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<em>I was born at the full moon atop a crescent-shaped hill, the main mineral found here (on Shooter's Hill) being selenite, and I have a slightly rough-edged crescent birthmark on my left forearm … so I was obviously destined to be either a werewolf or a lunatic...</em>

<em>My first attempt at handling the subject was actually the blank verse play, written sometime in the early 1980s, which I ended up inserting into the final version of <em>Somnium</em>, and the hero of the book, Kit Morley, actually refers to it as a work he’d written in his youth... Come 2001, I decided to combine a certain amount of magical practice centred on Selene with writing the novel that became Somnium. The two things were pretty much inseparable, but that’s often the way Alan and I do <em>Moon And Serpent</em> things … the magic and the art combine in a creative process and the ‘working’ ends up as a ‘work’, in this case </em>Somnium<em>.</em>

In a rare in depth interview,<em> <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/somnium/" target="_blank">Somnium</a></em> author Steve Moore reveals almost all to Aug Stone over at the excellent <em><a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/07629-steve-moore-interview-somnium" target="_blank">The Quietus</a></em>, along with an extract from one of the book's tales with tales.

You can buy the special edition of Somnium, signed and numbered by Steve and Alan Moore, complete with a litho print of the cover artwork, <a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/somnium/" target="_blank">here</a>

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