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“Boy, was I wrong. Very Wrong.”

June 22, 2022 Heathenry

As published in Armageddon 2419 A.D. (Heathen Edition):  Like most kids of the 80s, my introduction to Buck Rogers was network reruns of the short-lived television show. But it was too late: I had been introduced to Star Wars, so all other sci-fi of the time simply paled in comparison. Buck Rogers was not Luke…

“Florence Scoville Shinn was a badass.”

June 20, 2022 Heathenry

As published in The Game of Life and How to Play It (Heathen Edition):  Florence Scovel Shinn was a badass. Hold on, we’ll prove it. In his book William Glackens and the Eight, William’s son Ira gives us, most certainly, the best biographical sketch of Shinn currently available, telling us that Flossie (as her friends…

“…everyone is important, eternal, divine.”

June 19, 2022 Heathenry

As published in Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth (Heathen Edition):   Of all the Heathen Editions that we have published so far in our brief existence, this introduction (as it were) has been the most difficult to write because this book has stirred so much within me, and at a time when I…

“Yours for the Revolution”

June 19, 2022 Heathenry

As published in War of the Classes (Heathen Edition):  So strongly about socialism did Jack London feel that he would sign his letters “Yours for the Revolution.” Think about that for a second. Let it sink in. Imagine receiving an e-mail from someone today signed “Yours for the Revolution.” Or maybe you just received one…

“Comma, comma, comma, cheese and rice!”

June 19, 2022 Heathenry

As published in The House on the Borderland (Second Heathen Edition):  Welcome to our Second Edition of The House on the Borderland. After recently revisiting our first edition of The King in Yellow and deciding that it was in desperate need of an overhaul, I decided that I would revisit all of our earlier books…

Let Us Preface or: How We Began

June 19, 2022 Heathenry

As published in The King in Yellow (First Heathen Edition):  What is a Heathen Edition? And why are you holding reading about one now? It happened like this: True Detective. Right? To how many people did that show introduce The King in Yellow? Its resurgence in 2014 points to one figure: a lot. Myself included….