Lord of Chaos

Daniel Beauregard

2023

Lord of Chaos deconstructs reality as we know it, breaking apart our traditional perceptions, casting them into the transient void. Its influences range far and wide, from bleak nihilistic black metal to Beckett, Cotard’s syndrome to Capgras delusion, Ovid’s exile to the Black Sea, Cartesian questioning, and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

Less a novel and more a testament to the absolute veracity of the world as it exists from within the eyes of the mislabeled pariahs—society’s untouchables; a hallucinogenic and terrifying journey through the world of those who see through the veiled mists of the mundane.

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"This is a stellar book for those looking for a poetic-philosophical challenge and a surrealist playdate." -- Josh Massey

"This book can be read as a climate change novel for human readers. We have now reached the ultimate topography of what language can achieve." -- Kenji Siratori

"Philosophical and psychedelic, this text looks into the void and records everything that echoes back to us." -- Jesi Bender

ISBN 978-1-7397708-8-4 // also available via retailers inc. Barnes & Noble, Blackwells, Waterstones, Foyles, // Launch video // excerpt on Diffractions