Orthodox Arts Festival

The semi-annual event was held recently in Carrollton, TX at Ss. Constantine and Helen Orthodox Church.

Richard Rohlin (now Deacon Seraphim) spoke on “Writing Fiction as an Orthodox Christian” and Joshua Alan Sturgill, the author of Now A Major Motion Picture, spoke on “The Art of Imitating Heaven” (why Moderns must return to stargazing). The featured speaker was Jonathan Pageau, discussing the importance of making beautiful art from and for a transcendent perspective. The festival featured food vendors, iconographers, local merchants and of course, Eighth Day Books. Saturday evening, the speakers gathered to answer attendees’ questions about art, spiritual life, recommended reading, music and living metaphysically in American culture.

Books from Darkly Bright Press were front and center at the Eighth Day table, right next to Tolkien and Lewis – including the newest publication, At a Man’s Table by Arthur Machen. The bookstore still has a few copies left of Rohlin’s Akboritha.

NEW POETRY

Definition Drift by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Francisco Goya, The Colossus by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Sacred Turnip: In the Hebrew story man eats the forbidden fruit and loses Paradise; in the Welsh story the heroes open the door that looks on Cornwall and are bereft of the magic joys that the Venerable Head has given them.

NEW POETRY

Nelumbo by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

The Domestic Hun: In “Martin Schuler” they eat duck and green peas with a sauce made of oysters, apricots, and Moselle. From that dish to the assassination of whole communities the descent is slight and easy.

At A Man’s Table can be ordered here.

NEW POETRY

The Measurement Problem by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Quicker Than Thought: Admirers of Machen’s horror classic, The Great God Pan, will find this dispatch particularly interesting. 

Preorders are now being accepted for the softcover version of AT A MAN’S TABLE by Arthur Machen. This edition is limited to 100 copies.

NEW POETRY

As With A Garment by Joshua Alan Sturgill

St. George and the Dragon by Arthur Machen: On the twenty-third of this month of April, we keep the feast-day of our Patron Saint—St. George for Merry England.

SACRAMENTAL POETRY

A new poem by Phillip Neal Tippin: Sacramental Epigenetics

Holy Wednesday by Joshua Alan Sturgill

Praise Him with Clashing Symbols by Jesse Keith Butler

Holy Monday & Lamentations by Mark Mosley

Jacob and Esau by Thomas Barton

Let Him Have Dominion by Rafael Pereira Bianchin

Panagia by Fr. Anthony Gilbert

Saviour by Benjamin Rozonoyer

THE WEEKLY MACHEN … 
will return on Thursday, May 1. For now, enjoy Where Are the Fogs of Yesteryears? by Arthur Machen.

NEW POETRY

Night Shift by Fr. Ryan Bishop

22(LXX) by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

London’s Tree Tyrant: The London tree is a sad object in autumn. I was observing the trees of the streets yesterday, under dismal conditions of a wet afternoon, and I am bound to say that the general aspect of misery was made more miserable by the sad leaves that dripped on the wet pavements.

ARTHUR MACHEN MAILING LIST

All copies of At a Man’s Table have been sold. I appreciate the support and enthusiasm over the project. In the coming months, I will be issuing a limited softcover edition. If you are interested in receiving notifications on future Machen collections—there are three volumes in active development—please sign up to the growing Arthur Machen mailing list. To do so, please send an email expressing your interest: info (at) darklybrightpress (dot) com.

LOW STOCK

The Terror: Limited Critical Edition:  Only one numbered copy is available.

For each of the following hardcover books, only ten copies (or less) are available:

A Reader of Curious Books

Dreamt in Fire: The Dreadful Ecstasy of Arthur Machen

Mist and Mystery

UPDATE: A handful of copies of the limited hardcover edition of At a Man’s Table are available from Eighth Day Books.

Weekly Updates will resume on Thursday, April 10.

NEW POETRY

Bypassing Archangels by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Machen ventures onto dangerous ground with Dishevelled Children.

NEW POETRY

Thoughts and Words by Joshua Alan Sturgill

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

A Real Roly-Poly Pudding: In the true jam roll or—to call it by its honest old name—roly-poly pudding, the jam is an essential part of the whole, like the ornament in Gothic architecture. It has its place between each encircling roll of suet crust; it is cooked with the crust; it bubbles out rejoicing from the folds of crust when the knife touches it. This is the roly-poly pudding that helped to make us Britons and gave us the might to beat Boney down.

THE WEEKLY MACHEN

Clotted Nonsense: If the German be such a fool as to think his language the criterion of all other languages, and, in a sense, the only language, he may well conceive German morality to be the only morality. And thus he may easily arrive at the conclusion that it is pious to bomb Margate, but infamous to bomb Mannheim.