"Shallaballah" and "The Age of Decayed Futurity"
Mark Samuels, "Shallaballah" from Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes (PS Publishing: 2008). Mark Samuels, "The Age of Decayed Futurity" from The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales (Chômu Press: 2011). We learn in “The Age of Decayed Futurity” that an organization of dead souls in the future is behind a secret front of billionaires who control all forms of media and exert absolute control over society. Our reality, here and now, depends entirely on this future because the dead project it backward in time and control it. It gets even weirder: the future has already ended or, at least, is in an advanced state of decay. We are seeing time itself rot away, and reality is just the same transmissions bouncing around forever. As for media celebrities, they are/were manufactured in broadcast factories of the future. They are simulacra of humans employed by this conspiracy. The large system behind it all is known as the Reassembly Cartel. The ended future is...