Spiritus Ex Machina

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Art and science were not always pitted against each other: they were once perceived as two sides of the same great and terrible coin. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Spiritus Ex Machina</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> the debut collection from author LC von Hessen explores this duality of creation in 14 stories following an introduction by Michael Cisco (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Divinity Student Antisocieties Weird Fiction: A Genre Study</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>).</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Within this collection painters photographers dancers doctors scholars engineers occultists bureaucrats plutocrats restaurateurs pro-dommes mad scientists and various hapless folk all become embroiled in the Unknowable. From 18th-century French salon to contemporary Brooklyn apartment from traveling carnival to libertine nightclub to body-horror laboratory explore the dark side of the creative urge among phantasmic machines dubiously ethical biomedical experiments unsettling art installations and a discomforting array of Uncanny Valley denizens. Become a human worm traverse the dreams of an automaton perform necromancy through antique film reels join a secret society in the bowels of a Gilded Age factory-and remember to never ever trust a face.</span></p>