other writing – michael uhall

Peer-reviewed academic publications are listed here. For occasional writings, see here. I write fiction and nonfiction; see below. I also design and write for Moth Hovel Games, and some of our products can be purchased directly from Exalted Funeral and Emperors of Eternal Evil.

Published fiction

“The Barnacle Goose.” Forthcoming in De Tribus Impostoribus Mundi: Heretical Fragments. Edited by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. Raphus Press, 2027.
“Sustrato.” Penumbria: Antología de cuento fantástico #68: Infestada. 2026.
“Eyes of Flesh, Eyes of Fire.” The Grand Master of Assassins: Stories of the Old Man in the Mountain and His Acolytes. Edited by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. Raphus Press, 2026. Soon to be available in Portuguese, in the volume Demiurgos Sombrios.
The Frost Crabs of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Short novel from Mount Abraxas Press (formerly Ex Occidente Press), 2024. Available from a variety of online vendors (Arcane Offerings, Courtyard Books, Haus Nostromo, Ziesings, …). Reviews: The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews. Forrest for the Trees. Biblioteca Submersa #103. Now available in translation from Mercurio Books (Italian), soon to be available from Raphus Press (Portuguese), and forthcoming in Spanish.

“Hunting a Tyrant.” Mycelia 5 (Summer 2022). Hedera Felix.
“Matsuri.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 4:2 (Fall 2021). Grimscribe Press.
“A Tyranny of Tongues.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 4:1 (Spring 2021). Grimscribe Press. Des Lewis writes in a review: “A complex of story and essay becoming a Swiftian fable if not one of the alternate truths of our times. […] I cannot stress enough the power of some of the words themselves used in this document. Tongues used as horror monsters for a horror story.” The story was also adapted as an independent short film by Secret Haus Productions.
“The Face of Allan Dulles.” Mycelia 3 (Winter 2019/Spring 2020). Hedera Felix. Also available as an independent reading by Mike Ream.
“Notes Toward a Philosophy of Sleep.” In Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman. Edited by Farah Rose Smith. Ulthar Press, 2019. Reviews: Hellnotes.

“The Mad German.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 1:3 (Autumn 2018). Grimscribe Press. Cover art by Aeron Alfrey depicts a central image from the story. Also available as an independent reading by Mike Ream.

- “How to Construct a Gun from Your Own Flesh.” Vastarien: A Literary Journal 1:1 (Spring 2018). Grimscribe Press. Also available as a podcast from PSEUDOPOD and as an independent reading by Mike Ream.

Published nonfiction

- “Original sin and its photocopies: K. W. Jeter and theodicy.” WIP.
- “‘The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals’: William S. Burroughs and normative political theory.” WIP.
- “Technically meat: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Tecnicamenta dolce and the Italian cannibal film.” WIP.
- “Gift of the gun: Zardoz and the origins of civilization.” WIP.
- “Stone pterodactyls: Alistair Rennie, K. J. Bishop, and the afterlife of the New Weird.” WIP.
- “Fossilized process: Simondon and the the metaphysics of stupidity.” WIP.
- “The last (Florida) men: Miami Vice and political stupidity.” WIP.
- “What is stupidity?: insights from Bayes and Bergson.” WIP.
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood’s Miami Vice: Remix (2015).” WIP.
- “Emiliano González (1955-2021) and the Mexican Weird.” Forthcoming from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism. Hippocampus Press.
- “Warfare modulation: atmospheric violence from Sebald to Sama’ Abdulhadi.” boundary 2 online (August 2026).
- “Political theory needs the alien (and vice versa).” Limina 3:1 (July 2026).
- “Logics of desire in search of an exit: on Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman (2013).” Vault of Culture (April 2026).
- “The left hand of all creation: how to repurpose whole worlds (Part 3).” DIFFRACTIONS (November 2025).
- “The left hand of all creation: how to repurpose whole worlds (Part 2).” DIFFRACTIONS (November 2025).
- “The left hand of all creation: how to repurpose whole worlds (Part 1).” DIFFRACTIONS (November 2025).
- “Lovecraft in Mexico.” Lovecraft Annual: New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft (August 2025).
- “Nightmare green: Cannibal Holocaust as theory-fiction.” Ancillary Review of Books (December 2024).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Bret Easton Ellis’ Glamorama (1998).” Utopia District (November 2024).
- “Wars of the Lord: here’s the DRILL by Scott R. Jones.” 3:AM Magazine (June 2024).
- “Spirals of reason: the inhuman vitalism of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.” Gothic Nature (June 2024).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: J. G. Ballard’s Vermilion Sands (1971).” Utopia District (January 2024).
- “Cybergothic human typewriter: Kenji Siratori’s chronotopologies.” 3:AM Magazine (December 2023).
- “Vaporwave Megatext: Simon Sellars’ Code Beast (2023).” Utopia District (September 2023).
- “Geopolitics and marriage: on Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981).” Vault of Culture (September 2023).
- “COLD_FUTURES.EXE and the Virtual Exodus™.” Utopia District (April 2023).
- “A specter, a speaker: on ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You’ (1968).” Vault of Culture (January 2022).
- “Toxic love in ‘Beyond the Aquila Rift’.” Vault of Culture (September 2021).
- “Dark anthropocentrism.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (June 2021).
- “Gray sky thinking: John Boyd’s entropy machine.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (March 2021).
- “Hegalien: on H. R. Giger’s Hegel.” Alienist IX (December 2020): 93-100.
- “Existentially weighted time decay: speculative fragmentation and political immunology.” Diffractions Collective (November 2020).
- “Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Introduction to gray sky thinking.” SYNTHETIC ZERØ (October 2020).
- “Occupy Kant: remarks on racism and liberalism.” Kritik (September 2020).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: the posthuman question in Alien: Covenant (2017).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: astronoetic pessimism in Prometheus (2012).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Interstellar (2014).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Gravity (2013).” Vault of Culture (May 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: Contact (1997).” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Astronoetic Cinema: an introduction.” Vault of Culture (April 2019).
- “Salvaging the feral.” Kritik (September 2018).
- “From extinction: nine strategies for a left-hand exit.” Environmental Critique (June 2018).
- “Living with biopolitical nightmares.” Kritik (October 2017).
- “The roots of creative darkness.” Environmental Critique (April 2017).
- “Foucault and the necropolitics of reproduction.” Kritik (October 2016).
- “Cosmopolitics and Area X: on Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation.” Environmental Critique (February 2016).

Published translations

- Emiliano González – “Devourer of Planets” (1989). From Spanish. Forthcoming from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism. Hippocampus Press.
- Emiliano González – “The Legacy of Cthulhu” (1978). From Spanish. Forthcoming from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism. Hippocampus Press.
- Hans Blumenberg – “Anticipation of Spaceflight as Metaphor” (1997). From German. Gray Sky Thinking (2026).
- Guillermo Samperio – “Borges, Escher, Lovecraft” (2006). From Spanish. Lovecraft Annual: New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft 19 (2025). Hippocampus Press.

Unpublished translations

- Emiliano González – “Rudisbroeck o los autómatas” (1978)
- Michelangelo Antonioni – Tecnicamenta dolce (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1976)
- Ludwig Klages – “Mensch und Erde” (1913)
- F. W. J. Schelling – miscellaneous letters following the death of Caroline Schelling in 1809
- Dominique Auffret – excerpts from Alexandre Kojève: La philosophie, l’état, la fin de l’histoire (1990)
- Alexandre Kojève – previously untranslated passages from the Introduction à la lecture de Hegel (1930s/1947)
- Sylvain Lazarus – excerpts from Anthropologie du nom (1997)
- Alain Badiou – D’un désastre obscur (1991)