Just, absolutely delirious. Abyss of Hallucinations Volume 2 (2023) builds on the first volume and embraces ever more chaos.

There’s more detail here on what you might find in the hexes of the Abyss, which goes a long way toward making the whole thing feel cohesive (though no less feverish). Significant time is spent on the Skidoo Inn and the concept of anti-puzzles and unsolving, which I understand but also can not quite explain. You need to unsolve a puzzle to leave the Inn and that’s a pretty good teaching tool for how brain-hurty the Abyss is in general. Chaos. Just embrace Chaos.

We also have more creatures, illustrated by the enragingly talented David Hoskins. These entities look obnoxiously good, as if he plucked them from my own subconscious somehow and put them in this book to mock me. Himog in particular tickles at the archetypes that possibly lurk in all our brains, in a way similar to the Breton illustrations of the Goetic demons. The other art is great too, but Hoskins is just a killer with a pen.

This volume came in a box, big enough to put both your Hallucinations, a Zine of Lies and also contains a sticker and poster of the Mega Therion illustration, which is very nice. The lid is silk screened by Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos and has a funny etched pattern in the paper that I find unsettling given everything else that is going on here.

I believe there is a third and final volume in the works. I must prepare myself.