Matthew Sawyer’s Pazuzu Trilogy – The Wasted Revision

My Pazuzu Trilogy is a millennially unique, blasphemous, scrubbed-til-Sunday epic. The Eighth Revision was the first pass in which I did not make major changes – I found typos and a few obtuse sentences, but other than those, the changes are smattering instances of migrating blocks of text into dialogue. The following four revisions were then experiments with character names and locations. So yeah, the current and last revision is the Twelfth. It’s called the Wasted Revision. This last rewrite is dedicated to my pseudonym, Mr. Binger, the author of the two-volume hardcover edition of the Eleventh revision re-entitled The Waste.

* Mr. Binger has also recently self-published his weird and visceral horror stories Unction and Our Lord Weathercock. Pocketbooks available at LULU.

I hope readers enjoy the free ebook version of Manifestation – the first installment of the trilogy. And I’d like them to tell everyone they know and buy the second and third book. Manifestation is mostly background. It’s where I introduce the consequences of a godless world. Emergence is when the narrative grows teeth and nails. Here is where Pazuzu is revealed and my alien gods find this feckless demon.

Pazuzu (pahzoo’zoo) – king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Manifestation (manufe’steyshun) – indication of the presence of a person or thing.

PAZUZU – MANIFESTATION is the first book in the Pazuzu Trilogy. This book introduces the godless world of the Shur desert and the sorrowful sinners therein. Readers follow a pair of UnChosen wretches as they flee for their lives from a crime lord in the city of Gomorrah. A stranger joins the Cortras brothers, but he doesn’t tell them about the voice following him. The wanderer doesn’t know the voice is Pazuzu. In fact, the demon reminds him his name is Ben. This man suffering amnesia carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Download a free ebook version of Pazuzu – Manifestation (The Wasted Revision), the first book in the Pazuzu Trilogy by Matthew Sawyer. Get it from Smashwords!

Emergence (i’merjuns) – gradual coming out as a result of something.

PAZUZU – EMERGENCE is the second book in Matthew Sawyer’s Pazuzu Trilogy. This book continues the bleak tale begun in Pazuzu – Manifestation.

Horror comes to the battered squatters at Saint Erasmus once the demon, Pazuzu, finds a host. Lost in the chaos, Hen Cortras is taken prisoner and followed into the Shur desert, where he meets heathens – nomadic terrorists who crusade against the Chosen’s Church and military.

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Abeyance (u’beyuns) – suspension.

PAZUZU – ABEYANCE is the last book in Matthew Sawyer’s Pazuzu Trilogy. The last book follows the demon, Pazuzu, in the shadow of the Promised Land’s destruction.

Achieving its goal, Pazuzu has claimed a human body. The demon steals the frame of a boy and makes the mother a missionary. Before the old mother dies, she proclaims her demon-possessed son is the messiah – the reincarnation of the Chosen’s eviscerated Mortal God. Meanwhile, the younger Cortras brother is arrested and beaten by the Chosen’s military and sent to a detention camp outside Capital.

At the camp, Hen Cortras meets real-life heathens. The prisoners escape the Chosen’s military and Hen joins their march against the Chosen’s Promised Land. The heathen attack has already begun behind the monumental Wall and Khetam burns. Pazuzu and Benedict Gage, his heathen minister, now cross the fires of Capital in search of the flock gathered by the mother of the possessed boy. The alien gods are now aware of the demon moving through the world and they send monsters.

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Matthew Sawyer’s Bio: A few words concerning myself.

About me … I don’t have any awards – not even an honorable mention. Heck, I didn’t even go to school to become a Writer – I was going to be a Fine Art Painter. Yet I had to pay my student loans. After college, I worked in Mental Health – as in schizophrenics and other assortment of severe mental disorders. All the while, I painted and sketched – and wrote stories. In that time, I speculated the story I really wanted to conjure – years of drawing monsters had spun my own mythology and I hoped for something comparable and real.

The narrative I wanted to create would fulfill a fading desire and breathe life into the chimeras I had drawn in my notebooks. That visual mythology had been collectively called “The Mortui Philosophies.” I tried animation, but the repetitive work only produced frustration. So much in fact, I joined the ‘sane’ world and switched careers into Internet Technology. Secure, I had stopped painting and focused on a very rewarding career. After a few years lacking expression from my creative self, my Pazuzu Trilogy took its first breath.

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Bestial Cult of Hathor Wallpaper inspired by a weird tale from Matthew Sawyer’s Horrid Tales of Wister Town.

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Cthulhu Doesn’t Hate Me…

…well, not any more than he hates the rest of you.

Although, I admit I’ve been rude in making my introduction. I’d love to meet Lovecraft fans. I’d even love more if they’d recognize my literary contributions. Not to the Cthulhu mythos, but rather my parallel world inspired by HP Lovecraft and the categorization of his mythos driven by August Derlerth. I say that and I know I raise hackles – but what other legitimate fantasy have you diehard Lovecraft fans to get upset about? I offer you something to burn in your dying fires – a sacrifice to Moloch, perhaps?

I could be more professional. More patient. Yet I expect “they,” of anyone, can recognize the social awkwardness we all share. I speak specifically of us folks fond of archaic horror, theology, cosmology and myth. I’m not anti-social. Shy and wary about making new friends, yeah, but I’m truly open-minded. I’m open-hearted tempered by frustrated anger. Dammit, I can’t get into Lovecraftzine.

Like 99% of the blind publishers to which I’ve submitted my stories, Mr. Mike Davis at Lovecraftzine doesn’t bother to even return my messages. I thought the submission guidelines read I don’t necessarily need to adhere to the mythos. Yet it is obvious, the man wants pastiche – as defined by Lovecraft aficionado and horror author W. H. Pugmire. I need no more illustration than the video chats at Lovecraftzine. Those forums are populated with accomplished faces. I watch and feel unwelcome.

Yes, there are many authors with much mythos material, all better written and more evil and grandiose than I’ve mustered to date. They deserve publication, recognition and readers, too. I know I’m not special. Yet I am unique. We weird tales authors do draw upon the same sources – mainstream religions, Egyptian and Sumerian mythologies. Nevertheless, I am different. Anti-Pastiche? There is that prefix. I think that’s worthy some unholy recognition.

Whereas mainstream Lovecraftian authors propagate the ethos – and I merely make use of the conventional meaning of the word “mainstream,” I’m more subtle. I’m more insidious than Stephen King’s Yog-Sothoth graffiti found inside his novel The Stand. I substitute my own monsters and gods. You see, and I’ve mentioned ofttimes, I have sketchbooks I’ve kept since High School. They are my collective Necronomicon. Those books are the source of my recurring visions. What more real-world parallels do you readers not see? My Pazuzu Trilogy is the Cthulhu mythos reborn, reincarnated for the early 21st century. Yes, there are others but this is mine. It is worthy of your attention. Please, read me. All I need are twelve devotees and this story will rise from sands and spread across the world.

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I’ll Make It Simple

A big criticism of my Pazuzu Trilogy is the story is complex. It is, I admit, and the books are chockful of visual imagery, insinuation, projection and intellectualization and displacement. The trilogy is named for the demon because this is his story. Readers must remember, Pazuzu has his talons wherever I take my audience. His presence is progressively less subtle until he’s in the flesh – that’s the second book, Pazuzu Emergence.

Although, the illustrations are base. I thought this tactile representation of the godless Shur desert would create a realistic fantasy novel. I believe it works – but I’ve yet to get genuine criticism. I’m not discounting what anyone’s told me, but by their own admissions – “It’s not what I usually read.”

I wasn’t certain what people meant whenever they uttered the disclaimer, until I recently realized they were speaking of my obstinate use of a Passive Voice. Well, I hope that’s been corrected with my latest revision. The story now sounds less complex. All the guts are still inside, but I’ve embraced an Active Voice. Despite the recently updated Preface in Pazuzu Manifestation and the new cover artwork, the story remains at its Ninth Revision. I won’t write a Tenth unless I find major issues or I’m suddenly inspired to make changes across all the books.

The Preface and artwork have been updated only because they’re so good. I want readers to have them right away – and that’s why I also scrapped plans to offer my old revisions throughout the summer of 2012. Hey, if you weren’t reading them then, you won’t read the old copies now. I’m done with them. It’s the Ninth and thereafter.

Speaking of artwork, I have a new Pazuzu Trilogy trailer…

Of course it’s complicated – I’m summing three books in the minute. But here are the new images of the demon I have on the book covers. I simply lopped the head of the two-faced vulture and replaced it with the black-and-white avatar I made. The title is “The Call to God” because that’s what you hear. The Chosen caste have usurped the role of the Creator and driven Him away. The call to the Church in Capital is unanswered because all the priests are Aped and no one remains to pick-up the phone.

(spoiler – Pazuzu is here and it’s safe to assume the demon has engineered the whole scenario – the drugs, the murdered priest, the extortion – oh, read the story…)

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