Non Fiction Publications 2016-2025

 

Non Fiction Publications 2016-2025

New Psychic Action, X-Peri Jul 2016
Paradise Deranged, X-Peri May 2016
Taking Things Too Far (The Bowie Apocalypse), International Times Jan 2016
Why The English Hate Surrealism (Our Sacred Monsters), The Supplement Issue 84 Nov 2017, Atlantean Publishing
Fear Of The Dark, X-Peri Jun 2017
Paradise Deranged, International Times May 2017
Cast The World Away Emily Jane Bronte, The Licentiam 2017
Cast The World Away Emily Jane Bronte, The Supplement Issue 86 June 2018, Atlantean Publishing
Neither Here Nor There, International Times Aug 2020,
Voices in Denial Poetry and Post-Culture, The Supplement Issue 97 June 2021, Atlantean Publishing
Cultural Seismology, The Supplement Issue 98 Sept 2021, Atlantean Publishing
Aftermath Of Enlightenment From The Gothic to The Hermetic, The Suuplement Issue 99 Nov 2021, Atlantean Publishing
Convulsive Inspiration (Occult Inspiratiion), International Times Apr 2021
Tortured Souls, International Times Dec 2021
Fear Of The Dark, The Supplement Issue 100 Mar 2022, Atlantean Publishing
The Carnival Of The Absurd, The Supplement Issue 100 Mar 2022, Atlantean Publishing
Always Bizarre, The Supplement Issue 101 Jun 2022, Atlantean Publishing
Beyond Writing, The Supplement Issue 102 Sep 2022, Atlantean Publishing
Beyond The Breakthrough, The Supplement Issue 102 Sep 2022, Atlantean Publishing
The Shadow Of The Uncanny, International Times Apr 2022
Zero Gravitas, International Times Apr 2022
Visionary (Or Nothing), International Times Jan 2022
Essentially Ersatz, International Times Jul 2022
Obscure Forces, International Times Jul 2022
Gnosticism Unmasked, International Times Jun 2022
Always Bizarre, International Times Jun 2022
Fear Of The Dark, International Times Mar 2022
Beware Of Moral Crusaders, International Times May 2022
Dark Nucleus, International Times Nov 2022
New Psychic Action International Times Nov 2022
The Fear Of The New, International Times Oct 2022
Cyborg Apocalypse, International Times Jan 2023
Event Horizon, International Times Jan 2023
Radical Grotesques, International Times Feb 2023
Only To Slowly Fade, International Times Mar 2023
Paradise Deranged, International Times Mar 2023
Twilight Of The Avant Garde, The Supplement Issue 103 Mar 2023, Atlantean Publishing
Abstraction and Reaction, International Times Apr 2023
Acute Normality Malfunction, International Times May 2023
Medusa Cascade, International Times Jun 2023
Abstraction and Reaction, The Supplement, Issue 104 Jun 2023, Atlantean Publishing
Open Realism, International Times Jul 2023
Voices In Denial, International Times Jul 2023
Beyond Writing, International Times Aug 2023
The Velvet Glove and The Iron Fist, International Times Sept 2023
New Psychic Action, The Supplement Issue 105 Sept 2023, Atlantean Publishing
Cast The World Away Emily Jane Bronte, International Times Oct 2023
Nowhere Imperfect, International Times Oct 2023
On The Way Out or Why Socialism is Doomed, International Times Nov 2023
Arcanum Paradoxa, International Times Jan 2024
Normality Malfunction, International Times Feb 2024
You Just Gotta Do It! International Times Mar 2024
Death is Only For Common People, International Times Jun 2024
The Nightmare of Rejection, International Times Jun 2024
Art and The Abyss (Astral Inferno), International Times Jul 2024
Occult and Avant Garde (Astral Inferno), International Times Aug 2024
Decadence and The Yellow Nineties, International Times Sept 2024
Magisme & Beyond (Astral Inferno), International Times Oct 2024
Spiritual Aestheticism (Astral Inferno), International Times Oct 2024
An Alchemical Inferno (Astral Inferno), International Times Nov 2024
The Purification of Form (Astral Inferno), International Times Nov 2024
Intuitive Neoplatonism (Astral Inferno), International Times Dec 2024
Ebb Tide & Culture War (Astral Inferno), International Times Jan 2025
Expressionism Emergence of The Gothic Soul (Astral Inferno), International Times Feb 2025
Expressionism II Inferno of Extremes (Astral Inferno), International Times Feb 2025
Anti-Modernism and Lethally Sparkling Mirrors (Astral Inferno), International Times Mar 2025
Darkness Over The Earth (Astral Inferno), International Times, Mar 2025
Signs of The Times (Decadence International), International Times, Apr 2025

Illus: Another Great Wave, 1991

Non Fiction Publications 2000-2015

Non Fiction Publications 2000-2015

Against The Finite Poem, Stride Magazine Nov 2000 [online], Stride Publications, 2000

A Selection From the Works of Thomas Swan, Cold Print Aug 2001, , 2001

Hotel Faust, Cold Print Aug 2001, , 2001

Inventions Of The Unknown, Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2002

The Other Side Of The Darkside (Manifesto Unique Zero) , The Void Gallery [online], The Void, 2002

Visionary (Or Nothing), Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2002

A Muse In Museum Street, Monomyth Supplement Issue 12 2004, Atlantean Publishing, 2004

A New Strangeness, Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2005

Don't Shoot The Pianist , Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2005

Essentially Ersatz, The Supplement Issue 24 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

Fascist Thinking, The Supplement Issue 22 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

Geste Surrealiste, Monomyth Supplement Issue 18 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

Poetic Neo-Puritanism,  Monomyth Supplement Issue 20 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

The Fear Of The New, The Supplement Issue 25 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

The Shadow Of The Uncanny, The Supplement Issue 22 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

When The Lights Go Out, Monomyth Supplement Issue 20 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

Zero Gravitas, The Supplement Issue 21 2005, Atlantean Publishing, 2005

A Visitor's Guide To Late Victorian Babylon, The Supplement Issue 31 Dec 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

Against The Cosmos, The Supplement Issue 31 Dec 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

Basingstoke's Very Own, The Supplement Issue 29 July 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

Musical Greatness, The Supplement Issue 30 Oct 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

Only To Slowly Fade, The Supplement Issue 26 Jan 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

The Dark Nucleus, The Supplement Issue 29 July 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

The Post-Modern Sell-Out, The Supplement Issue 28 May 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

They Need An Enemy, The Supplement Issue 26 Jan 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

What Is Truth?, The Supplement Issue 28 May 2006, Atlantean Publishing, 2006

A Progressive Disease, The Supplement Issue 36 Sept 2007, Atlantean Publishing, 2007

From Decadence To Modernity, The Supplement Issue 37 Nov 2007, Atlantean Publishing, 2007

Into The Heart Of Dada Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2007

Nightmare Scenarios , Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2007

The Secret Agent (Radical Grotesques)  , The Supplement Issue 37 Nov 2007, Atlantean Publishing, 2007

A Hymn To Contorted Beauty, Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2008

Nightmare Scenarios [abridged], Midnight Street 10, Immediate Direction, 2008

Arcanum Paradoxa , The Supplement Issue 44 Jan 2009, Atlantean Publishing, 2009

Delusions Of Cosmic Destiny, Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2009

Genre Music Extra, Data Dump No 141 Nov 2009, Hilltop Press, 2009

The Unique Zero Manifesto, Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh , Salt Publishing, 2009

Flying Saucers Over London, Data Dump No 150 Aug 2010, Hilltop Press, 2010

Watch This Space Close Encounters Of The Third Mind , Stride Magazine [online], Stride Publications, 2010

When The Lights Go Out, The Supplement Issue 50 May 2010, Atlantean Publishing, 2010

Astro Black Morphologies, Data Dump No 162 Aug 2011, Hilltop Press, 2011

Dada Pop Art & Normality Malfunction, The Supplement Issue 58 Nov 2011, Atlantean Publishing, 2011

H P Lovebox Exposed, Data Dump No 156 Feb 2011, Hilltop Press, 2011

Hermetic Art Gnostic Alchemy Of The Imagination , The Alchemy Website [online], , 2011

Messiaen And Surrealism, The Oliver Messiaen Page [online], , 2011

Watch This Space Close Encounters Of The Third Mind (Without # 1-10} , The Supplement Issue 55 May 2011, Atlantean Publishing, 2011

Look With Your Inner Eye, The Supplement Issue 62 July 2012, Atlantean Publishing, 2012

Too Much Like Real Life (From Outside), Neon Highway Issue 22 Spring 2012, , 2012

Too Much Like Real Life (From Outside), The Supplement Issue 62 July 2012, Atlantean Publishing, 2012

Up For Fun! Random Impressions Of A Summer Like No Other, Garbaj Issue 50 Feb 2012, Atlantean Publishing, 2012

Fear The Moral Nebulae, Stride Magazine 2013 [online], Stride Publications, 2013

Nothing In Particular (Nothing A Very Short Introduction), The Supplement Issue 67 July 2013, Atlantean Publishing, 2013

Poets Must Be Vigilant, The Supplement Issue 65 March 2013, Atlantean Publishing, 2013

Memoir Of Subtopia, The Supplement Issue 70 2014, Atlantean Publishing, 2014

No More Whores In Babylon, Stride Magazine Mar 2014 [online], Stride Publications, 2014

Into Dangerous Territory, Stride Magazine Sept 2015 [online], Stride Publications, 2015

* in chronological order

Illus: Subtopia Anything XV, 1995

Non Fiction Publications 1974-1999

Non Fiction Publications 1974-1999

Olivier Messiaen In The Surrealist Context Part One Brio Vol 11 No 1 Spring 1974 IAML UK
Olivier Messiaen In The Surrealist Context Part Two Brio Vol 11 No 2 Autumn 1974 IAML UK
Huysmans Decadence And Dissociation Part 1 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol II No 2 Dec 1981 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Paranoia Magic Of Salvador Dali The New Equinox Vol. 5 Part 3 February 1981 Kaaba Publications
Huysmans Decadence And Dissociation Part 2 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol II No 3 Apr 1982 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Symbolic Art And Sigilization Part 1 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol II No 3 Apr 1982 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Symbolic Art And Sigilization Part 2 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol II No 4 July 1982 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Initiation And Illusion The Nightmare Of Rejection Part 1 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol II No 6 June 1983 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Bond Street Snatches Stride 16 July 1984 Stride Publications
Initiation And Illusion The Nightmare Of Rejection Part 2 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol III No 1 Feb 1984 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Long Corridors And Stained Sheets Stride 20 Spring 1985 Stride Publications
Fantasies Of Displacement Stride 22 Autumn 1985 Stride Publications
Hermetic Art Gnostic Alchemy Of The Imagination The Hermetic Journal Vol 28 1985
Beyond The Reality Principle Part 1 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol III No 5 Aug 1985 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Hermetic Art Gnostic Alchemy Of The Imagination Nox The Magazine Of The Abyss Vol 1 No 1 Issue 1 Apr 1986 Disrupters Press
Gwen John As Icon Stride 26 The Baden-Powell Shuffle 1986 Stride Publications
The Mysteries Of Ellipsis Stride 26 The Baden-Powell Shuffle 1986 Stride Publications
The Red Switch Stride 26 The Baden-Powell Shuffle 1986 Stride Publications
Only False Keys Stride 26 The Baden-Powell Shuffle 1986 Stride Publications
Beyond The Reality Principle Part 2 The Lamp Of Thoth Vol III No 6 Feb 1986 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Poetry Of Terra Stride 27 July 1987 Stride Publications
Aftermath Of Enlightenment From The Gothic to The Hermetic Nox The Magazine Of The Abyss Vol 1 No 2 Issue 2 Aug 1986 Disrupters Press
Flyin’ Woodle Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Fortean Times The Journal Of Strange Phenomena Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Objects Displaced By Darkness Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Ponsanooth Surrealists In The Service Of The Revolution Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Punch Lines Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Rhetoric Of Significance Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
The Rorcharsch Test Stride 29 1987 Stride Publications
Visionaries Against The Clever Club Stride 30 A Show Of Hands 1988 Stride Publications
Occult Connections Part 1 Memes 3 Mar 1990
Occult Connections Part 2 Memes 4 Sept 1990
Occult Connections Part 3 Memes 5 May 1991
Alfred Jarry Or Death is Only for Common People The Nox Anthology Dark Doctrines (Nox Vol 3 No 1 June 1991) New World Publishing
Angels Of Rancid Glamour Notes On Neo-Decadence Part 1 Chaos International Issue No 13 Sept 1992 BM Sorcery
Angels Of Rancid Glamour Notes On Neo-Decadence Part 2 Chaos International Issue No 14 Dec 1992 BM Sorcery
The Aesthetic Transformation Of Perception Chaos International Issue No 15 Mar 1993 BM Sorcery
Genteel Outsiders Notes On Character In London Clay Emotional Geology Stride Publications 1993
Karstic Landscape With Added Weirdness Memes 8 Nov 1993
Post-Modern Prometheus Memes 8 Nov 1993
Requiem For Dismembered Plastic Memes 8 Nov 1993
Soundings From Futurity’s Icy Radar Memes 8 Nov 1993
How Few Words Timbers Across The Sun (Introduction) University Of Salzburg 1993
Cloud Assail Memes 10 1994
Intimacy Magazine Memes 10 1994
Ostinato Magazine Memes 10 1994
Subliminal Investigator Memes 10 1994
The Visible And The Invisible Stride 36 Closed Volumes 1994 Stride Publications
Voices Or The Memory The Sensation The Sonata Stride 36 Closed Volumes 1994 Stride Publications
Worlds Known And Not (Rupert Loydell Interview) Trajectories Phlebas 1994
Angels Of Rancid Glamour Notes On Neo-Decadence Angels Of Rancid Glamour (Stride Research Document No 8) Stride Publications 1998
Phantoms Dissolving In Time Colour Of Dust (Preface) Stride Publications 1999
An Offbeat Phenomenon Zest 6 Spring 1999 IDR

Illustration: Veronica Lurk II, 1974

The View From Planet X

Charting the Postsurreal – Recent Non Fiction by A C Evans

From Hoffmann and German Romanticism, to the modern fantastic in horror films, fantasy has tried to erode the pillars of society by un-doing categorical structures. - Rosemary Jackson (1981)

‘Arcanum Paradoxa’, a brief survey of alchemy and its poetic links which first appeared here on CygnusX, has now been published as an article in The Monomyth Supplement 44 (Jan 2009) from Atlantean Publishing. ‘Arcanum’ is one of several investigative essays – an ongoing enquiry into the aesthetics of the post-surreal. Another contribution to this, no doubt, infinite project is ‘The Unique Zero Manifesto – Towards the Open Realism of Disclosure'’ (2002-2007) which probes further the ‘primal mechanics’ of the creative process. ‘Unique Zero’ is forthcoming from Salt Publishing , included in the anthology Troubles Swapped For Something Fresh, edited by Rupert Loydell of Stride.

Also there are several review articles now available online from Stride.
These include 'Nightmare Scenarios: Incursions of the Unacceptable’ (2007) a look at English horror films through English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (2006) a reference survey by film critic and actor Jonathan Rigby. An abridged version of this review also appeared in the magazine Midnight Street.
‘A Hymn to Contorted Beauty’ (2008), a review of Prague-German writer Paul Leppin’s 1930s novel Blaugast: A Novel of Decline (‘In these pages we find the ultimate, amorphous horror of mere existence depicted in the most graphic way’) and, most recently, ‘Delusions of Cosmic Destiny’, an analysis of Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions by historian Ronald H Fritze. Check out a reaction to this review on Planet Clio.

The 2006 'Interview With Jane Marsh', culture correspondent extraordinaire, was reissued in print last year and appeared in Neon Highway 13. Known as ‘The Illustrated Jane’ this contained both artwork and documentary photos chosen to compliment the text.

Artist Mervyn Peake once asked; ‘what should we hope for as the curtain rises and lays bare the gratuitous stage where, unhindered a man may cry his ghostly manifesto? A miracle? Of course. For we have seen paper transformed into a cosmos of such vibrancy as made the room we stood in like a land of the dead.’ (Introduction to The Drawings of Mervyn Peake, 1949).

So... cry your ghostly manifestos!

Illustration: The View from Planet X, 1993