Vitskär Süden Los Angeles, California
“Gorgeous and sinister. Shoots images into my brain of blacklight posters of secret rites in lost, desecrated valleys
performed while some bastard '70s metal band croons a sword & sorcery drug rock accompaniment naming, song-by-song, a terrible thing that should remain nameless.”
—Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
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