23 Roads to Mythville
An apocalyptic journey across America and meditation on the imposition of order in space, both cyber and dirt real. By experiential author Douglas McDaniel, who explores the mysteries of American networked life. Read more






Ipswich at War
A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, poet and essayist Douglas McDaniel moved to Ipswich, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. A collection of poems from that period of fear and anxiety, as well as the polemic essay, "Media Arts and War."
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Glasnost Lost
As an act of defiance after the botched election of 2000, experiential author launched himself into a journey into the underworld of American life, or, what he calls: The Science of Descent. Read more







Godz, Cars & Cannon
Experiential author Douglas McDaniel launches drives into the networked thickets of American life, looking for signs of myth and romance in the age of automotive machines.
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Many Moons the Mythville: The Collected Road Poems
Poetry written during a 10-year span of criss-crossing America in a roving-eye view of the turn-of-the-century landscape of Mythville, or, as the author puts it: "It's all a bunch of Mythville." With work from four separate books by Arizona-based author and poet Douglas McDaniel, the bard-inspired voices of Milton, Blake and Yeats, as well as the saturnine streak of early beat poesy, ring through this collection of poems and essays. From the southwestern deserts to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, "Many Moons to Mythville" is a foot-to-the-floor blast through the mythical roads of American life.
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Human Search Engine

The journey continues as the quest for myth in an age of information overload leads to online life as an editor for Access Internet Magazine. A story about all human search engines as they chase the ghost in the machine.
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William Blake in Cyberspace

Experiential author Douglas McDaniel takes on the visionary art and poetry of William Blake, comparing an otherworldly worldview to that revolutionary, romantic era to our own wild, wired, mythic world.
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The Kachina's Son

Poems about the Four Corners area written while author Douglas McDaniel was living in Telluride, Colorado.
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The Road to Mythville
A collection of poems on the new millennium in America, drawing from decade of bouncing across the country as a journalist and Kerouac-style poet, from the Southwestern deserts to the shores of New England and back again.
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Google Search: Mythville

“Although it may not be apparent, everything is in order.”
From "Alta," one of the poems found in "The Road to Mythville," by Douglas McDaniel

Douglas McDaniel's new book, "Human Search Engine" is offered as a Microsoft Reader eBook

Just respond to mythville@yahoo.com and make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the reader at: Microsoft eBook Reader Download.

The Mythville Project

For better or worse, the first drafts in Douglas McDaniel's efforts in speculative non-fiction begin with an extended string of readings currently preserved at G21.net. "The Mythville Project" begins here.

The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell

The Mythville Project Blossoms: Douglas McDaniel's special project begins an experiment in co(operative) publishing with a story that begins at The World's Magazine and leaps like a sprite across two Web sites. "The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell" begins here.

Of Scrapple and Soul

A collection of new poems by Douglas McDaniel, author of "The Road to Mythville," contain a strong post-Sept. 11 edge. Examples of an upcoming book of poetry are now on view here.

The Kachina's Son

A new hypertext book by Douglas McDaniel, starting with the first chapter, "The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell," begins here.

Disinfo Dossier: The Big Idealab

The former home of the First Spiritualist Temple in Boston is now the home of one of the remaining vestiges of corporate brainstorming on the Internet landscape, Idealab!. Click Here.

Ipswich in a Time of War

A new collection of poems by Douglas McDaniel, written since Sept. 11, 2001, for obvious reasons. Click Here.

Hot Stove League Means No Joy in Mythville

An upcoming collection of writings on baseball is getting an introduction with a new chapter about the New York Mets scout who discovered Nolan Ryan, Red Murff. Read all about it at No Joy In Mythville.

New Microsoft Reader eBooks Offered: "Kachina's Son" and "The Road to Mythville"

Part of a new offering, Mythville will trade two Microsoft Reader e-Books for your e-mail address. Please respond to mythville@yahoo.com and make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the reader at: Microsoft eBook Reader Download.

"All is Unfair in Media Arts And War"

Mythville's latest offering to G21.net, "Media Arts in War," has won high praise for low pay from its editor, Rod Amis: "Sporadic but consistent contributor DOUGLAS MCDANIEL, who produces our 'Mythville Project' feature, never ceases to amaze me. When he plays to his strength, gonzo journalism, he produces some of the finest work it's been my pleasure to feature in The World's Magazine. That has never been more true than this week. I encourage you to read his piece, 'North Shore Art in War.' It's probably the best writing I've read on The Aftermath thus far.". G21.net.

'William Blake in Cyberspace' Is Comic Strip Hero

Unheralded comic genius Cal Rhodes has rendered Douglas McDaniel, aka, "William Blake in Cyberspace," as a tragic comic strip figure. Plastic miniature replicas soon to follow at Avatars R Us. Savage Pilgrims.

'Too Many Horses,' and Mythville Verse

A very recent batch of poems, written in Ipswich and Concord, Massachusetts, during a time of war are unveiled at the usual Mythville suspects, Kachina's Son. Released as drafts with a special nod of thanks to the elegant and swift bards of Concord and Ipswich, where real poetry lives and breathes each day.

“Snow-crested mountains scattered the sky

while pioneer intellectuals drove the American man

to its alchemical peak, then fell back down the hill.”


~From "Alta," one of the poems found in "The Road to Mythville," by Douglas McDaniel

Douglas McDaniel's new book, "Human Search Engine" is offered as a Microsoft Reader eBook

Just respond to mythville@yahoo.com and make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the reader at: Microsoft eBook Reader Download.

The Mythville Project

For better or worse, the first drafts in Douglas McDaniel's efforts in speculative non-fiction begin with an extended string of readings currently preserved at G21.net. "The Mythville Project" begins here.

The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell

The Mythville Project Blossoms: Douglas McDaniel's special project begins an experiment in co(operative) publishing with a story that begins at The World's Magazine and leaps like a sprite across two Web sites. "The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell" begins here.

Of Scrapple and Soul

A collection of new poems by Douglas McDaniel, author of "The Road to Mythville," contain a strong post-Sept. 11 edge. Examples of an upcoming book of poetry are now on view here.

The Kachina's Son

A new hypertext book by Douglas McDaniel, starting with the first chapter, "The Bog in the Hole Where the Animals Fell," begins here.

Disinfo Dossier: The Big Idealab

The former home of the First Spiritualist Temple in Boston is now the home of one of the remaining vestiges of corporate brainstorming on the Internet landscape, Idealab!. Click Here.

Ipswich in a Time of War

A new collection of poems by Douglas McDaniel, written since Sept. 11, 2001, for obvious reasons. Click Here.

Hot Stove League Means No Joy in Mythville

An upcoming collection of writings on baseball is getting an introduction with a new chapter about the New York Mets scout who discovered Nolan Ryan, Red Murff. Read all about it at No Joy In Mythville.

New Microsoft Reader eBooks Offered: "Kachina's Son" and "The Road to Mythville"

Part of a new offering, Mythville will trade two Microsoft Reader e-Books for your e-mail address. Please respond to mythville@yahoo.com and make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the reader at: Microsoft eBook Reader Download.

"All is Unfair in Media Arts And War"

Mythville's latest offering to G21.net, "Media Arts in War," has won high praise for low pay from its editor, Rod Amis: "Sporadic but consistent contributor DOUGLAS MCDANIEL, who produces our 'Mythville Project' feature, never ceases to amaze me. When he plays to his strength, gonzo journalism, he produces some of the finest work it's been my pleasure to feature in The World's Magazine. That has never been more true than this week. I encourage you to read his piece, 'North Shore Art in War.' It's probably the best writing I've read on The Aftermath thus far.". G21.net.

'William Blake in Cyberspace' Is Comic Strip Hero

Unheralded comic genius Cal Rhodes has rendered Douglas McDaniel, aka, "William Blake in Cyberspace," as a tragic comic strip figure. Plastic miniature replicas soon to follow at Avatars R Us. Savage Pilgrims.

'Too Many Horses,' and Mythville Verse

A very recent batch of poems, written in Ipswich and Concord, Massachusetts, during a time of war are unveiled at the usual Mythville suspects, Kachina's Son. Released as drafts with a special nod of thanks to the elegant and swift bards of Concord and Ipswich, where real poetry lives and breathes each day.