Where have you been all my life?

It is a tragedy that I did not discover this man sooner. I’ve seen his most popular work referenced all over the web since I was about 12, but never thought anything of it really. Over the last few weeks I’d become more engrossed in his mythos and lore.

A few days ago I found myself adjacent a bookstore. They’re all over the state, but goddamnit, it was destiny. From what I had read about the guy, I had no idea where to look. Fiction & Literature? Science Fiction & Fantasy? Horror? But I eventually found a book, and read the first line in the first story:

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.”

Fuck YES. (Literally, my initial reaction)

“Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”

Sixteen bucks later and this book was mine. I’m beginning to understand the ravenous following he has amassed, and I would very much enjoy one day taking my place among them.

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