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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 10h

Currently Reading: THE SHADOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Thomas Ligotti This is also a reread. This was the first Ligotti collection I ever purchased/read, way back in December 2005.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Currently Reading: THE ELECTRO ETHERIC MINOTAUR by Damian Murphy (Church Ghost)

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Currently Reading: GODZILLA by Ian Thorne This is actually a reread. I've been a Godzilla fan since as long as I can remember. Along with Lewis Carroll's Alice, he's one of my first and oldest friends.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also Currently Reading: MOVIE MONSTERS by Gary Poole This is actually a reread. I got this book in the second grade, way back in the mid-to-late 1980s. My copy is so old and beat-up that it's practically falling apart!

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Currently Reading: SHADOW OF THE VAMPUSS by Karen Mahony (writer) and Alex Ukolov (illustrator) This is yet another one of those cat-themed books I've had lying around for years (in this case, 2005, the year it was published) that I'm finally getting around to officially reading

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently Reading: THE BEST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT by H.P. Lovecraft This is a reread

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Currently Reading: BRUTALIST PLANTS by Olivia Broome

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Currently Reading: MAYBE IN HEAVEN by Francesca Penchant (Rachilde & Co.)

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Currently Reading: THEOGONY AND WORKS AND DAYS by Hesiod (M.L. West translation)

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Currently Reading: MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Currently Reading: MYSTERY CULTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD by Hugh Bowden + BAD CAT by Jim Edgar

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Currently Reading: THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO by Ernest Hemingway

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Currently Reading: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF YUKIO MISHIMA by Henry Scott Stokes

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Currently Reading: HIDDEN FACES by Salvador Dalí

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

First draft of my metaphysical college basketball romance novel THE JOY OF THE WORM completed yesterday. More details at my Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Currently Reading: THE ADVENTURE ZONE Vol. 7: STORY AND SONG by the McElroys + illustrated by Carey Pietsch Hard to believe it's been almost a decade since I read the first installment in this series. This is the final one.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Also Currently Reading: THE OEDIPUS PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES by Sophocles I did read OEDIPUS THE KING Freshman year at Rhode Island College (almost 30 years ago), so that's a reread (though the one I read back then was the Berg/Clay translation). I've never read the other two, though

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Currently Reading: SAINT SEVERINA'S FIRE by Damian Murphy (Occult Press)

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Note: this has nothing to do with the United States Semiquincentennial

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Currently Reading: SHAKESPEARE: THE WORLD AS STAGE by Bill Bryson

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Currently Reading: MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Currently Reading: WILL IN THE WORLD by Stephen Greenblatt I've read almost the first 40 pages in one sitting. Very well-written and fascinating

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Currently Reading: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION + HEAVEN AND HELL by Aldous Huxley

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Recently Read: CAT NAP by Brian Lies

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Currently Reading: UTOPIA by Thomas More

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Justin Isis @justinisis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My intro to The Electro-Etheric Minotaur by @saintseverina.bsky.social. It would be an understatement to say that I think you should head over to Church Ghost Press and buy this book immediately. justinisis.substack.com/p/the-electr...

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The Electro-Etheric Minotaur

Intro to the Story Collection by Damian Murphy

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Currently Reading: THE ART OF MEMORY by Frances A. Yates This is a book I've wanted to read for a very long time, ever since I read Thomas Harris recommend it in the afterword of his HANNIBAL novel back in 1999.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This arrived in the mail yesterday, a Japanese edition of Huxley's THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, with Blake cover art and some nice fold-out sections. I haven't read it in English yet (though I do own a copy, which I may read in June), but when I saw this pop up on my eBay I just knew I had to have it

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Currently Reading: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare I read just the play itself last year, but I thought it might be a good idea to do more of a deep-dive, and this one has lots of commentaries/essays about the play itself, reproduces the sources from Plutarch that Shakespeare used, etc

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Neo-Decadents take on the subject of Readers. I wrote a few words for this one, and as usual, tried to balance out the vituperation with a bit of level-headedness. neopasseism.substack.com/p/readers

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Readers

what no visionary writer wants

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Currently Reading: BAD DREAMS IN THE NIGHT by Adam Ellis

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Today I rewatched the film INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994), which I first saw over 25 years ago, in the year 2000, otherwise known as my Year of the Goth. Funnily enough, this evening a friend reminded me that May 22 was World Goth Day, which I had forgotten

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Currently Reading: BATMAN: THE CULT (Deluxe Edition) by Jim Starlin/Art by Bernie Wrightson I first read this (in non-deluxe format) a LONG time ago, like probably in the middle of Grant Morrison's BATMAN run, as it was one of the (many) BATMAN titles they referenced/took inspiration from

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Currently Reading: THE HUMMINGBIRD'S GIFT by Sy Montgomery

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Currently Reading: THE ODYSSEY by Homer (Emily Wilson translation) For Mara Whitefish

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Recently Read: ART CAT by Smith Street Books

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I often see Hazel on my bed, and less frequently Spencer, but it's rare that I see them both on my bed at the same time.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As a comic strip BALDO is usually insufferably lame (like most modern comic strips it tends to recycle the same 4-5 jokes on a weekly basis), but I'll give this one a pass. Okay, it's because of the lady in yellow, so sue me.

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Also Currently Reading: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. Le Guin For Rosetta Welch

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James Champagne @jamesgchampagne.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Currently Reading: THEATRE OF THE WORLD by Frances A. Yates

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