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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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, […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 […]
“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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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, […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]