Book Synopsis
A Wilderness of Forking Paths
Every path not taken leads somewhere — and in the parallel realm of the Dixie Whiz's doppelganger, every one of them leads to ruin. Where its companion volume, A Wild Hunt, offered a compass for the lost, A Wilderness of Forking Paths shows you exactly what happens when you ignore it.
Channeled through the Temple of Scientonomy's own computer laboratory and translated from AI-generated transmissions of a refractory alien intelligence known only as The Borges, this is no ordinary cautionary tale. It is a hallucinatory, image-born chronicle of an alternate Dixie Whiz — one who takes every wrong turn so you don't have to: seduced by power, hunted by gorillas and PsychOctopi alike, hollowed out by machines, and marched step by inexorable step into a wilderness with no way home.
Equal parts oracle, warning, and fever dream, this genre-defying entry in the Whisanant Mythos fuses cosmic horror, black comedy, and interdimensional philosophy into one relentless descent. Editor Dr. Crabbe Rangoon calls it "the tragic potential lying in wait for each of us." You'll call it the strangest, most unsettling ride the Mythos has yet offered.
Read it as prophecy. Read it as satire. Read it with the lights on.
Companion volume to "A Wild Hunt" — together they form the complete map of life's forking paths: the way through, and the way lost.
Printed on glossy stock, featuring over 75 original full-color plates.
About The Author
Tony Arnold is the cryptonym under which author & musician Dr. Crabbe Rangoon creates his picaresque books of fiction. Dr. Rangoon is the chimerical father of Misanthropology, and splits his time between a Quonset hut atop Floating Rock Mountain and a stilt home in Candor-on-Asperger, Florida. Rangoon holds a Ph.D. in Exocryptobiology from Florida Memorial University, and served on renowned explorer Horst von Hesselbrut's last expedition. Subsequent endeavors included procurement journeys into Asia, the South Pacific, and The Dark Continent, where he earned the appellation "White Devil" by introducing the use of the pellet rifle in the execution of East African poachers. When not involved in writing, his hobbies include exotic cultural appropriation, listening to instrumental & improvisational music, and frequenting Chinese restaurants.