The Dizzies
Stories behind the stories of AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS — writings from the Parkhives — & more.
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THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS (9/29/26) (opens the original)
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In just two weeks, my fifth book, The Repairer of Reputations, will be out, just in time for Halloween. It contains a new story by me, plus the 1895 story from Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow that partly inspired it. I’ve also written a new introduction to Chambers and his legacy. This unique flip-book edition—you can start reading at either end—was designed and illustrated by the great Jeff Wong. It rocks!<a class="im
Epilogue: The Fourth Tense (2020) (opens the original)
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In 2020, after unearthing the sole remaining printout of Three Tenses, I began typing it out into my laptop. Each brief section began with the word “In.” My old style tinged my current mind, and as I set down fresh impressions from the he
Kraft Work: John Crowley RIP (opens the original)
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John Crowley, author of Little, Big and the Aegypt cycle, has died. These two pieces originally appeared in my Astral Weeks column for the Los Angeles Times, on Oct. 7 and Nov. 4, 2007, under the headlines “A Word-Magus Gets His Due” and “Go Down, Crowley: The End of ‘Aegypt.’” ¶ I spent a lot of time with his books for these two pieces, which look disconcertingly slim (now that I’ve copy-pasted them). I’m not sure I quite captured their spirit, though there are some good lines. I never did read
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