In 1957, garbageman Starkweather, accompanied by his jailbait sweetheart Caril Ann Fugate, embarked upon a killing spree across Montana which shocked America. Modeling himself on James Dean, Starkweather took teen rebellion to its logical and bloody conclusion, killing first Caril’s disapproving father and then a succession of others before being apprehended and later executed in the electric chair. AK

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 160 pages
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The authentic case history of the bloody crimes of Erzsébet Báthory, the 17th-century Hungarian countess whose chronicle of atrocities suggests a female counterpart to Gilles de Rais. A descendent of one of the most ancient, aristocratic families of Europe (as well as the offspring of centuries of intermarriage), Báthory appears to have been consumed by sadistic fantasies from as early as adolescence. By middle age these desires had escalated to witchcraft, torture, blood-drinking, cannibalism and, inevitably, wholesale slaughter. Taking the folkloric tradition of pure blood as remedy for disease to its psychopathic limits, the countess instigated a cycle of mutilation and butchering of virgin girls—all of whom were processed for the ultimate, youth-giving ritual: the bath of blood—which led to some 650 murders, the bloodless corpses carelessly buried throughout the Carpathian lowlands. Condemned to life imprisonment in a cell in her own castle, the unrepentant Báthory died on August 21, 1614, “without crucifix and without light.” Deftly translated by Alexander Trocchi (of Cain’s Book and Merlin magazine fame) and replete with an appendix containing extracts from her trial, The Bloody Countess is an intriguingly repulsive account of unchecked decadence and irredeemable transgression. MDG

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 160 pages

“Tokyo Metropolis. Both in hospital rooms and on the neon streets, beautiful young Japanese girls are photographed in plastercasts and bandages, victims of unknown traumas. These are the ‘broken dolls’ of Romain Slocombe’s Tokyo, a city seething with undercurrents of violent fantasy, fetishism and bondage. Not since J.G. Ballard’s legendary Crash have the erotic possibilities of trauma—real or imagined—been so vividly exposed. City of the Broken Dolls is a provocative, often startling photographic document of a previously unseen Tokyo, and of the girls whose bodies bear mute witness to the city’s futuristic, erotic interface of sex and technology.”

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 128 pages
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A young virgin is schooled in bawdy bedroom manners by a perverted gang of “immoral tutors.” Fornication, murder, incest, atheism and wanton self-gratification are the lessons of the day. “‘Tis essential, however, to utter harsh and foul words during the intoxication of ecstasy, and the vernacular of blasphemy well serves the imagination. Experiment, Eugenie, and you will see the results… flaunt your debauchery and your libertinage, carry the air of a whore: let them glimpse a nipple when in secluded places, garb yourself lewdly to expose your most private parts and incite your friends to do likewise.” GR

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 192 pages

“Lustmurder, necrophilia, pederasty, fetishism, bestiality, transvestism and transsexuality, rape and mutilation, sado-masochism, exhibitionism; all these and countless other psychosexual proclivities are detailed in the 237 case histories that make up Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s legendary Psychopathia Sexualis… An essential reference book for those in the development of medical and psychiatric diagnosis of sexual derangement, Psychopathia Sexualis will also prove a fascinating document to anyone drawn to the darker side of human sexuality and behavior.” With new introduction by Terence Sellers, author of The Correct Sadist.

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 192 pages

A unique, definitive and breathtaking five-year photographic record of London’s Torture Garden—the world’s largest and probably most famous fetish club. This deluxe book explores and celebrates the boundaries of the body and human sexuality with an extraordinary collection of images by the scene’s two leading photographers, Jeremy Cadaver and Alan Sivroni. Includes 350 original photographs with over 50 color plates. Featured are some of the most decadent people on this or any other planet. One person opens a wine bottle with a corkscrew going through his nose, then hangs an electric iron from his penis and nipples with a bungee cord, while on another page, a women showers the crowd with fiery sparks from an electric grinder buried in her crotch! DW

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 160 pages
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Focusing primarily on the trash terrorism of the New York movie underground from its roots in the post-punk ’70s through to the digital fixes of the early ’90s, Deathtripping reads like a depraved cinematic book of the dead. Whether detailing Beth and Scott B’s brutal meditation on torture, Black Box, the visionary excesses of Nick Zedd’s War Is Menstrual Envy or the strap-on role-reversal porn of Richard Kern’s The Bitches, it soon becomes clear from this remarkable collection of interviews and profiles that the most forceful arguments for transgression in film are ethical rather than aesthetic. A shared anger and frustration with the legacy of Reagan’s fuckwit America cuts through every line and image. With the likes of Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Tommy Turner and David Wojnarowicz also on hand to give evidence, a selection of film scripts, assorted manifestoes and diatribes as well as some rare stills and twisted production shots, Jack Sargeant has taken a corpse and turned it into a feast. Folks’ll be pickin’ dark meat off these bones for a long time to come. KXH

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 258 pages
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“The book examines a wide array of British horror films and the stories behind them, from the early melodramas of Tod Slaughter right through to Hammer and their rivals Tigon and Amicus, plus mavericks like Michael Reeves, sex/horror director Peter Walker and more recent talents such as Clive Barker, director of Hellraiser. Films featured range in scope from the sadism of Peeping Tom to the mutant SF of A Clockwork Orange.”

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 283 pages
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This book falls short of its potential. It purports to be a history of human oddities in film, and a flip through to look at the photos is enough to connive the average freakophile that this is a must-have. However, the author skips from subject to subject, often giving the impression he has not seen the films he is talking about. Huge portions of this volume seem to be regurgitated directly from the book Killing for Culture, available from the same publisher, which contains some of the most complete information about the “mondo” style of filmmaking
After claiming that this book will be about real human oddities on film, the author jumps to films using fakes. This would have been fine if he had given these films a separate chapter or section, but this is not the case. They are mixed in with the real stuff, like dirty socks among the clean laundry. Worse, the author breezes past important films and film makers in a few lines, and then goes on to describe at length horror movies that have little or nothing to do with the book’s subject matter. Hardly a complete loss, an oddity and it remains valuable for any connoisseur of oddities. TC

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 244 pages
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Less a study in film history than a magnificently rambling narrative collage in which characters, locations and perspectives are constanly being transposed, Naked Lens is dedicated to the notion that events never occur in neat bands and strands. The connections between the Beats and the underground movie scene, both in New York and San Francisco, revealed as dense, complex and often illuminating in this wide-ranging volume of recollections, anecdotes and profiles. Taylor Mead, star of Ron Rice’s The Flower Thief and Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys, discusses his links with Amiri Baraka and Jack Kerouac, while a surprisingly bullish Ginsberg refutes all false categorizations. It was exploitation filmmaker Al Zugsmith, after all, who copyrighted “The Beat Generation” as a title, thus obliging Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank to rename their flick, starring Ginsberg, Corso and Kerouac, Pull My Daisy. From Burroughs and Bukowski through to Jack Smith, Paul Whitehead and John Cassavetes, this is a book filled with crowded hours. KXH

Publisher: Creation
Paperback: 256 pages
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