We are proud to present the second online presentation of our book «Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective ", which will air tomorrow evening at 21.30pm on the YouTube channel of the friends of La Società dello Zolfo.
The Sulfur Society
is pleased to present the new column on the latest releases in the bookstore:
THE NINTH DOOR
Many of us have been trained on the great classics of esoteric thought and on the publications of renowned experts and researchers in their fields of investigation. That certainty we have towards already famous academics begins to waver when we approach recent editorial works, written by authors known, for the moment, only in strictly specialized fields. For this reason we have decided to introduce to your attention contemporary publications that we consider worthy of interest and curiosity, in this specific case related to issues concerning esotericism and occult sciences, areas of our work of cultural dissemination.
The first episode was born in collaboration with
AXIS world
and the book we are going to present is:
CARCOSA UNVEILEDA
Notes for an esoteric reading of T
This is an essay by Marco Maculotti, founder and curator of AXIS mundi, on the first season of the TV series T, by Nic Pizzolatto. The work, divided into three macro-sections and a total of thirteen chapters, aims to dissect the themes and esoteric perspectives of the serial, referring now to ancient traditions and "pagan" rituals, now to the literature of the fantastic and horror supernatural, now to the "cosmic pessimism" of Thomas Ligotti, whose essay The conspiracy against the human race is to be considered, by explicit admission of the director, as the greatest inspiration for the genesis of the series. The book is published by Mimesis Edizioni.
Speaker:
MARCO MACULOTTI, publisher and writer, was born in Cremona in 1988 and graduated in Milan. He is the founder and director of "AXIS mundi" (www.axismundi.blog): online magazine of culture, anthropology of the sacred, history of religions, esotericism, folklore, literature of the fantastic. He has published in various journals of traditional and literary studies, both paper (“Atrium”, “Arthos”, “Lovecraftian Studies”, “Zothique”, “Dimensione Cosmica”, “Il Corriere Metapolitico”), and digital. Lately he has focused on the work of the Welsh writer Arthur Machen, publishing three essays: The Fair Ones, Atavism and "Protoplasmic Regression": Arthur Machen's Panic Mythopoiesis (In Beyond the real, GOG Editions, 2020), The fairies, the witches and the door to the Other World: folkloric and ethnographic reliefs on the work of Arthur Machen (in "Zothique. Magazine of fiction and fantastic culture", n. 4/2020) e Arthur Machen, Advent Prophet of the Great God Pan (In Arthur Machen. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Bietti Editions, 2020). In his spare time he delights in writing supernatural horror stories, two of which, Annex to the will of Ölver Huldurr McGrain e Tumpek Wayang, were published in anthologies respectively A penny from hell (SensoInverso Edizioni, 2017) and Looks into the Unknown. Decameron of the Mystery (Bietti Editions, 2020). A third story, The Iceman, received the special mention of the prestigious “Hypnos Award 2020”.
