Alembic Valise

Welcome to the Dystopian Present!

My process began with the Alembic Valise, which follows fantasy writer, Joel Barlow, whose bestselling novel lands him in hot water with the real-live progenitors of chaos, who see too many similarities between themselves and their fictional counterparts described in the dystopian world of his book. With this the writer achieves a growing understanding that his storytelling goes beyond imagination and that he has the gift of prescience and prophecy. He is jolted out of his Thames-side idyll when a corpse is found on the river’s edge close to his houseboat. This seemingly random tragedy triggers a descent into a world of augmented reality, women’s cage fighting, and psychotic gamers.

At first Joel’s journey to the nightside seems to mirror his fictional creation, until his glimpses, through the dark prism of his own personal drama, the twisted threads of this vast conspiracy. And it is at this point that Joel realises he must use his gifts as a writer to create a narrative so powerful that it can begin to hollow out the edifice of this corrupt power structure.

The next installment is Chaos Magic wherein the sinister cult at the root of the vast conspiracy to enslave mankind (known variously as The Blake Organisation, The Black Snake Cult, The Brotherhood of the Serpent, or simply the Dark Brethren) is seen to have created the Vertical Abyss in order to expedite their plan on a truly global scale by the use of a modern hybrid of Voodoo, sexual vampirism and good old mumbo-jumbo – unfortunately it seems to be working brilliantly.

Chaos Magic is soon to be followed by Dieucifer Rising.