Like its precursor, The Light is Alone, Malingerer is what might be called a discursive inverted cross.
On one level, it aims to exhibit various manifestations of Satanic practice because, quite simply, the latter's representation in the horror genre offers a perverse but delectable pleasure; the liminality of horror always entails an element of fun.
And yet the collection is also devoted to perpetrating a kind of violence against those evils that are distinctly unpleasant, spec.
Zagava Books Malingerer, paperback/thomas phillips
