Don Webb (writer)

Don Webb
Don Webb at 1999 Los Angeles Temple of Set Conclave
Born	1960 (age 56–57)
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, literary instructor
Nationality	American
Genre	Science fiction, horror

Don Webb (born 1960) is an American science fiction and mystery writer, as well as an author of several books on Left Hand Path occult philosophy.^[1] He is also a former High Priest of the Temple of Set.

Writing career

Webb's first professional fiction sale was the short story "Rhinestone Manifesto", published in Interzone 13, Autumn 1985. He is best known for weird, experimental, and offbeat fiction, as well as works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and according to Locus Magazine, he has published many stories, essays, interviews and other writing materials.^[2] His short stories have appeared or been referenced in numerous anthologies, including The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection,^[3] Asimov's Science Fiction^[4][5][6] and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction^[7] His story "The Great White Bed" (F&SF May 2007) was nominated for the International Horror Critics Award.^[8]

Webb has published 12 books and over 400 other items covering a broad range of topics. Webb is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.^[9] He currently lives in Austin, Texas^[10] and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[11]

Magico-religious activities

Webb served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1993 to 2002.^[12] He is an authority regarding the Temple of Set and has published several works of non-fiction on the topic. The Temple of Set continues to publish several of his articles as recommended introductory material for prospective members.^[13][14]

Within the Temple of Set he is Grand Master of the Order of Setne Khamuast.^[15] This Order focuses upon Egyptian and Mediterranean magick and initiation. The working formula of this Order is to take what has worked in the past and make it work today, the idea being that returning to the root of a concept yields the most powerful and precise results for the practitioner.

Bibliography

Books

Fiction

• Through Dark Angles: Works Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-61498-084-1
• Judas Payne: A Weird Western / Webb's Weird Wild West: Western Tales of Horror (double book with Michael Hemmingson, Wildside Press, 2010) ISBN 1-4344-1194-X
• When They Came (Temporary Culture, 2006) ISBN 0-9764660-1-5
• Endless Honeymoon (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001) ISBN 0-312-26582-4
• Essential Saltes (St. Martin's Press, 1999) ISBN 0-312-20302-0
• Serenade at the End of Time (Bereshith Pub, January 1999)^[16]
• The Explanation and Other Good Advice (Wordcraft of Oregon, 1998)^[17] ISBN 1-877655-25-2
• The Double: An Investigation (St. Martin's Press, 1998) ISBN 0-312-19144-8
• Anubis on Guard Selected Poetry of Don Webb (Dark Regions Press 1998)^[18]
• Stealing My Rules (CyberPsychos AOD Books, 1997) ISBN 1-886988-05-6
• A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire (Black Ice Books, 1996) ISBN 1-57366-012-4
• The Seventh Day and After (Wordcraft of Oregon, 1993), ISBN 1-877655-05-8
• Märchenland ist abgebrannt: Profane Mythen aus Milwaukee (short story collection, translated by Susanna Harringer, Guthmann-Peterson, 1989)
• Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book (Illinois State University Press, Fiction Collective Two, 1987)
• The Bestseller and Others (Chris Drumm Publications)

Non-fiction

• The Seven Faces of Darkness (Occult non-fiction, Runa-Raven Press) ISBN 1-885972-07-5
• Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1-885972-10-5
• Mysteries of the Temple of Set: Inner Teachings of the Left Hand Path (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1-885972-27-X
• Aleister Crowley: The Fire and the Force (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1-885972-28-8
• Overthrowing Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1-62055-189-6

Short fiction

• "To Mars and Providence" (in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam Spectra, 1996, and Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture, edited by Jim Turner, Golden Gryphon Press, 1998)
• "Tamarii Notebook" (in More Amazing Stories, edited by Kim Mohan, Tor, 1998)
• "Four-and-Twenty" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7: Spring 1990 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1990)^[19]
• "The Key to the Mysteries" (Originally published in Grue Magazine, 1989, collected in The Explanation and Other Good Advice, 1998)^[20]
• "In the Wings" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 3: Spring 1989 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1989)^[21]
• London is Calling with t. Winter-Damon (Back Brain Recluse, 1989; The Explanation and Other Good Advice collection, Wordcraft of Oregon, 1998)
• Pulphouse Issue 19^[22]

Reviews

• "Book Becoming Power" by Henry Wessells (New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2000)
• "Webb on the Web" by Jon Lebkowsky (The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 17, No. 47, July 31, 1998)

References

External links

• Don Webb at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Citations for Don Webb in the Locus Index to Science Fiction
• Point of Inquiry interview with Don Webb
• "R. A. Lafferty: Effective Arcanum" by Don Webb