Follow the crack between the ordinary and the impossible.
Forgotten gods walk among us — and in Party at the World's End, a few of them start a band. Out of a psych-ward breakout and a chance meeting in a roadside bar, Lilith fronts Babylon and sings a sedated country halfway awake, the players insisting they aren't playing at divinity so much as remembering they always were. What begins as a prank tips into a frenzy nobody can call off. Are they a delusional fad, or is the apocalypse really running on their schedule?
Fear and Loathing by way of the Book of Revelation and The Bacchae: brutal, darkly funny, and poised on the edge — a world sleepwalking toward the cliff, or, as Dionysus would have it, the “edge of transformation."
Listen to the audio edition of Party at the World’s End on our podcast.
The Mythpunk Novel
These Are The First And Final Days.
As Lilith and her band of miscreants transcend from escaped convicts to superstars of a different kind, they grapple with the intoxication of influence. Are they on an ego trip, or do they truly believe they are the reincarnated avatars of immortal entities?
With great power comes great danger, and they soon find themselves chased by counter-terrorism units as America begins to crumble around them, and what began as little more than a prank turns a band into the ultimate symbol of death and rebirth.
“Brutal, darkly funny, and, above all, honest.” Powell’s Books ‘Short List’.
“A progressive fictional universe created by a wickedly talented scribe… Philip K Dick might have company someday…” Brooke Burgess, the Creator of award-winning animated series Broken Saints.
“Demigods cavort with goth-punk teenagers. Ambivalent authority figures lord over underground networks. Pseudo-shamanic rituals and sex magick abound.” Reality Sandwich interview.
This is an edited, single volume containing material first serialized within Fallen Nation, 404 Documents and Words of Traitors. Contributors on previous editions include J F Stackhouse and Nathan Sampsel.
240 pg. 6"x9" paperback, speculative / occult fiction. Published 2014.
Includes front cover and black and white art by James Curcio and Chris DiSalvatore.
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