Daughter of Night

 

This is Nemesis Daughter of Nyx (Night) another early work from the CygnusX Archive. The drawing dates from 1966 and is clearly inspired by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) and the large exhibition of his work organised that year by Brian Reade (1913-1989) at the Victoria & Albert Museum. In his catalogue introduction Reade wrote of Beardsley: 'he belongs with the artists of night, not with the artists of day...' . Together with Kenneth Clark (whose article in the Sunday Times Supplement was called 'Out of the Black Lake'), Brian Reade was chiefly responsible for the Beardsley Boom of 1965-1969. This figure of Nemesis, according to one authority, a personifation of 'righteous anger', is a pastiche; it combines an incongruous ancient Egyptian influence with Beardsley's 'Japonesque' manner. To this day Beardsley remains the epitome of aesthetic dandyism; his work exemplifies not only the grotesque nature of Decadence - but also its style and elegance.

'If I am not grotesque, I am nothing' - Aubrey Beardsley

Illustration: Nemesis, 1966

Vespula Dreamng

 Here is a recent work. Perhaps it is an illustration for a very Decadent poem... Do you have a mystic sister?

Illustration: Vespula Dreaming, 2007

This Is Inner Space

...the concept of Tau... the world of inter-atom... 

It was an area of  non-logic which only grudgingly conceded a place to man and his fallibilities.

Caught in a twilight world somewhere between between death and the edge of life, they hung at the very fringes of endurance in a state of mental and physical chaos.  

- Colin Kapp
Lambda 1 New Worlds Science Fiction, December 1962

illus: This Is Inner Space (Lambda 1), 2014

From The Archive

 There are a few pencil sketches from 1966 in the archive. This rough drawing of The Temptation of St Anthony is probably the earliest. No doubt this frenetic, proto-convulsive figure is really a Damned Poet struggling with his or her inner demons - the first example of a continuing theme.

Illustration: The Temptation of St Anthony, 1966

Veronica Lurk

Equivocal high priestess of Neo-Convulsive calligraphic automata, originator of the Enigma Scripts and their associated curiosa, scary femme-fatale Veronica Lurk personifies our erroneous zones – all our innate contradictions, aberrations and incongruities. Diva of Divergence and Digression, she is the very essence of everything gratuitous; everything anomalous and ambiguous; everything anachronistic, fortuitous, ‘off-centre’ and ‘off-the-wall’. Ms Lurk is the reification of singularity – even naked singularity. She is the Princess of Parody and the Patron Saint of Pastiche. As a familiar spirit of deviance and asymmetry, that irregular element always in the background, she embodies the consequences of indeterminacy, encapsulating the absurd in all its mutable, mutating, multifarious improbabilities. Known in Jet City as the Compulsive Beautician, Veronica Lurk is always extraneous – and completely unpredictable!

automatic drawing: Abra Cadavre #30 Veronica Lurk, 1973

 

Bibliography 1972-

 

"A writer/artist who is creating a unique place in the late C20th  counterculture." - Tenth Muse

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Allen, Tim, The Xantras, Terrible Work 3, 1994
Allen, Tim, Dream Vortex, Terrible Work 8, 1998
Allen, Tim, Earth Ascending An Anthology of Living Poetry, Terrible Work 8, 1998
Allen, Tim, Colour of Dust by A C Evans, Terrible Work 9, 1999
Allen, Tim/Kirke, Alexis, Trombone Pamphlets Received, Terrible Work 8 , 1998
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Anonymous, Exosphere, Unknown Source, 1984
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Anonymous, Decaying Orbits, The Lamp Of Thoth 20, 1987
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Anonymous, Artist-Poet A C Evans, Ixion 6 , 1999
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Blackstone, Leonard, Blackstone's Chippings (Space Opera), TOPS 131, 1998
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Bruinsma, Max, Exploding Cinema. Rotterdam Film Course, Sandberg Institute, 1999
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Finch, Peter, Colour of Dust, Buzz Magazine, 1999
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Fra Enotomy, Letters to the Editor [The Nightmare of Rejection], The Lamp of Thoth Vol III No 1, 1984
Friend, Sean Russell, Alien Autopsy, Dark Fantasy Newsletter 6, 1999
Friend, Sean Russell, On The Ubiquitous Steve Sneyd, Dark Fantasy Newsletter 6, 1999
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Grimbleby, David, The Unmagical Art of Salvador Dali, The Lamp Of Thoth 20, 1987
Haines, John F, Colour of Dust A C Evans, Handshake 36, 1999
Haines, John F, Memories of the Future, Handshake 36 , 1999
Haines, John F, Outlaw 2, Handshake 53, 2003
Hamilton, Michael, A Ship To Nowhere, Touchpaper 8, 1998
Hanson, Matt/ Walter, Shane R J, onedotzero3 , Film Four/ICA, 1999
Haynes, Lara, Decaying Orbits, Not Dead But Dreaming Vol XII, 2000
Healy, Randolph, Burning Man An Iconic Narrative, New Hope International Review, 1999
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Henderson, Neil K, Letters to the Editor [Watch This Space], The Supplement 56, 2011
Hooper, Emma, An Interview With RML… [Trajectories/Worlds Known and Not], 10th Muse 7, 1996
Jebb, Keith, A C Evans Space Opera/A C Evans Dream Vortex, PQR (Poetry Quarterly Review), 1998
Jope, Norman, A C Evans Graphic Work Is Featured…, Memes 1, 1989
Jope, Norman, Five Steps, Memes 1, 1989
Jope, Norman, Stride 32, Memes 1, 1989
Jope, Norman, In The Forest of Signs [Occult Connections], Memes 4, 1990
Jope, Norman, Creative Intelligence is as Evident…, Memes 8, 1993
Jope, Norman, Between Alien Worlds , Memes 9, 1994
Jope, Norman, Conversation Piece Number Two [Genteel Outsiders], Memes 9, 1994
Jope, Norman, Timbers Across The Sun, Memes 9, 1994
Jope, Norman, Kingdom of the (Hairless) Heart, Tears in the Fence 24, 1999
Jope, Norman, Ascended Ravens, Tears in the Fence 27, 2000
Jordan, Andrew, Meaning as Artifice [The Inscrutable World], 10th Muse 7, 1996
Kimber, Eve, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Pulsar Poetry Webzine June 2011,
Kirke, Alexis, A Pamphlet To Be Reckoned With [Zones of Impulse], Terrible Work 5, 1995
Kirke, Alexis, The Inscrutable World by A C Evans & Rupert Loydell, Terrible Work 6, 1996
Kopaska-Merkel, David C, Space Opera, Dreams and Nightmares, 1997
Lee, Emma, Dream Vortex, 10th Muse 10, 2000
Lee, Emma, Memories of the Future Tales of the Burning Man, 10th Muse 10, 2000
Lenkiewicz, Alice, Fractured Muse by A C Evans, Neon Highway 7, 2004
Light, John, Review of The Bards 1, 2 and 3, Atlantean Publishing Online, 2005
Lightman, Ira, Responses to A C Evans' Essay Voices in Denial, The Argotist Online, 2006
Lockey, Paul J, A C Evans takes a short surreal train ride…, Unhinged 3 , 1999
Loydell, Rupert, The Stride Interview, Stride 20, 1985
Loydell, Rupert, The Third Alternative, Stride 36, 1994
Loydell, Rupert, Stranger Here Myself (Intro: Colour of Dust), Stride, 1999
Loydell, Rupert, Poetry Is Radar, X-Peri, 2016
Loydell, Rupert, Take It Or Leave It, International Times Dec 2021,
Marsh, Jane, Jane Marsh Interviews The Poet A C Evans, Neon Highway 12 Online, 2006
Marsh, Jane, Jane Marsh Interviews The Poet A C Evans (The Illustrated Jane), Neon Highway 13, 2008
Masoliver, Carmina, Poetry and Paint Future, Poetry and Paint Oct 2015,
McMahon, Gary, Deathmasques VI Silence by A C Evans, Ookami Online, 2004
Orange, Thomas M, On Authorial Voice [Voices in Denial], Heuriskein Online, 2007
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Plevin, John, Fractured Moods Vol I, Pulsar Poetry Webzine 14 (66) March 2013,
Poison Quill, This Sepulchre Avant-Goth Poems by A C Evans, The Seventh Seal 4, 2001
Reed, Chris, Colour of Dust, The BBR Directory, 1999
Rippon, Graham, Fractured Moods, Carillon 34, 2012
Searles, A Langley, Three Titles of A C Evans have recently…, Fantasy Commentator 52, 2000
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Side, Jeffrey, Interview by Jeffrey Side, The Argotist Online, 2006
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Sneyd, Steve, Mystical/Speculative…, Data Dump 9, 1994
Sneyd, Steve, Space Opera An Interview with A C Evans, Fantasy Commentator 47/48, 1995
Sneyd, Steve, Flights From The Iron Moon, The Hilltop Press, 1995
Sneyd, Steve, Dream Vortex, Data Dump 22, 1997
Sneyd, Steve, Foreword to Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Sneyd, Steve, Visions by Association (Interview), Stride Publications, 1997
Sneyd, Steve, Space Opera, Data Dump 25, 1998
Sneyd, Steve, A Ship to Nowhere, Data Dump 31, 1998
Sneyd, Steve, Two Genre Anthologies… Data Dump 37, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, A C Evans The Stone Door, Data Dump 43, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, Also A C Evans Space Opera poem sequence, Data Dump 43, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, Colour of Dust, Data Dump 43, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, Memories of the Future, Data Dump 43, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, Swan of Yuggoth, Data Dump 44, 1999
Sneyd, Steve, The Burning Man Spacerock Fest, Data Dump 45, 2000
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Tyrer, D-J, This Sepulchre, The Supplement 56, 2011
Tyrer, D-J, Grave Implications, The Supplement 70, 2014
Tyrer, D-J, Esophagus Writ , The Supplement 73 , 2015
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Wiloch, Thomas, Between Alien Worlds, Taproot Reviews 4, 1994
Wiloch, Thomas., Decaying Orbits, Stride 29, 1987
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Zine Kat, Colour of Dust by A C Evans, Dragon's Breath 59, 1999
Zine Kat, Asphalt Jungle, Dragon's Breath 59 , 1999
Zine Kat, Handshake, Dragon's Breath 59 , 1999
Zine Kat, The BBR Directory, Dragon's Breath 59 , 1999
Zine Kat, Memories of the Future, Dragon's Breath 60, 1999
Zine Kat, Omega Lightning by A C Evans, Dragon's Breath 64, 1999

Illus: Op Art Study, 1969

Deathmasques

 Deathmasques is a collection of early writings: a few prose poems and tales from 1970-1973. 

The prose poems comprised six pieces: 'The Poet' (1970), 'No More Beauty' (1971), 'In the Palace of The Sphinx (The Supplicant)' (1972), 'Dream of Stone' (1972), 'Into The Abyss (The Renegade)' (1972) and 'Silence' (1973).
One felt that the prose poem was a particularly Decadent form. Also included were two macabre short stories 'Mute Witness' (1972) and 'We Vampires' (1972). Other texts from this period include chunks of experimental neo-gothic or modern fantastic fiction (mainly dreadful!) and various quasi-theoretical statements relating to art projects such as Crisis of the Object and Rictus Sardonicus.
Deathmasques story 'We Vampires' appeared in the anthology Haunting Tales (2008) and 'Mute Witness' from the same collection appeared in Monomyth # 44 Issue 8.2 (2008) both from Atlantean Publishing.

Deathmasques publication 1999-2020

Deathmasques I The Poet, Headstorms Short Fiction Magazine Vol 1 Inclement Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques I The Poet, Monomyth Supplement Issue 12 Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques I The Poet, International Times Jul 2020
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, Unhinged PJL Press, 3 Sept 1999
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, International Times Sept 2020
Deathmasques III In the Palace of the Sphinx (The Supplicant), International Times Sept 2020
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, Unhinged 6 Sex & Death Issue PJL Press, 2000
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques V The Renegade, Monomyth Supplement Issue 13 Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques V The Renegade (Into The Abyss), International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques VI Silence, Midnight Street 2, Immediate Direction, 2004
Deathmasques VI Silence, International Times Nov 2020

Related publications 2020

Mute Witness, International Times Nov 2020

We Vampires. International Times May 2020

Illus: Neo-Convulsive Self-Portrait 1973/2001

Dark Angel Prelude

This language was rather more than I could bear, even from an Angel - Edgar Allan Poe

illus: Dark Angel, 1969
 

Metropolitain

 

- il y a des princesses, et, ci tu n'es pas trop accable, l'etude des astres, - le ciel.

- there are princesses, and if you're not too freaked out, the study of the stars - the sky.

- Arthur Rimbaud Metropolitain:  Les Illuminations (1886)

illus: Metropolitain, 2002

Poetry Booklets 1984-2017

Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984

Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985

Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992

The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993

Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994

Not Deade But Chaynged, The Trombone Press, 1996

Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997

Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997

Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999

Omega Lightning, The Trombone Press, 1999

The Mutation Show Underscore, Silver Gull Publishing, 1999

This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000

Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003

Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007

Fractured Moods Vol 1 Haunted Astral, Atlantean Publishing, 2012

Fractured Moods Vol 2 Beautiful Chaos, Atlantean Publishing, 2012

From Outside, Argotist Ebooks, 2012

Such As This, Smallmided Books, 2012

Open Moments, Argotist Ebooks, 2017

illus: Open Moments, ArgotistEbooks, 2017

Magazine contributions 1974-2023

 

10th Muse

4th Dimension

Angel Exhaust

Asphalt Jungle

Avocado

Awen

Backdrop

Brio

Candelabrum

Carillion

Chaos International

CJCM (Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick)

Cold Print

Colonies Scifi

Curlew

Dark Fantasy Newsletter

Dark Horizons

Data Dump

Decanto

Druscilla's Garden

Eclipse

Esoteric

Fantasy Commentator

Fire

Fisheye

Formaos

Fractured

Fragments

Garbaj

Handshake

Harlequin

Headstorms

Illuminatus Monthly

Inclement

International Mag

International Times

Ixion

Journal

Legend

Memes

Midnight Street

Monas Hieroglyphica

Monomyth

Moonstone

Neon Highway

Notes From The Post-Pop Underground

Nox

Ocular

Outlaw

Penny Dreadful

Planet Prozak

Pulsar

Sci-Fright

Silver Wheel

Slope

Songs Of Innocence

Sothis

Stagger

Stride

Terrible Work

The Argotist

The Black Rose

The Brobdingnagian Times

The Daath Papers

The Hermetic Journal

The Lamp Of Thoth

The Licentiam

The New Equinox

The Penniless Press

The Seventh Seal

The Supplement

The Third Alternative

Under The Radar

Unhinged

Velocities

Voyage

WiTH

X-Peri

Zest illus: Decanto Issue 50 Dec 2010 Masque Publishing