An exploration of the mythology of Lucifer in art and literature, seguing to an examination of the “applied mythology” of filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Lucifer Rising 2 is a recent interview which gets to the heart of questions relating to Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Bobby Beausoleil and the missing Lucifer Rising footage, L. Ron Hubbard and the thelemic connection to Scientology, and other mysteries swirling around Kenneth Anger’s magickal and artistic pursuits. SS

Publisher: Aorta
Pamphlet: 24 pages
Illustrated

A short homage to Rudolf Schwartzkogler, the Viennese Aktion artist who created photographic tableaux of gauze, scalpels, tubes and razor blades which suggested strange sadomasochistic medical operations. The book is made up mostly of interviews with , Schwartzkogler ‘s girlfriend Edith Adam, his model Heinz Cibulka, blood-orgy fellow Aktion artist Hermann Nitsch and others who knew him. The interviews bring out the importance of Artaud’s ideas to the Aktion artists and dispel the lingering rumor of Schwartzkogler’s self-castration. SS

Publisher: Aorta
Pamphlet: 32 pages
Illustrated