To enter a new myth is a moment of initiation. One must return to the moment before myth, when the myth of anyone might still become the myth of any other. It is to enter the room which is both tomb and womb, to become innocent of everything except the motivation for myth. – Maya Deren, avant-garde film-maker
Genres: Psychology/Bipolar, Metaphysical, Religion, Mythology, Memoir
QUESTIONS FOR WEREWOLVES: A CREATIVE NONFICTION OF MADNESS, WITCH AND DAIMON is a metaphysical odyssey of bipolar depression, inspired by Greek underworld myths and world religion.
In 1998, while I am working on a film in Los Angeles, mysterious omens and voices begin to invade my everyday life. When I hear about the murder of a stranger in my hometown. I’m gripped by the premonition of the death of a woman I once knew. My sanity collapses. But the wild voices and the depression never go away. I put my faith in these voices and follow the gods. A wolf appears as a dream guide into the mystic dark that is both tomb and womb.
I travel as a stranger across cultures and continents, to seek out the Black Virgin, the enigmatic madonna of many names. Here, my voices ferment in our common shadows, doubts, and deep religious mystery. Blending with world religion, the Greek myths may become song-lines into dream time. Through the white fire of their divine names – Persephone, Artemis, Dionysos and others – to seek and find the daimon.
This is the author’s intimate diary of the night of the soul that meets us in depression and bipolar depression. It hunts the intense, inner life of images that is often construed as madness, to find intuitive openings in the dark that can set free the most spiritual yearnings of the heart — for the divine beloved and indestructible life.
Accepted for publication by Running Wild Press in early 2026.
Table of Contents
Black Light
the emperor
black veils
the loups garous
the minotaur
unspeakable
nameless continent
persephone
The Black and the White
a comedy of saints
the names
grand cemetery
war of light
how dark thoughts came into the human heart
hell’s gate
the baron
the year that ends in one dark day
The Black Virgin
the palmistry of wood
white fire
lost city
the star
the daimon
epilogue: depression and shamanic themes