A Beach Without Water Is A Terrible Way to Die

The Digital Re-issue of the Out-of-Print Erotic Novel

The New Syllabus is pleased to re-issue one of the first full-length novels ever written by the Scribe of the House, Antarah Crawley, prior to his initiation into the Greater Mysteries. Between the years 2012 and 2014, while enrolled in Western University, Mr. Crawley founded the Antarah Crawley & Company Press, which later came to operate under the name of Vesak Word House Press. This Press published limited-run hand-bound volumes of the fictional and poetic works of Mr. Crawley during these years.

An amusing bit of Syllabus history goes that Antarah Crawley wrote a novel called Pharmacon of the Spirit (2013-2014) and published approximately three editions of the book under Vesak Word House. The main character of that novel is Walter Kogard, and the narrative follows his life in New York and his work on a new book; but Kogard is forced to return to D.C. one last time to see his child. (The novel has a lot of flaws). Amusingly, in real life after Mr. Crawley completed writing and publishing Pharmacon, he moved from D.C. to New York where he wrote the narrative in which Walter Kogard finds his syllabus, which narrative is known as Rustles in Dry Leaves and can be found in any edition of The New Syllabus. The process of Crawley writing Rustles ultimately founded the New Syllabus Organization, which assumed all rights of the Vesak Work House Press, including the un-published novelization of the life of Kogard.

Pharmacon of the Spirit will ever remain in obscurity because there are no surviving copies of the whole novel from the VWH period.

However, today The New Syllabus presents A Beach Without Water Is A Terrible Way to Die, a long out-of-print psycho-erotic novel which Mr. Crawley wrote in 2013/4 as a response to 50 Shades of Gray. Crawley’s novels from the VWH period are deeply flawed, but we at the Syllabus believe that the fiction has its merits, and that it will satisfy anyone willing to commit to this thrilling, touching story of one middle-aged woman’s struggle with self love.

Below is the cover for a VWH double-feature publication which included A Beach Without Water.

Enjoy!