The Mythological Register

6 Works

The essay-cycles and vignette collections that step back from narrative and address the gods directly as mythological figures — their games, their leisure, their hunger, and the civilisational stakes of their presence.

1. The Hungry Gods — The Pantheon at Play
   Six linked essays on the gods attempting human games — football, American football, volleyball, curling, aerobics, baseball — undone by their own perfection and redeemed only by 'the Child.'
2. The Hungry Gods — The Pantheon at Leisure
   Companion volume to The Pantheon at Play: five essays on leisure activities — golf, skiing, tennis, fishing, chess — introducing 'the one who comes after.'
3. The Hungry Gods — The Small Stories
   Thirty-seven short vignettes in five parts — Games, Ordinary Days, Civilization, Human Things, Time — each god reacting in turn to a mundane or civilisational activity, building to an explicit 'hunger' thesis in the closing piece.
4. The Hungry Gods — The Small Stories, Volume II
   Thirty-seven further vignettes in six parts — Places, Home, Community, Work, Modern Life, Quiet Things — shorter and warmer than Volume I, with a recurring, aging cast of named townspeople across the book.
5. The Titans
   Ten satirical portraits of the people who built the oracle age, recast as Greek gods and arranged from the Precursors through the Builders to the Summoners. Cronus, Zeus, Apollo, Prometheus, Hades, Athena, and the other figures are examined as public personas at the threshold where systems become mythology.
6. The Lesser Gods
   Seven satirical dispatches from the working gods of the oracle age: builders, funders, posters, educators, and the people trying to do straightforward work after the thresholds have been crossed. The senior Titans return as consequential cameos, while the younger Olympians encounter scale, process, and the ordinary absurdity of modern power.