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"To say a literary work is psychotic as a criticism is to ignore the very psychological mechanism by which creativity happens. Creativity is the drawing of connections between what we think of as disconnected, imagining what we have not been socialized to imagine--the very nature of psychosis itself."

--Anonymous

The Books of Angelhaunt, Volume I

Cabeza de Vaca, © 2000, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

A Lone Brain Locked in a Small Apartment, © 2000, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

Constellations: a manifesto, © 2001, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

The American Revelation Dictionary: Alpha to Acheron, © 2001, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

The Books of Angelhaunt: Volume II

Portraits, © 2001, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

Ahab in Three Acts: a apocalypse, © 2001, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.

The Dream Project: a sequence, © 2002, Jason Stuart Ratcliff

Legal Impossibility: a cosmology, © 2002, Jason Stuart Ratcliff

Rites of Passage: My Schizophrenic Youth in Mosaic, © 2002, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. This is my memoir of schizophrenia, available in hardcopy from Amazon and other dot-coms. Click on its title to read the first 30 pages.

The Flourishing: a book of songs, © 1992-1999, Jason Stuart Ratcliff.
This is my little book of poetry, available for $11.95.
Click Amazon.com to buy it now.

Schizophrenia and Human Nature, © 2002, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Part political treatise, part psychology, part phenomenology: my attempt at philosophy of schizophrenia. Not available in hardcopy but posted in free html.

Essays Concerning Ontology, Language & Logic, © 2004-6, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Analytic philosophy dealing with the mind's relation to reality in-itself. Posted for free.

Essays Concerning God, Ethics & Human Experience, © 2004-5, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Five short essays on religion and the human experience, also posted in free html.

The Problem of History, © 2005, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. An extended work on global political dynamics, posted for free.

Two Suicides: a novel, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. This novel is not available in hardcopy either, but I've posted it for free, so click on its title and enjoy!

Short Fiction, © 1999-2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Click to read 24 of my best short stories, all written (with the exception of the first four) in 1999. They are posted in html but unavailable in hardcopy.

(All screenplays taken down at the request of my representative.)

Lucky 13, © 1998, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. A screenplay about money, greed, murder, and one man's very unfortunate tattoo.

Fooling Thomas Pynchon, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Los Angeles, 2003. Thomas Pynchon gets liquored up and fires a gun at no one, hitting no one. He is taken by police to Brotman Psych. Or is he? (A screenplay)

The Moriarty Mystery, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. This is one of my feature-length film scripts, a mockumentary in a similar vein with Blair Witch.

Madhouse, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. A screenplay about how incredibly weird Los Angeles can be.

Paranoid Kings, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. This is another screenplay I am quite proud of. Toxic funguses and paranoia in a very bizarre version of New York.

The Substance of Shadows, © 2003, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. Mass murder in the suburbs. Animals taking back the city. Wild Indians at the edge of town. Chaos, mayhem, and neverending dreams. Yes, this is hell. (If only it weren't for those gambling debts.) A horror screenplay.

The Dreamtime: a novel of ideas, © 2004, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. This is a short novel I am quite happy with, available in free html but not book form.

Down in Denver: a novella, © 2004, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. A pair of addled potheads struggle with life and money in a filthy shithole of an apartment.

Concerning the Free Will Debate, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. A short essay that argues for but perhaps doesn't quite prove the reality of human agency.

In Defense of Faith, © 2006, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. An extended essay that provides rational grounds for theism without proof that God exists.

Categorical Salvation, © 2006, Jason Stuart Ratcliff. An essay that picks apart the notion of heaven and human redemption, trying to find a conception of what can be meant by the Paradise beyond the grave that most all the religions promise us.

Stereofrenic, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Beatlejuice, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Scarecrow Dynasty, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Fantazmasia, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Raptear, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Zillagod, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Sharkdark, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited).

Basshead Epic, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (one riff--though not recording--lifted from Stormtroopers of Death). (Original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited.)

Metallica Tribute, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly credited. Riffs, but not sounds or recordings, lifted from Old Skool Metallica.)

The Ballroom, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

mazeArt, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

kafKat, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

Conch Shell Prophet, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

Starlike, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

beatHoven, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

Strangeline, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).

Lektrick, © 2007, Jason Stuart Ratcliff (original music--permission given to download, copy, and post elsewhere if properly cedited).