City of Dis

Cosmicism without consolation

City of Dis archive

Stories

Philosophical horror, speculative parables and fictional fragments in which humanity discovers it was never the intended audience.

Published fiction

Eight speculative stories and philosophical parables from an uncentred universe.

Codex 001

The Discipline of Proportion

A first-principles descent through observation, delusion, and the moral hazard of refusing the curve.

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Codex 002

The Pnakotic EuroMillions Oracle

A book of prophecy, probability, lottery numbers, and contractual unpleasantness beyond the dawn of space-time.

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Parable

The Last Priest of a Dead Geometry

A speculative parable about obsolete certainty, sacred geometry and the loneliness of a priest whose cosmos has moved on without him.

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Codex 004

The Thing That Did Not Notice Us

A research group discovers an intelligence so vast that contact fails not through hostility, but because humanity does not register as a relevant category.

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Codex 005

The Crusade Against Death

An alien crusade arrives in Earth orbit seeking the sinners who supposedly brought death into the universe six thousand years ago.

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Codex 006

The Cartography of Hell

A Doctor Who continuation of The Satan Pit, where Time Lord certainty meets older machinery, human belief, and Lovecraftian cosmic indifference.

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Codex 007

The Innsmouth Schism

A turf war between the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the Church of Starry Wisdom becomes an act of ritual manipulation, and beneath Devil Reef both sects discover a door their gods may have feared.

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Codex 008

The Last Generation

The Rapture has been waiting two thousand years for one generation to pass away. Unfortunately, a few inconvenient immortals may still be holding up the Apocalypse.

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Forthcoming

A signal from the next ruin.

Codex 003

Third Silence at Lagrange Five

When a colony discovers that the signal from the void is not a message, but a measurement.