Frond: 5 books

In the first of these tales, a young lone parent and her children strive unsuccessfully to live their lives free of what chaos magicians call 'consensual reality'. The next two paint a lyrical portrait of corruption and the struggle to survive in ancient civilizations. 'The Grove' is about a dreamy...

Maurice, an idealistic painter, is pulled into an art fraud against his will by a friend. It is the time when Austin Spare was alive, and the premise of this book is that artists had already been painting magical sigils for millennia. So Maurice seeks a solution to his problem through a sigil spell. Meanwhile...

Ryan, a young magician from an English magical lodge, sets himself a test: he will go to the next world to become a psychopomp, and return by a certain time or die in the attempt. He is unprepared for what he encounters: a time tunnel created by an angry soldier, a beautiful but treacherous muse from...

A murdered child tries to contact her mother. A solitary student has lucid dreams, but they trap her in an oppressive forest. In the afterlife, a girl strives to stop sadness pulling her down, and is helped by an unexpected encounter. Batman's niece goes on a quest unlike a superhero comic, full of...

This is a compilation of three chaos magic stories. The first one ‘Eoss and Bidskimmer’ was part of an ambitious servitor project, which was carried out by chaos magicians in an online group. It was the first piece Candy Ray wrote as a chaos magic writer. It is about a servitor and an egregore...