"Sarcastic Ads" is a series of advertisements for businesses and personal ads, delivered in the form of dry humor. It is inspired partly by The Onion and partly by MAD magazine, both of which contain these sorts of inclusions in profusion. It is meant to make the reader laugh, partly because the ads are brutally honest, exposing the underbelly of corporate life and government.
90 pages.
This little work details some of the herbs used in a medicinal setting pertinent to bathing throughout time, with a special focus on the practices of ancient Greece and Rome. It compares these usages to practices in vogue in then-modern (18th century) England.
The processes detailed are often presented in such a manner that some of the recipes used in both hot and cold bathing- especially aromatics and astringents pertinent to the theory of the four humors proposed initially by Galen but still believed in until relatively modern times with the rise of early standardized systems in organic medicine.
Fully illustrated.
37 pages.
As many of you know, I have pledged never to end the process of editing old occult, paranormal, and historical works. This is part of a greater, very long term project designed to release material to the world in a modern format at a reasonable price, in order to expand the knowledge of the populous.
But I have been absent for months! A few snags hit my work recently; most important of which was due to my own stupidity- I accidentally forgot to back up some of my more recent edited works and lost several volumes which had been completed and were pending illustration.
Oops.
Not to worry though! Five works were successfully backed up on removable storage and are still pending the same, and I have just finished editing a (very good) work which uses both ancient Egyptian and Biblical sources to encourage readers to largely abstain from using salt in their food for both spiritual and medical reasons. I have a pair of works now to edit on the topic of sex worship, phallicism, and gendered symbolism within a historical and spiritual context. Many other works await, and the first editions should begin trickling out some time in July. I have planned for ten releases this year, and ten the next, and thus will slow down my releases, so as not to overwhelm my audience.
This is of course in addition to a number of works I wish to author- some political, some humorous, some occult, and the reworking of "Fruits of Eden" which I still consider my most ample contribution to date.
Onward!
From the famed Devils of Loudon to the workings of John Dee, and from Lurancy Vennum to Swedenborg, "Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters" is a fine collection of strange lore related to spirits, hauntings, strange legal cases, and spiritual dabbling. It is a skeptical work, and relates these cases in their historical context with great accuracy, with the writer attempting at times to debunk the tales being told and their prior explanations, which of course tended towards the superstitious. It mixes this with a semi-rationalized endorsement of investigations into the supermundane, by various methods, especially within the realm of psychology and the application of hypnotism, telepathy, and so forth, within a scientific context. It is a truly valuable collection of paranormal tales for the folklore lover.
147 pages.
This intriguing work is fairly obviously inspired in part by Blavatskys early Theosophical writings, and draws allegory between the Bible and then-modern events, prophecying the fall of Britain and the rise of the United States as a world power, establishing a (literal) church in Philadelphia- the actual city of residence of the pseudonymous author. It is richly linguistic (read; dense) and so will mainly be of interest to those who like language, hidden writing, and prophecy. Oddly, the prophecy did actually come true; the United States would, in only a few short decades, become a dominant power with the launch of the great white navy, the rise of art deco and the boom times of industry, and Britain would at the same time begin to fracture. Indeed when the language is dug into fairly deeply, it's surprisingly accurate.
This edition has been fully reillustrated by Raven Feather Illustrations
88 pages.
Alright everyone.
It's time for probably the final update of the year; I have the illustrations for the final two works I will release this year- right now "Hints from the Hornograph" is still in review, already uploaded to Amazon, and after that come "Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters" and "Investigations Into the Superphysical"- but that is just the tip of the iceberg, I am happy to announce!
After having already revised my expected yearly works upward twice, I continued well beyond that already expanded project and began working on works for 2024. Six are already done, a seventh half edited, and several others already awaiting editing having been formatted. All in all it should be pretty easy to get at least twenty works out in 2024- while likely editing ahead for the subsequent year since I am a workaholic. Several of these works will be particularly important; such as "Observations on the Use of Bathing" which is a mid 18th century medical work of historical import for its references to such usages in antiquity.
While I didn't get around to it this year, I am also really going to try and create several more full length compiled works next year, and hopefully get to re-editing and vastly expanding some of my own authored texts.
Onward!
This is a very interesting Theosophical work; at times rather confusing, with a lot of content which resembles a religious tract more than a coherent book. Nonetheless, its content is fairly straight-forward; it deals with the topic of sacred sexuality and biblical allegory, overlapped with biochemistry, utilizing the theory of "mineral salts" and their role in the human body. Abstaining from alcohol and sex is a common subtopic- although the work does not make it clear whether the latter should also take place within the confines of marriage. It quotes both the Christian Bible and Blavatsky, and also intertwines with elements of Hinduism such as the kundalini.
210 pages.
Benjamin Hills exhaustive work on homeopathy is effectively meant to be a guide to the actual usage of the medicines involved with the practice- a list of different materials of note (herbal and mineral), and various conditions and their treatments. This system departs somewhat from older medical traditions which were more drastic, while retaining a focus on using many substances known to be dangerous to human health, such as ipecac and arsenic. It speaks briefly on the preparation of medicinal compounds and pills as well.
Some of the treatments proposed are also innocuous- a departure from older medicine, while retaining some of the same basic premises of Galenism.
103 pages.
Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the more notable compilers of folklore and history in his century. This particular edition is one of the greater ones; the lore comes from many cultures and time periods, and was chosen specifically because it was curious or odd. So we have tales here of saints which were insane paired with cryptography, and folklore regarding women resides in the same work as a collection of stories of animals being criminally prosecuted. Much of the content is humorous, all of it is interesting.
This edition has been illustrated by Raven Feather Illustrations.
235 pages.
This mid-19th century work is an excellent materia medica, more rigorously categorical than many competing editions from the time period, containing an entire list of abbreviations for the usage of species, which are then applied in the work. It contains several hundred different entries- the usages are sometimes archaic, although some terms (such as astringent and stimulant) are still used.
It is a fine example of herbal medicine from the early period in which organic chemistry was leading to the rudimentary standardization of dosage- the work details the difference between tinctures, extracts, and so forth, as well.
Illustrated by Raven Feather Illustrations.
99 pages.
This is a special announcement!
The Book of Forbidden Knowledge inexplicably became my all time best seller years ago- it is a bric a brac, likely with multiple authors, and compiles material related to charms, talismans, divination, black magic, spirit-rapping, and other oddities. A few entries appear to be tongue in cheek (curing someone of a gambling addiction by whipping them with a piece of leather from an executioners' whip for example!), and is a very good read all in all. This improved new edition corrects a few errors in the original, is fully reillustrated, and uses a more professional format. I also dropped the price; Amazon has become a landscape of price undercuts by people releasing cheap, crappy editions and taking advantage of the new pricing system.
It is truly one of the most inexplicably strange works I have edited.
109 pages.
For some time now I have been tinkering with the idea of a political comedy work- a short text detailing the end of civilization as we know it, framed against the backdrop of the subversive wokeness in most developed nations.
And I finally wrote it. What's funnier than a legless, genetically modified dwarven communist opposing a robot dressed as Ronald Reagan in an election? Well, the destruction of the entire US government and a nuclear war, of course! This little sub-novella was a thrill to write- a relaxing break from the academic material I normally work with.
You'll find snark on every page. It is deliberately atmospheric. I am considering adapting it into an actual novel in the future. For now, the year is 2099- our future... their present.
58 pages.
This collection of short stories is meant to ridicule and lampoon TDS suffering leftists and neocons while exploring their bizarre psychological abnormalities. In the first volume of these tales, I focused mainly on straight-up political satire, often with a fetishistic angle, but in this volume I decided to deprave it even more and include a greater deal of peepee poopoo comedy. Herein, you'll witness deranged left wingers and a few globalistic neocons deprave themselves to impress Big Don, slipping into hilarious madness over and over again. Of great importance to those who enjoyed the first volume, both Joey and Lil' Ronnie make a reappearance!
These stories are absolutely not based on real life figures suffering from the mental illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.
51 pages.
Arcana Saitica is an interesting work related to the Freemasons. It posits a mystic element to the path of Freemasonry, while additionally pointing out that most Masons do not, strictly speaking, follow a mystical path at all, and are effectively simply part of a fraternal order of civic and personal importance.
The mysticism here is partially historical, partially linguistic, and references Ancient Egypt, the Chaldeans, Buddhism, and other paths and time periods. The zodiac and astrological system of the West is additionally prominent.
42 pages.
Alright everyone- things are progressing fairly quickly here, so as people back in the states grab up their hot dogs and sparklers I figured now is a good time for a new work update!
All of the fifteen edited works I plan to release this year (originally ten- I'm a workaholic and outpaced myself as usual)- have now been completed, save for two titles for which I have not yet worked through a second time just to remove any bad formatting or grammar mistakes I missed on the first go-around. The works will be illustrated, as usual, by Raven Feather Illustrations- and so their release is contingent upon the illustrators' pacing.
I am also writing several other works- now halfway done with "Orange Man Big" volume II, and a couple of other top secret political tracts in various stages of completion.
As the capstone for 2023 I have chosen to entirely re-edit "Fruits of Eden, Herbalism and the Occult" which was my first significant literary effort, but needs to be entirely reformatted, re-edited, and expanded. I have a list of about thirty new botanical species I intend to include, based largely on my research in editing herbal works, and intend as well a new short section dealing with some interesting edible species that most people do not know are edible- for example, hollyhocks (yes, surprisingly the entire plant is edible, and was used in a lot of Victorian salads as a garnish), purslane (an innocuous little cruciferous weed) and others.
This will probably complete literary work for the year, barring new ideas that randomly pop into my head especially with regards to topics related to any forthcoming culture wars that may erupt.
Onward!
This full length work is a treatment of the topic of Thomsonian medicine (also reckoned vegetable medicine) which came into some prominence in the 19th century. The system sought to replace the use of arsenic, mercury, and other drastic "medicines" in usage with herbal materials, especially lobelia, and also cayenne pepper, for complaints. The system was designed by a simple farmer named Samuel Thomson, who probably saved millions of lives by simply not poisoning his patients as doctors were doing at the time. The entire premodern field of herbal medicine owes part of its existence to the man. A few herbal recipes are related verbatim from Thomsons' work, and a lengthy description of competing systems such as atmopathy and hydropathy is given.
250 pages.
I am pleased to announce that as of this morning, I have completed the first proofreading and editing of the tenth and final edited work I intended to release this year- and we're not even halfway through the year! This tenth work, "Hints from the Hornograph" is possibly the strangest work I have ever edited, and the format so bizarre that I had to lift several pages verbatim from the work itself just to retain all the original intent of the material.
The next step is to write each foreword for the works, summarizing them and giving context, then the second edit just to clear up any spelling mistakes or formatting issues I missed on the first go-through. Then once my illustrator creates the illustrations for each work, cover art is made and the work released. I anticipate this process will be complete by September.
In the meantime I have decided to edit five more editions before the year ends, as well as writing several works: "Timmy Story", which is a novella roughly made to eventually be turned into a low budget muppet-style movie- a thing I have dabbled with for years, as well as "Nutty Norman"- a collection of short works in which a very troubled adolescent with enormous behavioral issues continuously goes insane and does terrible things. I also plan a second volume of "Orange Man Big!" since the first one sold more than a thousand copies just in its first week.
Currently, apart from finalizing the edited works, I am focusing on a short political work on gun rights, attempting to help those which support the militia to make more effective and accurate arguments in favor of the same, while rebuffing some of the main talking points of those who dislike the idea of an armed populous, self defense, etc.
As you can see, I am no slouch. Onward to the second half of the year!
