The Devil’s Apprentice: Tales of Aleph and the Haunted Path

by Harry Edgar Palacio

The Devil’s Apprentice is a haunting literary exploration of beauty, suffering, and the eternal dance between gods, demons, and humanity. Through Aleph’s surreal encounters with angels, devils, lovers, and mirrors that reflect endless lives, readers are taken on a labyrinthine journey that blurs the line between madness and revelation.

Harry Edgar Palacio blends myth, philosophy, and raw human experience into a tapestry of visionary storytelling. Each chapter unfolds like a sutra, meditations on love, death, divinity, and the cursed gift of beauty. This work continues Palacio’s tradition of bold, poetic narratives found in his earlier books (Ambrosia, Sutras of Tiny Jazz, Lazarus At His Vertigo-talk).

A book for seekers, dreamers, and those haunted by the unseen, The Devil’s Apprentice is both a confession and an initiation into a world where gods speak, devils love, and beauty itself may be the greatest curse of all.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2025

About the author

Harry Edgar Palacio (Oregon Kool-aid) is a critically acclaimed underground Indie/Alternative Rock musician, numerous award-winning author & prize-winning fine artist. He hit #1 in Luxembourg music charts with his hit single "Coral Relief," performed with Grammy winners & Grammy nominated artists including Ari Up, lead singer of The Slits 'Godmothers of Punk' former member of The Raincoats, championed by Kurt Cobain. He was offered a music contract with Atlantic & Interscope Records, featured on over a 100 music magazines including Rolling Stone, MTV, XXL, ABC, CBS, FOX News, NBC, African Hype, HipHop 1987 & elsewhere. Harry performed at Paramount Theater, NYC, Dominican Republic, September Fest, Peace Fest & many other venues. Harry is 'Oregon Kool-aid,' & 'Harry Edgar Palacio,' his 19 studio albums are available on all streaming platforms. Harry was a finalist for Fjords Review Book Competition, semi-finalist for Quartz Literary Prize, Willow Run Book Award, Finishing Line Press chapbook & book competition. His 14 books Ambrosia, Sutras of Tiny Jazz, The Foyer, Maya Or Madness, Narcissus, Dream-walking Savage, Lazarus At His Desk, Shani's Ghost, The Devil's Apprentice, The Leper God, The Devil In The Mirror At The End Of The Labyrinth, The Apostle Ophiuschus & Black Obelisk: The Dominican Phallus & Mental Illness & Peregrino Gitano are available internationally. Harry's prose-poetry has been published in over 75 magazines, journals, reviews & anthologies including Ballast, Punt Volat, Active Muse, Bar-Bar, Tule Review, Washington Square Review & elsewhere. His fine art was featured in over 14 magazines including Coca Project, Blotter Rag, Bellevue Review, The Morgue, Bitchin' Kitsch, Suburban Witchcraft, Mania Magazine & International Voices who has shown fine art at galleries & festivals internationally in Italy, School of Visual Arts, Open Studios Peekskill, Paul Robeson Gallery, H-Art & Mount Kisco Arts Council. He was a music journalist for Popfadblog & has read 5,504 books in his lifetime making him top #26 reader in the USA & top #49 reader globally. Harry was a college radio DJ & Rock Music Director at WARY 88.1. He is an International Yoga Instructor 200 Hours certified by Universe Yoga Alliance in Nepal/ India, Astrologer, Oracle. Harry is second generation Osho Lineage Meditation Master and has meditated 2,700 hours in his lifetime. Harry is a U.S citizen living in Mount Kisco, New York & Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, former residence Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Brooklyn & Nagarkot, Nepal. He received a Master’s in Education from Manhattanville University where he worked as assistant director of the social justice branch. Harry was accepted into Harvard University, offered three honorary PhDs & has certificates from The New School & Rolling Stone Magazine, Parsons School of Design & Complex Magazine, Wesleyan University & Stanford University etc. He is a BIPOC, Dominican & Colombian, living with schizoaffective disorder