The Smol Bear Review
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LE FANTASTIQUE: A Literary Tribute to Clive Barker
A NOCTURNICORN BOOKS release
Smol Bear N Pickles present
THE GATES OF MIDIAN OPEN AGAIN.
This year, an impossible book enters the world.
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The Kandy Fontaine Show — Friday, August 21st, 2026 Alex S. Johnson in conversation with Leila Abdul‑Rauf
This Friday, August 21st, The Kandy Fontaine Show enters deeper waters with Leila Abdul‑Rauf — the Bay Area multi‑instrumentalist, composer, and co‑founder of Vastum whose solo work moves through dark‑ambient, ritual electronics, and the ha...
Announcement: August 3rd — Dr. Lois Lee on The Kandy Fontaine Show
On August 3rd, I’ll be interviewing Dr. Lois Lee on The Kandy Fontaine Show, and because this conversation touches a lineage that has shaped my work for decades, I want to be very clear about who we all are, what we’ve done, and why th...
Burner: Motorhead in the Flesh — A Field Report from the Inferno Era Part One
Motorhead’s saga, already carved deep into the granite of rock and roll history, has taken on a more elegiac dimension in recent years, as if the band’s mythic roar has been gradually absorbed into the atmosphere by the deaths of...
Martin Popoff Joins Iconic Black Sabbath Literary Tribute!!!
HAND OF DOOM: A Literary Tribute to Black Sabbath THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
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Alex S. Johnson is an investigative journalist, dark fiction author, poet, artist, songwriter and film-maker based in Carmichael, California.
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