was diverted to the unusual name “Philistine Causeway,
THE SECRET OF THE SNAIL
In the art of the classic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, the Nine of Pentacles depicts a noblewoman alone, surrounded by a decadence of grapes. In her left hand is a hooded falcon, as calm and indifferent to the surrounding world as she is. This is the card of Venus in
A DIABOLICAL INSTRUMENT
It emerges from the Pacific Ocean as a direct jut of rock from the planet's hot mantle, tempered in cool seawater, then thrust towards heaven like a crude dagger. The atmosphere has answered its challenge in kind with never-ending antarctic winds, weathering its edge down to mossy
A GOOD LUCK CHARM
She bounded back into the living room, her curls bouncing along the way. “Okay, so. This is one of my personal treasures. I don’t talk about this much, but I think you’ll understand why when you see it.”
She was cradling something swaddled in a blue blanket patterned
WINGS ON WALLS
When wandering through American cities, one will often find wings painted on walls, fully disconnected from a central body plan, yet anticipating their inevitable presence in photography. They are as diverse in their presentation as any lepidopterist’s collection of pinned specimens, aesthetically adapted to the character and conditions of