Marco Maculotti – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Apollo, Angel of the Abyss (Giovanni Sessa, «The Borghese»)

Published on: January 18 2023 Last updated on: April 25 2023 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Mito, Guests Book, History of Religions

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Direct video: «From the King in Yellow to“ True Detective ”. Special "Carcosa unveiled" "

Published on: May 12, 2021 Last updated on: May 14, 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Press releases and updates, Esotericism, Events, Video

Tomorrow evening, Thursday 13 May, at 21 pm, the fourth official presentation of the book “Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective ”, released in February by Mimesis.

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In the dark meanders of Carcosa

Published on: April 17 2021 Last updated on: April 17 2021 Written by: Lorenzo Pennacchi Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Mito, Guests Book, History of Religions

Il new essay by Marco Maculotti, published by Mimesis, allows you to cross the threshold of the lost city, to orient yourself among the symbols and references hidden behind the first season of “True Detective”.

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Arthur Machen and the panic charm of the uncanny

Published on: August 24 2020 Last updated on: April 27 2022 Written by: Lorenzo Pennacchi Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Publications

The new special issue of zothique, magazine of fantastic and "weird" literature published by Dagon Press, in its over 230 pages allows us to retrace the life and work of Arthur Machen, a Welsh writer who between the end of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth was able to look beyond the "veil of reality" and reveal the essence of "Great God Pan“, Establishing himself as one of the greatest authors of supernatural fiction of his time.

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“Beyond the Real”, or of the literary dignity of the Fantastic

Published on: May 21, 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Marco Pelagatti Categorized into: Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Guests Book

Fantastic literature is still barely regarded by too many as paraliterature; "Beyond the Real", the new volume published by GOG edizioni helps us to affirm the opposite, analyzing the work of five of the most important authors of the genre from the end of the XNUMXth century to today: Lovecraft, Machen, Meyrink, Tolkien and Ashton Smith.

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“Beyond the Real”: for a Metaphysics of the Fantastic

Published on: April 23 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Claudia Stanghellini Categorized into: Italian Literature, Mito, Guests Book

That of narration was born as a profoundly sacred practice: in narrating and narrating the world, man continually recreates and re-establishes it, since “he no longer lives in a purely physical universe, but in a symbolic universe. Language, myth, art and religion are part of this universe, they are the threads that make up the symbolic fabric, the tangled web of human experience ". The narration thus soon becomes the key to the innumerable doors of the Mystery, to a relationship between different yet authentically real dimensions.

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"The Age of the Serpent": "The snake and the dragon: morphology of the ophidic symbolism"

Published on: June 9 2019 Last updated on: June 9 2019 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Press releases and updates, Publications

Era of the Serpent, second annual publication and seventh total of Italian Sword & Sorcery Book, is on sale in digital format for € 3,30, with our 40-page essay (40.000+ characters) "The snake and the dragon: morphology of ophidic symbolism", as well as an unpublished story by Andrea Gualchierotti and an essay by Francesco La Manno

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