Author: Jonathan Kieran
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I Promised and Now I Deliver!
Yesterday, I displayed my latest instance of apophenia mania and promised to show you where it would lead. Behold! I have gone and DONE it. Where, oh WHERE do fantasy-writers-who-also-illustrate get their ideas? From many sources, my friends. Many and…
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Apropos of Nothing
I am one of those strange souls who was cursed (or blessed 🤔) from birth with an extreme case of pareidolia—a type of apophenia wherein the mind (and eye) sees coherent images in otherwise random, mundane, or even chaotic visual…
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Chamber Music for Misanthropes
While on my present sabbatical from writing new material, I decided to take-up one of my usual pastimes, again: voracious reading. The past two weeks have found me perusing The Sixteen Satires by Second Century Roman rhetorician, Juvenal. The translation…
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Another Peek at the “Process”
Well, it’s still too hot in northern California to open my woodworking shop for the season, so back to the drawing table I went. This large piece (11” x 14” on Bristol) is intended to be a promo illustration for…
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Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here (2012-2026)
AND ONE MORE SHADOWPYX TALE COMING BEFORE HALLOWEEN … Not a bad assemblage, if I do say so myself. ——————— [ THE WEDNESDAY BOX, a dark fable by Jonathan Kieran, along with titles from his exciting new ShadowPyx Short Story Collection,…
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Zanzibar Circus Interlude
One of my favorite old panels. I know what it signifies, but interpret this as you see fit. 😄 ————— [ THE WEDNESDAY BOX, a dark fable by Jonathan Kieran, along with titles from his exciting new ShadowPyx Short Story Collection,…
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We Have Paperback Liftoff
THAT did not take long. The paperback edition of THE BAPHOMET GLASS is now available on Amazon everywhere. Wow, this one is like an eerie, wistful brush of creeping fingers against your brain in the deep dark of the night.…
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My New ShadowPyx Book Release on Amazon Kindle!
A storm carries an omen of disobedience. An abandoned treehouse conceals an eldritch magic. A cruel twist of fate is unforeseen … or is it? Enter the enchanted world of my ShadowPyx Collection, where curses linger, magic runs deep, and…
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Pull Up a Chair!
Join the festivities! You can have as many glasses of champagne as you like but if you go after my steak, you just might pull back a bloody stump. It feels so weird being on a little sabbatical from writing…
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Into the Woods
Keep in mind that TWO more books are about to drop in the coming few weeks—a thoroughly creepy novella and a knee-slapping fantasy short story—but I am on a writing sabbatical until at least next year. The brain needs rest!…
