MARTIN POPOFF "Flaming Telepaths: Imaginos Expanded And Specified" [BOOK]
2025 -
Detailed Description
In 1967, a now deceased prophet known as Memphis Sam-H.P. Lovecraft reincarnated-wrote the rough outline of a cryptid-encrypted tall tale purported to explain the occult origins of World War I. Five years later, a band called Blue Oyster Cult would begin disseminating pieces of the story across their albums, with the biggest data dump coming in 1988, on a record of theirs called Imaginos. This book proposes, as the title suggests, an "expanded and specified" deep tissue massage of Sandy Pearlman's crypto-wordology, with the author performing, as a mason would, the slathering of mortar between the bricks of the castle-keep that Pearlman built for the band he managed to great fame, most notably with Agents of Fortune en route to Fire of Unknown Origin, an alchemically charged grimoire much like the book with which you are absurdly about to interact. Come dance the dance of time, as "modified child" Imaginos shape-shifts his way through the 1800s toward the Great War, slashing and shredding the psychic fabric along the way through a series of possessions including those of Poe, Bierce, Lovecraft, Crowley, Austin Osman Spare and perhaps, as most recklessly speculated by the fevered author, Winston Churchill.Also included are 39 pencil illustrations, two of which can be seen in Albert
Bouchard's lyric video for the song "Blue
Oyster Cult" and one in the lyric video for "Black Telescope." There are also
the following appendices:
Appendix 1: 1919 - 2020
Appendix 2: An Interview with Albert Bouchard
Appendix 3: "Wild Child Full of Grace:" The Magic Tale of How Imaginos
Incarnated as Jim Morrison and Told Sandy
Pearlman How He Rose from the Sea to Cause World War I
