Beyond the gate, neither waking nor a dream.
“It was neither waking nor a dream. It was something else. I saw through something like a judas hole into this world where there were sentinels standing at a gate and I knew that beyond the gate was something terrible and that it had power over me. The keepers at the gate saw me and they gestured among themselves and then all of that went dark and I never saw it again. I called it the Archatron.”
—Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris, p. 105.
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A Haunted Visual Journey Through Early Cinema’s “Kingdom of Shadows”
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Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni) Interview From the Making of ‘Death Church’ in 1982
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“Archatron”—A Note About the Blog and Its Title
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