extremely funny read

Economist Michael Hudson discusses working at Chase Manhattan, where he was contacted by a CIA officer in 1967 and enlisted to study the economics of organized crime. The CIA was interested in funding operations with illicit revenue. From @OurHiddenHistry youtube.com/watch?v=fOJNW3…

What story in my collection of weird tales caused Monsieur Valdemar to collapse into liquid putrescence? only way to find out is to buy a copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/toadst…

hoping back over onto this, my NEWLY RESTORED account, to plug some things. Thing the First: since the cruel and unjust BAN, i've been tweeting over at Eric Williams, and that's gonna be my new main account, so if you wanted to you could follow me over there

Thing the Second: i wrote a collection of classic, pulpy Weird Tales inspired short stories full of gods and monsters and rocks and such. It's called TOADSTONES, was published by the inestimable Malarkey on the Radio, and is available to buy RIGHT NOW: malarkeybooks.com/toadstones

Thing the Third: i've been working with Matthew Spencer on a collection of the translated stories that were published in Weird Tales magazine in the 20s and 30s, and we're nearing completion of that book even as we speak! It's going to be up for preorder soon by Paradise Editions!

wild TOADSTONES has been available for you to buy and read (and rate and review hint hint) for a WHOLE YEAR! anyway, buy a copy and i'll put a good word in for you with the Bureaucracy of Hell, get you a cushy job with ol lady Meng over at the soup of oblivion pavilion, you know?

For Paradise Editions's second release, at just in time for Halloween, we a have Night Fears, a macabre assortment of translated poems and stories from the pages of Weird Tales, edited by Eric Williams and available for preorder through Asterism Books: asterismbooks.com/product/night-…

One of the difficulties in assembling Night Fears was packing large type and elaborate punctuation into pocket-paperback size. A bit of a lost art. But these stories, which originally appeared in serial format, need that look to read their best:

There are nested quotations sometimes three or four layers deep, and while I'm glad that those conventions have largely fallen by the wayside, they do create a discursive effect that can't be replicated, except maybe by its opposite: no quotation marks at all.

Happy birthday to Eric Williams! It was a blast putting Night Fears together. And if any of the rest of you like your Valentine's Day celebrations mixed with a little existential terror, check out this short story by Andreyev: