New: Valley Versus Vector
Ellis Horning, a nurse at Christ Hospital, experiences a necrophilic rupture that fractures his psyche and opens a conduit to the Christ Contagion—a sentient bacterial intelligence born of guilt, grief, and ecological divinity. As Ellis descends into a hallucinatory communion with the river, identity and desire mutate. Inspired by Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, this novel explores the horror of becoming set within the landscapes of Corvallis, Oregon and Greenville, South Carolina.
Perfect for readers of folk horror, psychoanalytic fiction, and gothic literature. Vector rises from the bones of Vision, yet it carves its own path. You can experience the Valley Versus series in order or on their own as each stands with its own voice.
Valley Versus is a genre-defying series that blends mythic realism, historical trauma, and philosophical depth into a visceral, unforgettable experience.
Featured Publications
Valley Versus Vision
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Valley Versus Vision is a folk horror descent into the haunted layers of memory, trauma, and historical obsession. Set in Corvallis, Oregon, the novel follows Romas, a Lithuanian immigrant working in a local hospital, whose quiet life begins to unravel as he becomes consumed by the town’s buried past. His fixation centers on Franz Edmund Creffield, a real-life cult leader whose early 20th-century presence left a psychic scar on the region. As Romas digs deeper, history refuses to stay buried—surfacing not as fact, but as fever dream, contaminating the present with echoes of ecstatic belief and communal collapse.
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Portland Witch House
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Portland Witch House is a memoir relating identity to Jahan Ihsan's twelve-year photographic study of 'countercultural' personae - subjects who often engaged in outsider religion and ritual - this study was documented using antique and vintage film cameras. Short stories accompany the portraits of Jack Donovan, an Esozone visit from artist Paul Laffoley, author Tracy Twyman, musician Rachael Kozak (aka Hecate), and Satanist Diabolus Rex Church, as well as many other faces and evocative bodies.
Valley Versus Vector
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Valley Versus Vector is a psychoanalytic folk horror novel that plunges into the depths of abjection, trauma, and bodily transgression. When Ellis Horning, a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oregon, experiences a necrophilic rupture with a deceased patient, his psyche fractures—opening a conduit to a sentient bacterial intelligence known as the Christ Contagion. Haunted by childhood guilt and drawn into a hallucinatory communion with the river’s divine ecology, Ellis becomes the site of a metaphysical infection that reconfigures identity, desire, and the limits of the human. Building on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection within a folk horror and ecological mystical setting, Valley Versus Vector is a descent into the horror of becoming set within the landscapes of Corvallis, Oregon, and Greenville, South Carolina.
Jahan
Ihsan
Author, MA Comparative Religion
Jahan Brian Ihsan is a writer and visual artist whose work explores the intersections of personal memory, cultural inheritance, and historical trauma. Raised in the American South, he developed an early sensitivity to the way history lingers beneath the surface of everyday life—the ghosts of the antebellum era haunting columned porches from Greenville, South Carolina to the cemeteries of Savannah, Georgia. In the charismatic churches of the Appalachians, where ecstatic snake handling still occurs, he witnessed how belief can blur into spectacle, and how the sacred often carries a shadow.
Now based in the Pacific Northwest, Ihsan channels these layered geographies into novels that walk the line between personal narrative and cultural haunting.
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Jahan has an MA in Comparative Religion from Claremont School of Theology and a BA in English Literature and Writing from Marylhurst University.
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Jahan's novels include a folk horror series set within the Willamette Valley;
Valley Versus Vision (book one), and Valley Versus Vector (book two).
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Recent Publications:
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Valley Versus Vector, Publisher: Teasel House, September 22, 2025.
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Valley Versus Vision, Publisher: Teasel House, June 20, 2024.
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The Center for Process Studies: Conferences and Conversations, December 2022.
Portland Witch House, Publisher: Blurb, May 2022. ​
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Contributions/Articles:​
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Ihsan, Jahan Brian. "Featured Works in Process Thought." Process Perspectives, Fall 2023, pp. 74–75.
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Jahan Ihsan's photography has also been featured in The Essential Paul Laffoley: Works from the Boston Visionary Cell, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2016, and in a variety of publications and magazines.