The daemon and the doors of perception: An interview with James Fadiman
My 2012 conversation with James Fadiman about psychedelics, creative inspiration, the daimon, and the possibility of help from beyond the self.
It's all a matter of personal pathology: An interview with Thomas Ligotti
My 2006 interview with Ligotti, in which he discusses writing, anhedonia, the sources of his horror fiction, and what a perfect world might look like.
AI is not the muse
What generative AI can—and cannot—give the writer.
The ghost inside the human mind
A science headline recalls a speculative thinker and his vision of the divided self.
What’s so horrific about religion (and religious about horror)?
Sleep paralysis, the daemon muse, and the questions that stayed with me
A new home, and what comes next
New essays, books in progress, a return to The Teeming Brain, and some music from another part of my creative life.