For Weaponizer.com: circa. 2009ce (closed 2014, archived here)
‘The Tribe of the Strange: Origin Myth’
-Republished at Anomalous Engineering September 2015
‘Frequently Asked Questions About Weird Shit’
‘Guttershaman Primer’
The Mason Lang Film Club:
As-yet-unfinished, this is a look at the remarkable wave of Gnostically tinged cinema of 1998/99, through the lens of Grant Morrison’s character from The Invisibles, Mason Lang:
-Intro
-‘The Matrix’
-‘The Thirteenth Floor’
For Rending The Veil.com: 2009ce (closed 2014, archived here)
Review: ‘The Apophenion’
Review: ‘Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Over?’ Most scathing review I ever gave.
Review: ‘Raising Hell’
‘Veiled Issues: The ‘-ism Schism’ – Comments on atheism vs faith”
For Modern Mythology: 2009/10ce (archived here)
‘Into The Hyperreal’
-Part 1: ‘Census Sweep’
-Part 2: ‘Cargo’
-Part 3: ‘Modern Soul’
The ‘Into The Hyper-Real’ articles appear in the printed collection Apocalyptic Imaginary
(Mythos Media, 2012; ISBN-13: 978-0615590011) and was revised/republished in one article at Anomalous Engineering.
‘Infinite Diversity’
-One of my favourite and most personal articles, this is about the influence of Star Trek and its philosophy on me.
For Daily Grail:2010ce to present
‘The Place Of Maybe’ (introductory post)
Review – ‘The Cabin in the Woods’
Review – ‘The River’, Season 1
Review – ‘The Forbidden Book’ Second-most scathing review I ever gave. Close thing!
Review – ‘Apocalyptic Witchcraft’ by Peter Grey
‘Pulling The Cosmic Trigger – The Kazimier, Liverpool, UK, 23 February 2014’
Review – ‘A Very English Apocalypse: Current 93 at Halifax Minster’
‘Your Face, Their Algorithm: NSA facial recognition’ (and the great TV show Person Of Interest)
‘Slenderman: Five Years’
Review – ‘Discovering Scarfolk’ by Richard Littler
Review – ‘Constantine’ TV pilot
In the Darklore journal:
Volume 6: ‘The Slenderman: Tracing the birth and evolution of a modern monster’
(Daily Grail Publishing, 2011; ISBN-13: 978-0980711189)
Volume 7: ‘Killing Slenderman: Editing a modern myth before it bites’
(Daily Grail Publishing, 2012; ISBN-13: 978-0987422408)
Volume 8: ‘Believing In Fiction: The Rise Of Hyperreal Religion’
(Daily Grail Publishing 2014; ISBN-13: 978-0987422460)
Volume 9: ‘The New Gods’
(Daily Grail Publishing 2016: ISBN-13: 978-0994617606)
An extract from the first Slenderman article was republished by Xojane; and the article was translated into French for the Fortean site Tryangle
At Spiral Nature: 2012ce to present
Review: ‘Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods’
The Hype: my (allegedly) monthly column since April 2014:
– Pop occulture and hyper-real religion
– ‘True Detective: A flat circle in Chapel Perilous’
– ‘London’s calling: the city as character in urban fantasy’ – ‘Doing It Wrong – Cultural Theft and Supernatural‘
–‘Twin Peaks: The fire still burns’
-Xmas edition: Everything is awesome! Magick, metaphor and Lego
–The Babadook: Everyone gets what they want
For Grinding.be: 2013ce
Guest post “Rate Of Return: Woolwich, 4GW and Kayfabe.” (One of my very few purely political posts)
For Fortean Times: 2014 ce
None with web versions as yet.
Feature article: “The Slender Man: From Viral To Postal”, issue 317, August 2014ce
Forum article: “…that tingling feeling…” on Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, issue 322, November 2014ce
Forum article: “Pulling The Cosmic Trigger” issue 323, December 2014ce
Announced Works:
Book: ‘New Gods and Monsters’ (Daily Grail Publishing, 2016)
LECTURES:
On Eris and Discordianism, Leeds University Occult Society, Circa. 1995
Tantra 101 and 102, UK Bicon, circa 1994/5ce
At academic institutions:
On paganism and Midsummer: for Make/Believe event at Royal College of Art, London (22 April 2015) Video here
Robert Anton Wilson: Gnostic Agnostic for Marginal Presences conference at Senate House Library, London (23 April 2015) A longer version was given as RAW MAGIC: The Occultism of Robert Anton Wilson, see below
The Tulpa In The West: for ‘Fandom and Religion’ conference, University of Leicester (29 July 2015) Paper here
Slenderman: Fight Fiction With Fiction (25 November 2013ce) Video – bad sound sorry – here.
Cthulhu, Fiction and Real Magic (3 December 2014ce) Audio and footnotes here
Science Fiction’s Gifts To Paganism (12 February 2015ce) Video and footnotes here
RAW MAGIC: The Occultism of Robert Anton Wilson (27 August 2015) Video here and Q&A session here
Other lectures:
‘Searching for Slenderman’, London Fortean Society (8 October 2014ce)
Interviews: