George MacDonald at the Inklings Festival: Registration is open for the upcoming Eighth Day Institute event scheduled for October 21-23, 2022. Geoffrey Reiter and Richard W. Rohlin will be the keynote lecturers. Darkly Bright Press will be there with new publications. Stay tuned for more information.

NEW POETRY

To You The Cursed by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 8 by Phillip Neal Tippin

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Fascination of Crime and Criminals: If you would appreciate the light, you must have some notion of dark, if you would make a child realise what is implied by the term a “straight line” draw one—with a crooked line beside it. … Those who would know to what heights men may rise must know also to what depths they are capable of descending. The saint is to be deduced from a careful observation of the sinner.

NEW POETRY

Observances by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 7 by Phillip Neal Tippin

As The Day Had Just Begun by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Romance of an Old Manuscript: Of course, this may be said: that there are such folks, which have deceived and deceive still. There was a scholar of the Renaissance who maintained that pretty well the whole of classic literature was forged in the middle ages by unscrupulous monks, but I don’t think that anybody believed him. Indeed, the fact is that the task is so difficult that scarcely anyone has even attempted it. …

NEW POETRY

Here And In A Thousand by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 6 by Phillip Neal Tippin

The Hermit Speaks by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

On Going to Brighton by Pullman: And the sun was radiant. I have seldom seen so luminous and splendid a day, and this sunlight shining on the bright red tile roofs, and the bright white plaster of the walls, and the bright green of the trees made a delightful scene. The suburb looked illuminated. At least that is how I put it to myself. A man on the other side of the car said affectionately to his friend “some nice property there”; and I dare say we meant much the same thing.

NEW POETRY

To Them That Go Down by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 5 by Phillip Neal Tippin

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Books of the Week: I often see the phrase “best seller,” and wonder as to the recipe. I am still wondering after having read “A Slack Wire” by Mrs. Marion Hill. …

Within a week of its publication, the limited edition print run of Richard W. Rohlin’s Akboritha has now sold out. Many thanks to all of Richard’s supporters. We are pleased to announce that the softcover version will be re-released in a second impression and will launch at the 2022 Inklings Festival in Wichita this October. Richard, a lecturer for the event, will be available to sign copies. Also, this new impression will be open to international customers.

Personally, I am grateful to Richard for trusting my small, one-man operation with his visionary work. I express apologies for my shortcomings. Special thanks to all lovers of beautiful, physical books, and of storytelling which is grounded in first principles and that which awakens the moral imagination.

Christopher Tompkins
Darkly Bright Press

As of this posting, there remains less than 10 copies of Richard W. Rohlin’s Akboritha for purchase. Both Richard and I are grateful for the show of support, and as a result, we are happy and excited to announce that future projects are being planned. Again, thanks to all of his supporters.

NEW POETRY

Orthodox by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 4 by Phillip Neal Tippin

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The English Language: Is Mr. George Moore right in his gloomy prophecy as to the future of the English language? Interviewed in the Fortnightly, he declares that if English is to have any future—“which I doubt”—it will be in America. “You are still inventing a language while we have stopped…

The Hardcover version of Akboritha is now sold out.

Copies of the Softcover version remain available.

Purchase Richard W. Rohlin’s Akbortha.

NOTE: One copy per customer. This edition available for purchase and shipping in the United States only.

Richard W. Rohlin’s Akboritha will be available for purchase on August 1^st at 2:00 pm MST.

Rohlin’s Introduction Video

An Interview with Richard Rohlin

NEW POETRY

Step Outside by Joshua Alan Sturgill

The Pilgrimage, Book II: Part 3 by Phillip Neal Tippin

Jesse Keith Butler has published a sonnet entitled The Lonesome Blues in the Orchards Poetry Journal. Congratulations!

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Bunyan’s Book: Bunyan tells us by his method that there never was an individual named Christian who left a material city and fell into an actual swamp or slough; and we have every reason to doubt whether a Spaniard who called himself Don Quixote ever lived in a village of La Manche. But all these stories are true—because under a particular symbolism they give us a faithful image of our own souls and their adventures. …

Recently, Richard W. Rohlin, the author of Akboritha, was kind enough to answer a few questions. To watch the interview with transcription, visit its dedicated page.