Richard Gavin

Richard Gavin is a critically-acclaimed author whose work explores the realm where dread and the sublime intersect. His supernatural tales have been published in four previous collections and have been selected for Best New Horror, The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and The Best Horror of the Year. In 2015 he co-edited Penumbrae: An Occult Fiction Anthology. Richard has also published poetry, criticism, and several works of esotericism for Starfire journal and Clavis: Journal of Occult Arts, Letters and Experience. His non-fiction book The Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul, exploring Night Consciousness, was released in 2016. His first major work for Three Hands Press was Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness (2016).

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The Infernal Masque
Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Infernal Masque
The Infernal Masque
Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Infernal Masque

The Infernal Masque explores the vital interplay between primordial darkness and infernal fire. It is the dynamic tension between these two elements that creates the sublime frisson within the flesh and soul of the Initiate, immersing them in the ecstatic tempest of daemonic reality.

Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Infernal Masque
The Benighted Path
Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Benighted Path
The Benighted Path
Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Benighted Path

Twisting beyond the placid boundaries of civilization is an ancient path of nocturnal Gnosis. Its stalkers do not march the linear road of human progress but instead orient their souls to the luminous, haunted darkness of the Night Primeval.

Theion Publishing, Richard Gavin, The Benighted Path
The Moribund Portal
Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy
The Moribund Portal
Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy

Beyond its vulgar function as a means of execution, the Gallows has long served as a source of occult power. From the severed appendage of the thief that becomes the Hand of Glory, to the fallen seed that spawns the mandrake root, the Hanging Place is awash in the sinistral ambiance of ancient sorcery.

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, The Moribund Portal, Necromancy
Sylvan Dread
Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction
Sylvan Dread
Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction

Those who dwell unseen within the hedge, the grotesques emergent in the weave of tangled roots, the writhing form amid the shadows of the Willow boughs—all are keepers of a rustic and terrible wisdom predating the emergence of mankind. Lurching between disembodiment and wholly manifest flesh, the baleful forces of wasteland and rural barren have long been etched upon the human soul.

Three Hands Press, Richard Gavin, Sylvan Dread, Fiction

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