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DARK MISSION: The Secret History of N.A.S.A. - Revised and Expanded Edition - JUST RELEASED!!

By Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara

Welcome to the Revised and Expanded Edition of this NEW YORK TIMES best-seller ( yes, best-seller ! ) - Includes astonishing new evidence.

DARK MISSION: The Secret History of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( N.A.S.A. ) and its connections with Freemasonry etc...

The Freemason flag seen on the cover of this book was brought to the moon by 32 degree Freemason astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and later ceremoniously presented to the Scottish Rite Freemason Headquarters in Washington D.C.

"A conspiratorial opus and investigative quest, 'DARK MISSION' opens the reader's mind to a surreal hall of mirrors - a world where occult sects masquerade as government agencies, where mute spheres of the solar system conceal ancient alien artifacts and hyper-dimensional messages that may be critical to survival. Calling into question the nature of truth and the limits of knowledge, Hoagland and Bara's opus is one of the stranger and more amazing books I have ever encountered. Read it if you dare."
--- Daniel Pinchbeck, author of: 'Breaking Open the Head' and the book '2012'.

" DARK MISSION is a tremendous read and tremendously important."
--- Jim Marrs, author of: 'Crossfire' and 'Rule By Secrecy'.

Feral House Books - 2009 Edition - Many Illustrations - 616 Page Paperback - Price: $24.00

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ROTO VISAGE: Band
'Where the Mandrakes Grow' C.D.

Autumn Winds Production - 2009 Release

A Soundtrack to Strangle Yourself By - Dark Deathly Ambient - Experimental Electronic Music Inspired by Auto-Erotic Practices - Beautiful Artwork, Packaging and Layout.

Track List:

Uproot, A Noose of Silk
Willows Deep
Visceral Monologue
Interlude: The Death of Kotzwara
Sickly Sweet Fertilizer
A Breath, Then it Comes
Aural Cavity Obstruction
Light Reflection, The Return

Autumn Wind Production - 2009 C.D. - Price: $10.00

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LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement

By Timothy Wylie

Edited by Adam Parfrey

The Process Church of the Final Judgement was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered 60's and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.

Scores of black-cloaked devotees swept the streets of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, Toronto, London, Paris, Rome and other cities selling the Process magazines with titles like; Sex, Fear, Love and Death.

The Process' no-holds barred theology brought on accusations of sinister conspiracies.

Personalities like Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and George Clinton participated in Process publications, and the band Funkedelic even reproduced Process material in two of their albums.

This book - written by original Process Church member Timothy Wyllie ( who met Robert de Grimston in college ) - is the first book to provide the astonishing inside story of this fascinating group and the mysterious people at its center - Robert de Grimston, Mary Ann MacLean and a host of others.

Included are never before-seen-photographs and reproductions from various rare Process publications.

"I continue to believe that The Process was one of the most creative movements of the twentieth century......"
--- William S. Bainbridge - author

Feral House Book - Published 2009 - Many illustrations in black and white and color - 302 Page Paperback - Price: $24.00

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THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE AND DEATH

THE CARNIVALS OF LIFE AND DEATH

By James Shelby Downard

Cover Art by Danger

“The most absurd, the most incredible, the most ridiculous Illuminati theory of them all.”
— Robert Anton Wilson, author, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

James Shelby Downard may be the most controversial conspiracy theorist of the 20th century. In “King-Kill 33°,” Downard notoriously laid out the involvement of Freemasonry in the assassination of President Kennedy.

The Carnivals of Life and Death is Downard’s autobiographical account of his early years in the deep South, when Ku Klux Klansmen and Freemasons, pulled him into many strange and violent affairs.

Adam Parfrey, who introduced Downard to readers in his Apocalypse Culture book compilations, provides the Foreword, based on his personal experiences with the reclusive and now-deceased conspiracy theorist.

"Because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city of dreadful night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of 'baseball-hot dogs-apple pie and Chevrolet' that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these 'modern' conditions precisely because sorcery is not what twentieth century man can accept as real." --- James Shelby Downard from his essay: 'King Kill 33*'

Feral House Books - 280 page paperback - Few B&W Illustrations - Price: $15.00

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DIRT: Two Extreme Erotic Novels in One Book - by Diane Bataille and Marcus Huttning

DIRT: Two Extreme Erotic Novels in One Book

The Whip Angels - by Diane Bataille (Georges Bataille's wife)
Linda's Strange Vacation - by Marcus Huttning

About this title: 'The Whip Angels' and 'Linda's Strange Vacation' are long-lost forbidden classics of explicit literary erotica, first published clandestinely in 1950s/60s Paris, and now restored to their original place in the history of extreme erotica. Both books are rites-of-passage stories throbbing with stunning sexual manias, lusts and perverse twists.

'The Whip Angels' blazes with erotic excess and incandescent cruelty as Victoria is schooled in the ways of whips and bondage by incestuous guardians. Attributed to Diane Bataille (wife of Georges Bataille, author of 'Story of the Eye').

'Linda's Strange Vacation' starts out as Linda arrives at her uncle's beachside villa for a 'vacation' and is immediately seduced by Lola the mistress of the house - she is then introduced to more & more increasingly bizarre activities - climaxing in an orgy of staggering diversity.

Two erotic novels published in one edition.

Creation Books 2001 Edition - 255 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Price: $15.00

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LAZY - Book by Peter Sotos

LAZY: Book by Peter Sotos

Extreme sexual word terror: Intense sex, violence, death and degradation - A compendium of total abuse - Peter Sotos has honed to a fine art the writing style and choice of subject matter that pisses most people off - over the top combination of extreme sex and violence - very grim reportage from the front lines of the sexual underground.

Peter Sotos has performed with the infamous extreme power noise/ industrial band 'WHITEHOUSE'- a band that has been self-described as 'The Sound of Sadism'.

Creation Books 1999 Edition - 332 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - CAUTION: Adult Content - Not For Sensitive Readers!!! - Price: $15.00

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VATHEK: By William Beckford/ Decadent Novel/ Illustrated by Odilon Redon

VATHEK: Decadent Novel
By William Beckford -- Ilustrations by Odilon Redon

Classic Decadent Gothic Literature - VATHEK by William Beckford remains one of the most extreme examples of strange 18th Century English Literature - a crawling meditation on the transgressions of the deparaved - witches, demons, sacrifice, sexual excess and other spectral horrors mark the progress of Vathek, the ninth caliph of the Abassides - eternally addicted to women, glutony and all things extreme - on a pilgrimage to the underworld where sin & damnation flower into eternal torture.

This edition is illustrated by the bizarre b&w lithographs of 19th century symbolist, Odilon Redon - Classic Gothic Decadent literature first published in 1816 - it was acclaimed by authors ranging from Byron to H. P. Lovecraft.

Creation Edition 2000 - 123 Page Paperback - b&w illustrations by Odilon Redon / Decadent Novel/Literature / scarce book - Price: $15.00

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I LOVE LORD BUDDHA: Manga Style Fiction - by Hillary Raphael

I LOVE LORD BUDDHA: Manga Fiction
Manga Style Novel by Hillary Raphael

This, her first novel, is being called by some the future of literature - and by others a post-erotic revolution.

Set in late-90's Tokyo it tells the history of the Neo-Geisha Organization - a sex & death cult with an anti-consumerist, pro-hedonist, sub-Buddhist ideology - The cult is led by Hiyoko, a leggy westerner with a taste for Eastern philosophy and drug-fueled sex binges - her followers are curious young women with perfect bodies that have traveled thousands of miles to work in Tokyo's neon-lit network of underground hostess bars.

The novel is inspired by early Japanese literature, the AUM Subway-Gas Cult and the esoteric texts of Buddhism - reads like fetishistic techno cyber-manga.

Creation Books 2004 Edition - 187 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Novel/Fiction/Manga - Price: $12.00

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H.P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK: And Other Grotesque Visions/Cthulhu Inspired Art of John Coulthart

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H.P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK:
And Other Grotesque Visions

Art by John Coulthart - Introduction by Alan Moore

This presents all of John Coulthart's harrowing Lovecraft / Cthulhu inspired black & white artwork from the past decade - including two complete illustrated story adaptations & over 40 pages of drawings and paintings - Unique fantastic Cthulhu inspired art and illustrated Lovecraft stories by John Colthart.

Coulthart's style is highly detailed, intricate and dense - showing influences of H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali and others - Any Lovecraft fan will enjoy these interpretations of his dark fantasy world - Amazing Beautiful Art !!!

Also includes, The Great Old Ones - a kabbalah of images of Lovecraft's otherworldly gods, with accompanying text by the legendary Alan Moore.

Creation/Oneiros 2006 Edition -136 Page Paperback - Many many b&w illustrations - Very Good Book - Price: $15.00

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EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema - by Jack Hunter

EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema
By Jack Hunter

SEX: The history of "pink" movies, from Daydream to Ai No Corrida and beyond, including the pop avant-garde violence of Koji Wakamatsu: Violated Angels, The Embryo Hunts in Secret, Violent Virgin and others. Bondage and S/M from Moju and Captured For Sex to Kinbiken rope torture. The New Wave pink films of Hisayasu Sato: The Bedroom, Naked Blood, Private Torture of Uniforms: Thrust It In! and much more.

BLOOD: From Shogun Assassin and Psycho Junkie to the killing orgies of Guinea Pig and Atrocity; from the "pink horror" nightmare Entrails of a Virgin to the post-punk yakuza bloodbaths of Kei Fujiwara's Organ and Takashi Miike's Fudoh.

MADNESS: Homicidal psychosis, hallucination, mutation: Tetsuo, Death Powder, the films of Shozin Fukui: Pinocchio 964, Rubber's Love. Post-punk excess, nihilism, violence, suicide: Burst City, Labyrinth of Dreams, Squareworld, Tokyo Crash.

Eros in Hell examines all these movies and many more - it is heavily illustrated with rare and unusual photographs, and contains illuminating interviews - includes massive film index - very unique guide to the most prolific, fascinating and controversial underground/alternative cinema in the world.

Creation Books 2000 Edition - 221 Page Paperback - Many B&W Illustrations - ADULT Material - Price: $15.00

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AUTUMN IN PEKING Novel - by Boris Vian

AUTUMN IN PEKING (L'Automne à Pékin) - Novel/Fiction
By Boris Vian - Translated from French by Paul Knobloch

Introduction by Marc Lapprand

Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - he was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist, among other things. Vian's 1947 novel Autumn in Peking (L'Automne à Pékin) is perhaps his most slapstick work - which included an extra amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail.

The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure.

Exopotamie is a thinly disguised version of Paris, where after the war the city started changing its previous centuries of architecture into something more modern. Yes, something dull to take the place of what was exciting and mysterious.

Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure - all of them in a world similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.

Tam Tam Books - Paperback - Absurd Novel/Fiction - Price: $15.00

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FOAM OF THE DAZE Novel - by Boris Vian

FOAM OF THE DAYS (L'Ecume des Jours) - Novel/Fiction
By Boris Vian

Boris Vian was an engineer, inventor, chronicler of jazz, trumpet player, poet, creator of spectacles and scandals, lyric writer, singer, novelist, and of course pataphysician.

Tam Tam Books publication of Boris Vian's masterpiece FOAM OF THE DAZE (L'Ecume des jours) with a new translation by Brian Harper has the full approval of the Vian estate.

FOAM OF THE DAZE is a jazz fueled Science Fiction story that is both romantic and nihilistic! Vian's novel is an assortment of bittersweet romance, absurdity and the frailty of life. It is a nimble-fingered masterpiece that is witty and incredibly moving. IT IS THE STORY OF A WEALTHY YOUNG MAN, COLIN, AND THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, CHLOE, WHO DEVELOPS A WATER LILY IN HER LUNG!

"The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written"
--- Raymond Queneau

"A kind of jazzy, cheerful, sexy, sci-fi mid 20th century Huysmans..."
--- Richard Hell

Tam Tam Books - 261 Page Paperback - Absurd Novel/Fiction - Price: $15.00

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VENUS IN PINK: Japanese Porn Starlets - Edited by Candice Black

VENUS IN PINK: Japanese Porn Starlets
Edited by Candice Black

Introduction by Candice Black - Foreward by Romain Slocombe

Japanese Adult Films - known as "pink movies" - flourished in the 1960s and 1970s - Venus In Pink is a visual tribute to the girls who bared all in those countless erotic productions - Page after page of 100 black & white photo film stills from a huge variety of "pink films".

Very nice coffee table picture book

Creation Books 2002 Edition - No Page Numbering - Paperback - B&W Photos - ADULT MATERIAL! - Price $15.00

THE FAMILY JAMS CD: The Manson Family Plays Charles Manson's Songs - Double CD Set (2xCDs)

THE FAMILY JAMS: Double C.D. Set
The Manson Family Plays Charles Manson's Songs

The Family Jams is an album featuring members of the Charles Manson "family." Recorded in or around 1970, the C.D. set was released in 1997. Although Charles Manson himself does not appear on any of the tracks, he is given credit for writing all of the songs. Most of the male vocals are sung by "family" member Steve "Clem" Grogan. Other members appearing on the album are Sandra "Blue" Good, Lynette "Red" Fromme, Catherine "Gypsy" Share, Catherine "Cappy" Gillies, Nancy "Brenda" Pitman and Ruth Ann "Ouisch" Moorehouse.

The first disc is the same music as a previously released white vinyl record called "Manson Family Sings the Songs of Charles Manson." This CD version, however, has been re-mastered for superior sound.

The second disc contains new material and previously unreleased versions of the songs. Incredibly haunting and beautiful apocalyptic acid-folk tunes. Cover art is a photo of Manson's long lost vest - embroidered by the 'family girls'- includes great booklet.
A.T.W.A. NOW!!!

SONG LISTS:

Disc one

1. "Ra-Hide Away!"
2. "Love's Death"
3. "Die to Be One"
4. "No Wrong-Come Along"
5. "Get on Home"
6. "Is There No One in Your World But You?"
7. "Sleep in the Closet/Peace Symbols on Your Tombstone"
8. "Give Your Love (To Be Free)"
9. "I'll Never Say Never to Always"
10. "Look at Your Love"
11. "If I Had a Million Dollars"
12. "Goin' to the Church House"

Disc two

1. "A Gamblin Man Come from Natchez"
2. "Ra-Hide Away"
3. "Die to Be One"
4. "The Fires Are Burning"
5. "Give Your Love (To Be Free)"
6. "The Young Will Overcome"
7. "Going to the Church House"
8. "Love's Death"
9. "I'll Never Say Never to Always"
10. "Die to Be One"
11. "Look at Your Love"
12. "I Can't Remember When"
13. "Going to the Church House"
14. "I Can't Remember When (Alternate)"
15. "Give Your Love to Be Free"
16. "London Bridge Is Falling Down"

Transparency Label - 2-CD Set/Double CD Set - Price: $20.00

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AMOK FIFTH DISPATCH - Sourcebook of Extreme Information - Edited by Stuart Swezey

AMOK FIFTH DISPATCH: Sourcebook of Extreme Information
Edited by Stuart Swezey

Exhaustively researched, entertainingly annotated and provocatively illustrated guide to over two thousand of the most bizarre, controversial and thought-provoking books in print.

A huge reference book surveying the outer fringes of the Information Age, the Amok Fifth Dispatch presents in one volume the gauntlet of extreme literature available from hundreds of publishers worldwide - with a listing of each title accompanied by a description of the book.

The Amok Fifth Dispatch is arranged according to its own ground-breaking taxonomy, from “Control” (analysis of power structure from the trilateral Commission to the American Psychiatric Assn.) to “Mayhem” (true crime, disasters, forensic medicine) to “Neuropolitics” (psychedelia, parapsychology, brain chemistry) to “Orgone” (sexuality, the body, and the life -force) to ”Scratch 'n' Sniff” (pop culture & kitsch) and much more.

This book will no doubt bring to your attention book titles that you never knew existed.

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Includes:

Control Section: Anarchy, Baudrillard, Chomsky, Foucault, Situationists, Zapatista, Zion etc.

Exotica Section: Africa, Sir Richard Burton, Cargo Cults, Isabelle Eberhardt, Maya etc.

Mayhem Section: Cannibalism, Forensic Pathology, Serial Killers, True Crime etc.

Natas Section: Alchemy, Crowley, Gnosis, Kabbalah, LaVey, Spare, Thule, Vatican, Voodoo etc.

Neuropolitics Section: Burroughs, Dreams, Drugs, Leary, Sufi, R.A. Wilson etc.

Orgone Section: Death, Drag, Erotica, Nudism, Plague, Wilhelm Reich, Sex, etc.

Parallax Section: Black Panthers, Genocide, JFK, Masonic, Red Army Faction etc.

Research & Development Section: Charles Fort, Paranormal, Tesla, UFOs, etc.

Scratch 'n Sniff Section: Carney, Hot Rods, Last Prom, Manga, Pin-Ups, Punk, Skins, 3-D etc.

Sensory Deprivation: Art Brut, Cocteau, Dada, Surrealism, Szukalski, Warhol, John Waters etc.

Sleaze Section: Black Starlet, Censorship, Dino, Michael Jackson, William Shatner etc.

Tactics Section: Bombs, C-4, Martial Arts, Revenge, Self-Defense, Weaponry etc.

Title Index, Contributors, Publishers, etc.

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Quotes About the Book:

"The benchmark sourcebook on deviant literature." --- Vanity Fair Magazine.

"The index of all that we hold obscure, perverse and dear." --- Esquire Magazine.

"A reading list from Hell that is a must for any serious oddball bibliophile." --- John Waters (film-maker)

"An impressive collection, absolutely definitive in many ways - one can almost say that there's no need to read anything that isn't in this catalog." --- J.G. Ballard (author of 'Crash')

The previous sourcebook, the Amok Fourth Dispatch, became a must-read underground sensation and went on to sell over 50,000 copies.



Amok Books, 1999 Edition - Huge 561 Page Paperback - Heavily Illustrated in B&W - Price: $15.00

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AMOK JOURNAL: Sensurround Edition - Edited by Stuart Swezey

AMOK JOURNAL: Sensurround Edition
Edited by Stuart Swezey

A compendium of psycho-physiological investigations compiled from the furthest reaches of forensic medicine, sexology, psychiatry, anthropology and hard science research. The focus of this compilation is the pursuit of a neurobiological basis for mystical and ecstatic experience.

The Amok Journal: Sensurround Edition brings together accounts of the search for the erotic in the mechanical, the sublime in the visceral, and the spiritual in the electromagnetic, from explorations of the subtle effects of infrasound to death-defying grasps at the ultimate orgasm. The field of inquiry is the prodigious psychic démi-monde of hallucination, schizophrenia, religious fervor, ecstatic possession, sexual obsession, mass hysteria, and private ritual, as documented by the rational methodology of science. Heavily and graphically illustrated.

Topics include:

•Auto-erotic fatalities
•Self-mutilation/amputee fetish
•Infrasound
•Trepanation
•Mondo Film
•Cargo Cults
•Neue Slowenische Kunst/ totalitarian art
•Psych-out

“It belongs alongside Krafft-Ebbing’s Psychopathia Sexualis and Bataille’s Erotism - Death and Sensuality in any well-appointed library of the unusual.” — Bay Guardian

AMOK BOOKS - 488 Page Paperback · Illustrated b&w - ADULT CONTENT ! - Price: $20.00

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NAKED LENS: Beat Cinema - by Jack Sargeant

NAKED LENS: Beat Cinema - by Jack Sargeant --- A vital collection of essays and interviews that focus on Beat writers, Beat culture, and Beat cinema - films by, featuring or inspired by: Willian S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, Charles Bukowski, Jack Smith, Bob Dylan, Harry Smith, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso and many others. Including such films as: Pull my Daisy, Chappaqua, Towers Open Fire, The Flower Thief, The Subterraneans, Naked Lunch, Decoder, Flaming Creatures, Barfly, Beat Generation, Heaven and Earth Magic etc...

Creation Books, 2001 Edition - 255 Page Paperback - b&w illustrations - Price: $15.00

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THE ART OF DESTRUCTION: Vienna Action Group - The Films and Performance

THE ART OF DESTRUCTION by Stephen Barber -- The Vienna Action Group formed the most provocative, insurgent and challenging of all worldwide art movements of the 1960s. Their sexually charged and anti-social actions exacted a profound and irreparable upheaval in the way in which art was conceived.

Using their own bodies as raw material, the Vienna Action Group undertook experiments in cruelty that disassembled the human body and its acts into compacted gestures of blood, meat and excreta.

The films of the Vienna Action Group - made by the group themselves and with collaborators such as Kurt Kren - form the essential residue, debris and lasting evidence of their performances. Film is the medium - as unique and ferocious in its impact as the corporeal material upon which they worked - it allied itself most intimately to their experiments. This book focuses on those films and performances fully revealing the groups obsessions, ambitions, motivations and outrages. Many extreme black and white photos.

The iconoclastic work of the Vienna Action Group seems as current now as ever before and should be compelling to those interested in the study of film, art and performance as well as those questioning today's social and corporate cultures.

CONTENTS: The Origins of the Vienna Action Group/ Otto Muehl/ Gunter Brus/ Hermann Nitsch/ Rudolf Schwarzkogler/ Art Crimes and Exile/ The Films of the Vienna Action Group/ Kurt Kren/ Ernst Schmidt Jr./ Performance & Film/ Mama & Papa/ Action Vienna Walk/ Bodybuilding/ Art & Revolution/ Action Stress Test/ Blood Orgies & Art Pornography/ Sex and the Art of Destruction/ The Vienna Action Group and Contemporary Art

Creation Books 2004 Edition - 148 Page Paperback - includes many b&w illustrations - These last copies are slightly shopworn - with wear to covers - but clean and new inside. PRICE: $15.00

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UGLY THINGS: Music Magazine - Retro, Surf, Garage Rock, Psychedelic and Beyond.

UGLY THINGS: Music Magazine
Retro, Garage, Surf, Rock, Psychedelic and Beyond.

In This Issue: The Move/Trevor Burton Interview - Roky Erickson's Pre-Psychedelic Days - 13th Floor Elevator Box Set Review - Lost Beach Boy David Marks - The Dave Clark Five - The Spades - The Pretty Things - The New Dawn - The Candymen - The Good Feelins and tons more !!! Many many amazing black and white band photos - this magazine is a plethora of knowledge on known and not-so-well known bands from the 60s, 70s and later.

Ugly Things Music Magazine - Large Format 208 Page Paperback with Glossy Cover - Price: $9.00

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FLESH UNLIMITED: Surrealist Erotica By Guillaume Apollinaire & Louis Aragon

FLESH UNLIMITED: Surrealist Erotica
By Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon
Cover Illustration by Hans Bellmer

Three Erotic Novellas:

The Eleven Thousand Rods/Les Onze Mille Verges: The debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow libertines blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, cruelty and depravity across Europe. By Guillaume Apollinaire

The Memoirs of Don Juan/Les Memoires D' Un Jeune Don Juan: A young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of his aunt, his sister and their friends as he is corrupted in a season of carnal excess. By Guillaume Apollinaire

Irene's Cunt/Le Con D' Irene: A man becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imaginary women and is reduced to spying on 'her' erotic encounters. By Louis Aragon

Flesh Unlimited is a compendium of all three novellas - some of the finest examples of wild literary erotica ever produced and are comparable to the best of the Marquis de Sade.

Creation Books Classic Erotica/ Fiction - Adult Content - 223 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Price: $12.00

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The HISTORY of MAGIC and the OCCULT - By Kurt Seligmann

The HISTORY of MAGIC and the OCCULT
By Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962)

In the illustrious tradition of Sir James Frazer and The Golden Bough, Kurt Seligmann examines the forces that have charmed the human imagination from earliest times to the present - the text begins with the 'forgetful gods' of the Tigris-Euphrates and ends with the pull of sorcery still casting its spell over the twentieth century.

Sumerians, Babylonians, Jews, Greeks, Romans and early Christians - these past civilizations speak with great conviction about the power of magic - it is a record of humanity's efforts to reconcile the opposing forces of Good and Evil within the individual and society as a whole.

Originally published in 1948, this is the work of a distinguished artist, bibliophile and scholar and is still considered an important book on the subject - richly illustrated with 169 black & white images - it illuminates the complex forces of the supernatural - an interesting, thorough overview. Kurt Seligmann officially joined the surrealists in the late 1930's - he was a talented artist as well as a scholar.

Some topics included: Mesopotamia, The Mystery of Stars & Numbers, The Tower of Babel, Persia, Zoroaster, Magic of Hair and Nails, Hebrews, Magic in Holy Writ, Egypt, The Sphinx, Mortuary Magic, Greece, Magic in Philosophical Garb, The Mysteries of Eleusis, Gnosticism, The Gnostic Sects, Romans, The Ruin of Pagan Magic, Alchemy, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica, Magicians of the Middle Ages, The Devil, Witchcraft, Black Magic, The Magus, Cabala, The Tarot, Rosicrucians, Masonic Lodges, Vampires etc.

Gramercy Books 1997 Edition - 342 Page Hardcover - 169 b&w illustrations - Book in very good condition with dust jacket also in very good condition - USED Copy - Price $15.00

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THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST & BLOWN - By Philip Jose Farmer

THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST & BLOWN
Book by Philip Jose Farmer - Cover Art by John Coulthart

The 'Image of the Beast' and its sequel 'Blown' (both published in this volume) are Philip Jose Farmer's conjured up visions of a universe of sexual extremes and horror - these worlds are populated by vampires, werewolves, she-ghosts, snake-women and other polymorphic creatures.

Philip Jose Farmer has just passed away recently - R.I.P.

Creation Books 2001 Edition - 318 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Two Complete Novels - Price: $14.00

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MEGATHERION: Magick of Aleister Crowley - by Francis King

MEGATHERION: The Magickal World of Aleister Crowley
By Francis King

Aleister Crowley (1875 –1947) was the synthesizer of what he termed “Magick”, a system of occult philosophy and technique outlined in such classic texts as THE BOOK OF THE LAW and MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.

In this highly readable account of Crowley’s occult progress, Francis King examines each of the three main sources of Magick – other planes of existence, human will-power and the links between macrocosm and microcosm - which brings new light to Crowley himself and does much to explain the continued respect and admiration for his writings after all these years by such diverse individuals as occultists, artists, writers, musicians, film makers and many others. Includes 12 pages of black and white photographs.

CONTENTS: The Magical Decade/ The Golden Dawn/ The Book of the Law/ Towards the Silver Star/ Choronzon/ The Rites of Eleusis/ Book Four/ Western Tantrism/ The Departure and Later Life of Neuburg/ Sexual Wisdom/ America/ Leah Hirsig/ The End of the Abbey/ Wanderings of a Magician/ Twilight of a Master/ A Magical Revival and a Death/ The Aftermath

Creation Books 2004 Edition - 193 page paperback - illustrated black and white - Price: $15.00

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FREEMASONRY and its ANCIENT MYSTIC RITES - By C. W. Leadbeater

FREEMASONRY & its ANCIENT MYSTIC RITES
By C. W. Leadbeater

A classic book on the subject of Freemasonry, C. W. Leadbeater has written numerous books on esoteric topics - This book, originally written in 1926, is an in depth study of the rites of the Mystery schools of ancient Egypt, Greece and Judea from the middle ages to the 20th century - and shows how these ancient rites have emerged in this century as Freemasonry.

Based on his vast knowledge of the esoteric and almost every Masonic record available to the historian at the time, Leadbeater relates little known facts about the Mystery schools and their practices and beliefs - clearing up much confusion about the origins of Masonry - those origins now 'lost in the mists of antiquity'.

Contents include:

The Origins of Masonry: Authentic School / Anthropological School / Mystical School / Occult School / Knowledge of the Occultist / Occult Records / Sacramental Power / etc.

The Egyptian Mysteries: World Teacher / Gods of Egypt / Isis & Osiris / Animal Dieties / The Practice of Embalming / Brothers of Horus / Consecration / Degrees of the Mysteries / etc.

The Cretan Mysteries: Unity of the Mysteries / Creatan Race / Worship in Ancient Crete / The Throne Room / The Three Columns / Models of Shrines / The Alter Objects / etc.

The Jewish Mysteries: Jewish Decent / Jewish Migration / The Prophets / Builders of the K.S.T. / Recasting the Rituals / Essenes and the Christ / Kabbalism / etc.

The Greek Mysteries: Eleusinian Mysteries / Greek Mysteries / Greek Gods / The Lesser Mysteries / Greater Mysteries / Hidden Mysteries / School of Pythagoras / Three Degrees / etc.

The Mithraic Mysteries: Zarathustra & Mithraism / Mithraism in Rome / Mithraic Rites / Roman Collegia / Work of King Numa / Colleges and the Legions / etc.

Craft Masonry in Medieval Times: Evolutionary Methods / Withdrawal of the Mysteries / Christian Mysteries / Repression of the Mysteries / Crossing of Traditions / etc.

Operative Masonry in the Middle Ages: Temporary Custodians / Decline of the Collegia / The Comacine Lodges / The Compagnonnage / German Stonemasons / etc.

Transition from Operative to Speculative: The Reformation / First Minutes / Scottish, English and Irish Minutes / Grand Lodge / The Recomposition of the Rituals / etc.

Other Lines of Masonic Tradition: Secret Societies / Templars / Preservation of Templar Tradition / The Royal Order of Scotland / Brothers of the Rosy Cross / etc.

The Scottish Rite: Origins / Jacobite Movement / Oration of Ramsay / Chapter of Clermont / Council of Emperors / Spread of the Scottish Rite / Frederick the Great / etc.

The Co-Masonic Order: Restoration of an Ancient Landmark / The Succession of Co-Masonry / The Co-Masonic Rituals / The Future of Freemasonry / etc.

Gramercy Books N.Y., 1998 Edition - 241 Page Hardcover Book - No Illustrations - Price: $15.00

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HERE TO GO: Brion Gysin - His Life, Work & Philosophy - by Terry Wilson

HERE TO GO: The Life, Work & Philosophy of Brion Gysin
By Terry Wilson -- Preface by William S. Burroughs

A collection of exclusive interviews with, and writings by, Brion Gysin - Beat writer, artist, mystic and long-term collaborator with William S. Burroughs. Fully illustrated with a preface by Burroughs, Here To Go documents the life and work of one of the 20th century's most neglected writers and visionary artists.

Brion Gysin was a quiet member of the Beat Movement and a close friend of William S. Burroughs, who once said Gysin was the only man he ever respected. Terry Wilson met with Brion Gysin in 1971, and those interviews led to this volume, which includes the text generated at those meetings.

As an interview subject Gysin is all over-the-map, like his work - as he describes the mechanics of the Dreamachine (a stroboscopic device made for producing drug-free hallucinations), explains how the source of all evil is communication and relates in vivid detail his visit to Alamount, the secret mountain fortress of Hassan i Sabbah - leader of the Hash Assassins. An excellent look at an important yet under-rated and lesser known artist, mystic and writer.

Creation Books Edition, 2001 - 246 Page Paperback - b&w Illustrations - Price: $15.00

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THE SEED: Unusual Science Fiction Novel - by Davide De Angelis

THE SEED: Science Fiction Novel
By Davide De Angelis

THE SEED: This is erotic and spell-binding prose streaming through realms of phenomenal danger and vibrant beauty - these exhilarating layers of adventure, myth and philosophy are enriched by eye opening metaphysics - science fiction filled with the incandescence of dreams.

The Dreamweaver - story teller, sound shaper and cult figure to millions, journeys deep into the realm of dreams to retrieve a powerful, healing story from Sunixlan, the Dream-Shaman - but
to his horror he learns that the Shaman has been destroyed and replaced by a dark, intoxicating Sorceress named Talis. She promises to teach him the mind-altering language of the Sirens but first he must first embark on a deadly mission for the mysterious enchantress.

"De Angelis' prose is vital, weird and as devious as his image making, Enthralling!" --- David Bowie

Creation Books - 192 Page Paperback - Science Fiction/ Novel - Price: $12.00

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THE TRIAL OF GILLES De RAIS - by Georges Bataille

THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS
By Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience — the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death — Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this grotesque and still horrifying 15th-century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts - who was also at one time a lieutenant to Joan of Arc - but after her execution he began a steady decline into the depths of hell.

“This book about the notorious 15th-century serial killer of young children, written by France’s famous connoisseur of transgression — the man the surrealist Andre Breton labeled an ‘excremental philosopher’ — represents a marriage not made in heaven, perhaps, but surely nowhere on this earth . . . the fact is that The Trial of Gilles de Rais gives us Bataille at his most accessible — he had been trained as a medievalist librarian, after all — and is probably, taken in its entirety, the best thing now available in English on one of the most bizarre figures in European history.” — New York Times Book Review

AMOK BOOKS - 285 Page Paperback - No Illustrations - Price: $14.00

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SEVERED: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder - by John Gilmore

SEVERED: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder

By John Gilmore

The grisly 1947 murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the “Black Dahlia,” has over the decades transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon/film noir glamour-cum-sordidness.

SEVERED, a true-crime book published on the strangest of all “unsolved” murders in the annals of modern crime, offers the documented solution to the case as endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts. It is appropriate that hard-boiled, Hollywood-born author John Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD officer at the time of the murder, should be the one to unravel the multilayered mystery of this archetypal Los Angeles slaying, having begun his painstaking investigations into the case over thirty-five years ago.

Gilmore tells several previously unrevealed stories at once, each filled with its own bizarre elements through which SEVERED transcends the true crime genre. One is the tale of victim Elizabeth Short, small-town beauty queen with big hopes, who seemed to float through her tragically futile life as an alluring yet doom-laden enigma. Another is the tangled inside story of the police investigation and the remorseless, Hearststoked press hoopla that paralled it. Finally Gilmore reveals the twisted psychology and down-and-out life story of the actual murderer— as well as the startling circumstances and gruesome details of the killer's indirect confessions to him. SEVERED contains a thirty-two-page photo section with many never before-published photos from the life of Elizabeth Short and from the case, including graphic crime scene and postmortem police photos.

"The most satisfying and disturbing conclusion to the Black Dahlia case - After reading Severed I feel like I truly know Elizabeth Short & her killer" -- David Lynch

"My god this is a frightening tale...." -- Kenneth Anger

AMOK BOOKS - 230 Page Paperback - Illustrated b&w - Price: $15.00

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