1/5 Today a friend made a comparison between QAnon-like phenomena and Ramsey Campbell. I've been thinking of this comparison for a while wrt to the novel, The Nameless. QAnon and post-Q are very much like the cult of the nameless doing distinctively prosaic ego-ridden crimes ...

2/5 and hold extremely banal beliefs while convincing themselves they are part of a much bigger plan involving faceless supernatural deities.

3/5 Yet the triviality of their desires and needs are in sharp contrast to the cosmological needs of the epic wants of the gods they serve and the sagas they want to be part of.

4/5 But the scary thing is that these things if done systematically and persistently can have reality- and mind-altering effects in a kind of bootstrapping manner where the banality of terrestrial evil emulate a semblance of the storm to come.

5/5 At the end they always feel vindicated: We made that promised storm and it happened in one version or another even if the supernatural deities didn't reveal themselves at the end because we were the nameless gods all along.