ISSUE NINE - Blood Knife

ISSUE NINE ISSUE NINE

DOOM AND DESPAIR_

Strange voices beckon us from the void. Impossible structures loom forth from the mists of history. This month we gaze long into the darkness of cosmic horror, and cast our dreams to the bleak and star-stricken heavens.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF_WOE_

BY KURT SCHILLER — The architectural relics of a forgotten age were central elements of gothic and cosmic horror. Now, surrounded by the battered and abandoned ruins of de-industrialization, they've become central to modernity as well.

THE DIRE THRUM OF NIGHT.

Our voyage falters, setting us adrift in despair and chaos. The engines scream and fail, and fall silent—until, at last, a new sound is heard. The sound of oblivion.

This month our playlist beckons to the void, calling up the music of the heavens and the crushing indifference of the stars.

“It’s a compartmentalized part of me that does the music for movies. I bring it out when I have to make a movie, then put it away again and enjoy my life, because otherwise I’m haunted by it.”

— John Carpenter

ARTICLES ARTICLES

FEATURES_

There are secrets out beyond the edge of the dark. Stars and worlds we were never meant to know. Lands that seethe with a hateful intensity, beneath the baleful glow of a strange and unknowable midnight. This month, we visit them.

AN INTERVIEW WITH LAIRD BARRON

BY BLOOD KNIFE — ``Cosmic horror often reveals itself indirectly. The fossil record; rings in an ancient tree; occulted societies and customs handed down through millennia.`` The paradigmatic horror author talks cosmic horror, philosophy, and writing.

SPACE MADNESS: A PRIMER

BY LESLIE LEE III

GNOSTIC HORROR AND THE FALL INTO HISTORY

BY KAY HALLORAN

SPECIAL THANKS

A very special thank-you goes out this month to Blood Knife subscriber Alex Leonard, who picked this month's theme.

THE COSMIC SEXUALITY OF STUART GORDON

BY RYAN E. TORGESON

THE CALL OF THE VOID

BY SEAN RUFFMAN

STAY SHARP STAY SHARP

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