Michael Moynihan

"Michael Moynihan was born in 1969 in New England. He is an artist, musician, author, editor, and occasional winemaker and bookbinder. He has traveled and performed music on both coasts of the USA, in European countries ranging from Portugal to Russia, as well as in Japan. His award- winning non-fiction book Lords of Chaos (revised edition: Feral House, 2003), co-written with Didrik Søderlind, has received widespread interest and been translated into nine languages. He has written and edited numerous articles and has contributed to scholarly encyclopedias and topical anthologies. Recent work as a translator includes an annotated edition of Die religiose Welt der Germanen: Ritual, Magie, Kult, Mythus by Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, Ph.D., which has been published in English as Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes (Inner Traditions, 2011). He most recently has collaborated on two volumes relating to the unsung pioneer of grotesque and occult imagery in photography, William Mortensen (1897–1965): as co-editor with Larry Lytle of American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen and as author of the essay "Infernal Impact: The Command to Look as a Formula for Satanic Success" included in the new edition of William Mortensen, The Command to Look: A Master Photographer's Method for Controlling the Human Gaze (both books published by Feral House, 2014). With his wife Annabel Lee he also runs a small independent publishing venture, Dominion Press, which has produced works by Stephen Flowers, Hans Bellmer, John Michell, and Joscelyn Godwin in limited hardcover editions (www.dominionpress.net)"