CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Books
Books at Catastrophe Ballet follows the Gothic, Decadent, existentialist and underground literary canon, alongside dark science fiction — from Poe and Baudelaire to Burroughs and Ballard. Coverage tracks new releases, reviews and essays from independent presses and literary journals working the same shadowed territory.
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
Books I’m Excited for in 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)
Review of The Villa, Once Beloved—Filipino Gothic
Review of Wolf Worm—Entomological Horror
Review of The Red Winter—Werewolves in Revolutionary France
Race and Regionalism: ‘Drenched in Light’
Guest Post: ‘Geek Love’, An Intimate Portrait of a Nuclear Family
Southern Gothic Foundations: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
Review of Morsel—Anti-Capitalist Folk Horror
