ACCURSED COSMOS
From the introduction to Accursed Cosmos: A Selected Bibliography of Cult Author Fiada Fey:
There is a kind of perverse magic to the fiction of Fiada Fey (1980-2008). The St. Paul, Minn.-based author had an odd gift for depicting the world in disembodied, not always decipherable, and almost always ominous ways. He wrote stories about, among many seemingly disparate things, hideous pony corpses at an eldritch petting zoo run by Satan worshippers; soul-sick NASA astronauts afflicted with alien venereal disease; depraved narcotics parties hosted by demons in the bowels of hell; an omniscient godlike computer supposedly evolved from pinball machines; a monstrous drug-deranged poet dedicated to the destruction of mankind and the overthrow of God himself who leaves footprints of blood wherever he goes. Fey also took as subjects living and dead figures, and events and places, in the public sphere: doomed space missions; government UFO secrecy; abandoned nuclear-missile silos; grisly true-crime accounts of occult-related sex murders; urban legends about LSD freakouts, subliminal satanic messages in Saturday morning cartoons, beautiful honors students lured into the dark world of sex for hire by the sinister cabal of super-elite conspirators who run the world. And whether he is dealing with the inhabitants of a jerkwater planet in a distant star cluster bombarded by errant radioactive laser-ray blasts from an interstellar war in the fading days of a galactic empire or alleged governmental testing of psychedelic mind-control weapons on civilian populations during the Cold War, Fey’s effect is roughly the same: The reader, sometimes years later, will wonder where that sudden psychic blast of strange phantasmagoric nightmare images is coming from. Like it or not, the stewing vortex of hectically imagistic hellfire horrors Fey conjures tends to linger. Caveat lector.
Accursed Cosmos is an 8-page, 8.5 x 11-inch xeroxed zine published by Furtive Labors, June 2010.
