Writing
Horsley's film analyses have appeared in various publications, including New Dawn magazine, Bright Lights Film Journal Film & Festivals Magazine,Cineaste and The Guardian. He worked as a contributing editor and film reviewer for Oaxaca Times in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2004, and wrote film reviews for The List (magazine), an Edinburgh-based publication, in 2007-8.
His first work, The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery 1958-1999, was well reviewed by Salon. In 2005, Horsley published Dogville Vs. Hollywood: the War Between Mainstream Movies and Independent Cinema from Marion Boyars, UK.
His most recent books (both 2009) are Homo Serpiens: An Occult History of DNA from Eden to Armageddon, under the name of Aeolus Kephas (Adventures Unlimited Press), and The Secret Life of Movies: Shamanic and Schizophrenic Journeys in American Movies, published under his given name, by McFarland & Company. Also as Aeolus Kephas, he wrote a controversial article on Whitley Strieber in 2008 which appeared in Alien Worlds Magazine and ''Paranoia'' (magazine). "The Perils of the Literary Shaman" appeared in The Anomalist, the 2010 issue titled "Electricity of the Mind" In 2012, also as Aeolus Kephas, he published a revised and expanded article on Strieber at the website Reality Sandwich. He also published several articles at Reality Sandwich in 2011, including pieces on Carlos Castaneda and the pitfalls of entheogen use.
In 2010, he self-published a short, illustrated book called Paper Tiger: A Mythic Narrative, under the name of Jason Kephas. The book apparently recounts Horsley's experiences of growing up with his brother, Sebastian Horsley, and the effects of his brother's tell-all autobiography Dandy in the Underworld. This work appears almost entire in Mythosmedia's Immanence of Myth anthology, published in 2011 by Weaponized Press. He has also written a monthly column for the Spanish language site Pijamasurf. He is currently working on an improvisational documentary called "Beyond Dirt: The Enlightenment Prospect."
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