Writing

Fiction

FALLEN NATION: Party At The World's End

$16.99 A5 paperback
$2.99 eBook
Fallen Nation: Party At The World’s End is a mad ride past the event horizon of sanity with a group of young, escaped mental patients that come to realize—or believe—that they are demigods.
They form Babylon, a band that captures the spirit of the age as sex, drugs, and chaos reign in the final years of the American Empire.
This is the beginning of a modern mythology that spills off the page: the ticket to the Party At The World's End is inside, if you dare to search for it. It starts right here, but it won't end here—
An urban fantasy novel, order it now as an eBook or paperback.


CITIZEN Y: The Blueprint of a Ritual Experience

$15.00 Royal paperback
Citizen Y is a script and ritual blueprint written by John Harrigan and James Curcio. Available late June 2011 by Weaponized press.
There is a secret that haunts Haze01, the original treatment facility. Two patients, locked deep within its walls, contain archetypes that reject all reprogramming. They channel portents and omens of another future, a world where myth and divinity remake reality, manifesting a planet fit for Gods.In this season of the Y show, the doctors of the facility make their final attempt to process these two patients, before they break free and unleash total anarchy. Tune in.

Order paperback with black and white concept art and deleted scenes.


404 Documents

$8.88 A5 paperback
$2.99 eBook
Adam Jones was living the life: good job, sweet girlfriend (a redhead to boot), car, house. But in just one year, he will be incarcerated for participation in a vast terrorist conspiracy.
It all started with Bradley the Buyer, calling him from the annals of their sordid past. Bradley, a first-rate freak and self-proclaimed criminal mastermind. Maybe it was boredom or curiosity, but he took the call.
Soon, Adam is doing "Ops" with his psychotic friend. When a reality prank goes too far, he tries to get out. But it is already too late. There is no way out but through.
By the end, he finds out how deep the rabbit-hole goes, but not before sacrificing his body, soul, and his cozy suburban dream in the process.
Written off the headlines, this modern myth blurs the lines between fiction and reality.

A conspiracy novella from the Fallen Nation world.

Nyssa


$.99 unillustrated eBook
$3.99 illustrated eBook
$10 print
A dark modern fairy tale. Featuring unique spins on old tropes like vampires, nymphs, satyrs, and the krampus.







JOIN MY CULT!


A novel published in 2004 by the original New Falcon press, publisher
of Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley, and many other counter-culture figures. Religions. Philosophies. Advertising campaigns. Gurus. Prozac. All of these drugs are sold as answers to our deepest questions: Why are we here? What truly has meaning?
For a group of adolescents desperately searching for meaning in the bleak McMansion sprawls of Suburban America, these questions are of the essence. When none of the accepted avenues of thought or behavior make sense any longer, they wander into an unknown territory of magick, drug use, and shamanic exploration.

non-fiction


Immanence of Myth

Immanence of Myth
$30 A4 (oversize) paperback

Myth's central importance does not end with our art or religions. It is not solely a dusty world of broken clay pots and tablets written in dead languages. Our myths determine how we engage with the world, how we enter into it. How we treat ourselves and one another. Far from being archaic relics of the past, myths will determine our future. Even if we are unaware of them, they will continue to affect us.
This anthology explores the subject of immanent myth from many angles, through articles, essays, and interviews from a variety of people actively engaged in mythic work and research. We must invent our myths—or re-invent them—ourselves. If you haven't already, take this as a wake-up call to join in and become a myth-maker of the 21st century.

Apocalyptic Imaginary: Best of Modern Mythology 2011

$18 7"x10" paperback.
This book captures and expands upon the unique commentary and analysis that has helped define the Modern Mythology project in 2011. Through the voices of many contributors, we collectively take a hard look at the blurred lines between narrative and truth, philosophy and literature, personal history and cultural memory. All of this is done with an eye towards the imagined apocalypse that is always just around the corner. Presently in editorial.
  • eBook available on Smashwords. ($2.99) 
  • First edition in print ($18) and kindle ($2.99) formats Jan 2012. 
  • To be featured in curriculum of "the Apocalypse of Love," and "Cutup and In Dividuality," two 200 level philosophy / lit classes at SUNY Binghamton, 2012.

The Nervous Breakdown

Read some of James' essays and non-fiction on the popular literary site The Nervous Breakdown.

Hillbilly Tantra


Essay published in Immanion Press' Magic On The Edge anthology about the basic sexual premises of tantra, framed in a modern way, stripped of religious ideology. (2004)
Read the PDF.

Modern Mythology

The following articles are some of the several hundred James has written for ModernMythology.net

Alterati Selections

The following articles are a few of the several hundred articles James ran during his stint as senior editor for Alterati.com, covering an incredibly broad range of subjects loosely considered under the counter-culture milieu.
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