What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables!​
(Orlando, Virginia Woolf)  

Following a kind of mission at Raphus Press, we present the third volume of cosmic and tenebrous poetry from the dark, intense and superb Wade German, entitled Phantasmagorias.  It is an illustrated, bilingual (English and Portuguese) book in vivid color, centered on ancestral and cosmic horrors, pagan heresies, and mystical projections of the mind beyond death. A rare bouquet for our readers' tastes.  The book is accompanied by a votive image, our ex-voto creation, with an essential image for the invocations carried out at home to everyday familiar demons.

Phantasmagorias, a bilingual collection of poems by Wade German. Special format (5.11 x 7.4 in.), 66 pages, hard cover, printed by Forma Certa, designed at Raphus Press Immanent Headquarters. Limited to 77 copies. Fully illustrated. With an ex-voto mini-poster/postcard/votive image, exclusive and limited as well. 

It will be available in ten days at Ziesings Books and Within Things for International distribution (except Brazil).

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The opinion of our readers

Golden Age of Clairvoyance

"Well I have received the books today and I had certain high expectations and I must say such high expectations were well exceeded. The selectivity of the authors as I may have mentioned before (both individually and in combination) and translations are impeccable. The book design is exquisite and enhances the holistic reading experience (by way of comparison, on first seeing the books I had the same sense of elation when I had received my first Sylph Edition Cahiers a few years ago)."
(Andrew Condous)

"The books look really nice - I'm especially liking the full-color images inside. Very good design."
(Damian Murphy)

"The chapbooks are beautiful. Well done! Equally engaging for the eye and mind."
(Rachel Kinbar)

 "The initial print-run of all three is, of course, low, so any interested readers should make a quick decision; because I do hope Raphus continue on their path of intriguing little translations of the recovered uncanny and esoteric."
​(Mark Andresen at Pan Review)

The great weird and fantastic connoisseur, Des Lewis, made an insightful review of Black Mirror, the second chapbook in the series, available in this link.

Spiritual Meaning of the Massacres

"​Many thanks for sending me a copy of The Mendicant. It really looks rather good – a bit like one of the books you read about in short stories that start off ‘Beware if you read these words... too late!"
(Stephen Cashmore)

"It's a marvelous production, and it's great that you have resurrected the remarkable title piece. I also enjoyed the pamphlet (...). Long may Raphus Press reign!"
(Chris Mikul)

"I am absolutely delighted with them [The Mendicant of the Books and The Sacred Abysmal Perspective]!  They are both true examples of true and original creative philosophical ingenuity, originality and also design. They are fantastickal chapbooks and it is an equal delight to have been able to contribute and to assist in other ways. Although I saw the proofed editions when you e-mailed them to me, now that they are in my hands, they veritably glow and crackle and weep with their malign embers. 

I shall take myself off on a sacred journey this weekend, like the early priests going to Tibet, and will immerse myself in the deep folds and ravines these chapbooks open up."
​(Jonathan Wood)