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  • David Goodis – Night Squad
    David Goodis – Night Squad
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    A novel of urban crime and psychological tension, Night Squad follows a police officer working within the pressures and uncertainties of the night shift, where routine patrol gives way to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Peter Handke – Kaspar and Other Plays
    Peter Handke – Kaspar and Other Plays
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    Kaspar, Peter Handke’s first full-length drama–hailed in Europe as “the play of the decade” and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot–is the story of an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Paul Hemphill – The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music
    Paul Hemphill – The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country M…
    $10.00 | ,

    While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Terry McMillan – Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
    Terry McMillan – Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary Afri…
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    Edited by the critically acclaimed Terry McMillan, the award-winning author of five previous novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature, this is a striking collection [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maia Ruth Lee – Bondage Baggage
    Maia Ruth Lee – Bondage Baggage
    $30.00 | ,

    Bondage Baggage is the first major monograph on the work of artist Maia Ruth Lee and focuses on her ongoing body of work of the same name. Working across painting, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Into The Time Horizon
    Into The Time Horizon
    $30.00 | ,

    Although there have been a range of international exhibitions exploring different aspects of environmentalism in the last couple years, Into the Time Horizon promises to be one of the most […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller – Tracy Hills
    Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller – Tracy Hills
    $35.00 | ,

    A collaboration between LA-based photographers McIntosh and Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills—a new master-planned community being built near Tracy, in the central valley of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds – Honor Song
    Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds – Honor Song
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    Heap of Birds harnesses color, text, place, and the language of abstraction to reconstruct histories, engage with the treatment of global Indigenous communities, and advance the rights of, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Adam Hochschild – King Leopold’s Ghost
    Adam Hochschild – King Leopold’s Ghost
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    In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Douglas E. Winter – Prime Evil (1st ed.)
    Douglas E. Winter – Prime Evil (1st ed.)
    $20.00 | , , ,

    This collection of twelve original horror tales includes contributions by such noted writers of the genre as Stephen King, Dennis Etchison, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, and Peter Straub. Book [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Horace McCoy – No Pockets In A Shroud
    Horace McCoy – No Pockets In A Shroud
    $12.00 | , , ,

    Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but he’s intensely frustrated by his newspaper’s attitude toward the truth. All the articles he’s most keen to run—about a rich youth [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Carl Sagan – Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
    Carl Sagan – Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
    $25.00 | , , ,

    The first international conference on the problem of extraterrestrial civilizations, and contact with them, was held in September 1971 in Soviet Armenia. The conference was a gathering of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ed Ruscha – They Called Her Styrene
    Ed Ruscha – They Called Her Styrene
    $16.00 | , , ,

    Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha, one of the seminal American artists of the past 30 years, is known for taking elements from the visual language of advertising and commercial art: […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • William Burroughs – Dead Fingers Talk
    William Burroughs – Dead Fingers Talk
    $35.00 | , , ,

    Dead Fingers Talk, first published in 1963, combines sections from Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded combined together to create a new narrative. Dead Fingers Talk, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
    Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
    $8.00 | , , ,

    For the last twenty years The Wire has fearlessly bypassed fashion in it’s search to expose the most innovative, radical, and compelling music from every genre all across the world. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Roberto Bolano – Woes of the True Policeman
    Roberto Bolano – Woes of the True Policeman
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    Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sheila Heti – Ticknor: A Novel
    Sheila Heti – Ticknor: A Novel
    $7.00 | , , ,

    On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Houellebecq – The Elementary Particles
    Michel Houellebecq – The Elementary Particles
    $8.00 | , , ,

    An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
    Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
    $100.00 | , ,

    Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Magazine quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of the magazine became a written gospel for the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Metal, Zine
  • Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
    Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
    $8.00 | , , ,

    In noir master Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • David Doubilet – Water Light Time
    David Doubilet – Water Light Time
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    Beneath the surface of the world’s waters lie landscapes, species, vegetations and populations as diverse and splendid as those on land, yet these kingdoms have been explored by few. Water [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
    Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
    $40.00 |

    The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Gaston Leroux – The Perfume of the Lady in Black
    Gaston Leroux – The Perfume of the Lady in Black
    $16.00 |

    “The Perfume of the Lady in Black” by Gaston Leroux is a compelling mystery novel that follows the intriguing case of a missing woman and a series of unexplained events […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Octave Mirbeau – Torture Garden
    Octave Mirbeau – Torture Garden
    $18.00 |

    “A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    Alfred Kubin – The Other Side
    $18.00 |

    The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
    Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
    $18.00 |

    Poland’s strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives On in the Land!
    The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives On in the Land!
    $27.00 |

    Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed
    Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed
    $27.00 |

    What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Weird Tales Collection (Arcturus Pulp Classics)
    The Weird Tales Collection (Arcturus Pulp Classics)
    $28.00 |

    This striking hardback edition brings together the foundational works of the ‘weird fiction’ genre from the pens of Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and more, presented with eye-catching [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kathe Koja – The Cipher
    Kathe Koja – The Cipher
    $17.00 |

    Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand – weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears… It began with Nakota and her […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kathe Koja – Skin
    Kathe Koja – Skin
    $17.00 |

    As Tess Bajac welds jagged scraps of salvage metal into brutal, beautiful forms, she dreams that her sculptures might one day move. Bibi Bloss is a dancer in search of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Langan – The Fisherman
    John Langan – The Fisherman
    $14.00 |

    In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Missouri Williams – The Vivisectors
    Missouri Williams – The Vivisectors
    $21.00 |

    The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate as her attempts to navigate campus conspiracies set her on a collision course […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
    John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
    $9.00 | , , ,

    Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Antonio Serrato-Combe – The Aztec Templo Mayor
    Antonio Serrato-Combe – The Aztec Templo Mayor
    $20.00 | , , ,

    The Templo Mayor precinct at Tenochtitlan in Mexico was an important centre in Aztec ceremonial life, providing the setting for displays of highly-energized rituals. This book uses the latest [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul B. Jaskot – The Architecture Of Oppression
    Paul B. Jaskot – The Architecture Of Oppression
    $18.00 | , , ,

    This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Lachman – The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind
    Gary Lachman – The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind
    $24.00 | , ,

    It is the 60s – yes it is magic, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Uncovers the 1960s Love Generation roots in occultism and satanism. In The Dedalus Book of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
    Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
    $29.00 | , ,

    Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale
    The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Ac…
    $40.00 | , ,

    This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gertrude Barrows Bennett – Claimed!
    Gertrude Barrows Bennett – Claimed!
    $14.00 | , ,

    Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from his sleep by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rebecca Tamas – The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual Year
    Rebecca Tamas – The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual …
    $24.00 | , ,

    At festive gatherings celebrating summer’s peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper
    $14.00 | , ,

    The original feminist horror story, about a woman driven to the brink – and beyond. In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Milo Christie – Pulsey’s Epithet
    Milo Christie – Pulsey’s Epithet
    $15.00 | , ,

    A rare paper imprint release from Gerrit Hatcher’s Kettle Hold Records imprint “Little Appropriately Priced Library” 80 page perfect bound book.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    $18.00 | , , ,

    In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    $48.00 | , ,

    The use of sacred herbs for driving away evil spirits is as old as the written record, and common to pre-Christian religions in Europe. Cleansing and cathartic plants formed the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
    The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
    $10.00 | , , ,

    From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley’s ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
    Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
    $14.00 | , ,

    Welcome to the circus – strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth. Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney’s […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    $14.00 | , ,

    When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction
    Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction
    $14.00 | , ,

    In this darkly addictive, devious novel, love is pain. Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She’s madly in love with her husband. The future looks rosy. Then he disappears […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife
    Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife
    $14.00 | , ,

    In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix. A black velvet [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive