To Rouse Leviathan appears to have aroused a lot of interest among horror readers, judging from the response on social media and elsewhere. Richard Gavin, one of the contemporary masters of weird and occult/esoteric horror, says the following: Matt Cardin is one of the most vital figures in 21st-century Horror. Whether he is penning visionary…
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Forthcoming from Richard Gavin: ‘The Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul’
Teem member Richard Gavin has a new book coming out this summer from Theion Publishing — and it’s nonfiction. Richard, as you know, has built a major reputation in recent years as a writer of exquisite weird fiction in a darkly esoteric and philosophical vein, and this book promises to be a kind of nonfiction…
Publishers Weekly praises Richard Gavin’s ‘At Fear’s Altar’
We’re very pleased to see that At Fear’s Altar, the numinous horror collection by our own Richard Gavin, has received an excellent review from Publishers Weekly. A couple of months ago we passed along some strong praise from other reviewers. Now PW has this to say about the book: Literate horror fans who have yet…
Positive reviews of AT FEAR’S ALTAR by Teeming Brain contributor Richard Gavin
Teeming Brain columnist Richard Gavin (Echoes from Hades) recently received two excellent reviews for his new book At Fear’s Altar (Hippocampus Press, 2012). At Speculative Fiction Junkie, reviewer Ben writes, At Fearâs Altar is an impressive collection, as impressive as what Iâve come to expect from Mr. Gavin. While it does not contain as many…
Richard Gavin on Dark Awakenings
My friend Richard Gavin, the talented author of Omens (which I praised in a review for Dead Reckonings) and The Darkly Splendid Realm (which is drawing praise from all quarters), has written an enthusuastic review of my Dark Awakenings. A couple of pertinent excerpts: To be genuinely inspired by a work of Horror is a…