Sebastian Michaels
Author of cosmic horror, narrative poetry, and liminal photography
Sebastian Michaels is a Moscow, Idaho based American author and photographer whose work blends narrative poetry, folklore, and atmospheric worldbuilding. His projects often unfold as recovered transmissions, artifacts, and field documents, inviting readers into interconnected mythologies rooted in rural landscapes, cosmic dread, and analog media.
Biography
Michaels is best known for The Crown of Glass, a narrative poetry collection released in 2025 that unfolds over seven nights and centers on a haunted constellation bound to human loss. The book established the tonal foundation for a growing body of interconnected works built from signals, field notes, and mythic fragments.
In addition to writing, Michaels photographs liminal roads, rural structures, and landscapes that feel displaced in time. His visual work appears alongside his fiction as part of a broader effort to build believable mythologies through atmosphere, texture, and recovered detail.
Ongoing projects include The Astral Annex, a free web-based companion reader, and Signals, a broadcast-style archive of updates, essays, and transmissions.
Official images
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Works
- The Crown of GlassNarrative poetry collection, 2025.
- The Astral AnnexInteractive web-based companion reader.
- SignalsDispatches, updates, and recovered notes.