Betelguese

A poet constructs a phantasmagoric voyage to an infernal realm located on a distant, dying star, combining astronomical speculation with ornate verse. Prefatory remarks recount fevered, nocturnal composition and justify placing Hell on a remote celestial body; the poems then map cyclopean caverns, flaming plains, labyrinths, and crimson peaks inhabited by demons, incubi and succubi, witches, and tormented souls. Imagery alternates macabre spectacle and mythic allusion, detailing pyres, blood-red rivers, spectral music, and grotesque rites while reflecting on fame, mortality, and the burdens of artistic labor. The collection fuses cosmological musing with decadent, symbol-laden depictions of damnation.