Elektron Ebooks imprint: 130 books

Iwan Bloch, a pioneer of psycho-sexual studies alongside Krafft-Ebing, was the first biographer of the Marquis de Sade and also the discoverer in 1903 of de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days Of Sodom, previously thought to be lost forever. Bloch's Life And Works Of De Sade, first published in 1899,...

First published in 1931, Salvador Dalí's REVERIE is an extended, ritualistic masturbatory fantasy focusing on Dulita, a mythic girl-figure of his childhood. With unwavering hallucinatory power Dalí describes how Dulita is seduced and finally violated in the cow stables of an old castle,...

Men’s adventure magazines of the 1950s and 1960s were a lurid form of pulp publishing which specialised in stories of cruelty and savagery, often in exotic settings. The jungles of Africa, South America and Asia, or remote tropical islands, often formed the background for tales of attacks by man-eating...

The term "demoniality” was believed first coined by the author Juan Caramuel in his "Fundamental Theology", to designate an astonishing perversion sex between humans and demons. But it was the theologian Ludivico Maria Sinistrari (1622-1701) who first devoted a whole religio-metaphysical tract...

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) remains a massively inspirational figure, worldwide, in contemporary art, film, writing and digital media. In this definitive biography, author Stephen Barber tracks Artaud’s extraordinary and compelling life, from his volatile alliance with the Surrealist movement...

The Jigoku-zoshi (“Hell Scrolls”) and similar documents from the 12th century onwards are amongst the earliest, and bloodiest, accounts of human carnage in Japanese art. Victims are burned, drowned in blood and excrement, crushed by fiery rocks, flayed, eaten alive by beasts, and have their...

RAPID EYE was the seminal British counter-culture journal founded in 1979 by journalist Simon Dwyer. Dwyer’s classic RAPID EYE articles are now issued in three special ebook editions. Volume 2 contains "The Plague Yard", an epic trip through the “altered states” of America which ruthlessly...

The ANYHOW STORIES, written by Lucy Clifford for her own children in 1882 and published in 1885, stands among the most remarkable of all volumes in children's literature. Many of the stories have a dark and vaguely disturbing edge, suggesting unseen dread and sorrows lying below the surface of...

Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in The Velvet Underground, a legendary exposé of the diseased underbelly of ’60s American society. The book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock’n’roll...

Charlie Starkweather was the teen-aged, juvenile delinquent rockabilly garbageman who turned mass-killer after absconding with his 14-year-old jailbait girlfriend and embarking on a 7-day bullet-blasting murder spree across the badlands. This special short ebook in the new “Careers Of Evil”...

TOMBS OF THE SEA contains the one novella, three short stories and one fragment which comprise Edgar Allan Poe's "oceanic” tales, conjuring vistas of dark horror and elemental violence. "The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym" was Poe's only extended work, the diary of a strange voyage into the...

The teenage Roman Emperor Heliogabalus (also called Elagabalus, c.203-222 AD) enjoyed one of the shortest, yet most sensational, reigns in Roman history. His bizarre cult of the Sun God with its human sacrifices, his sexual proclivities (including a lust for men with huge genitals) and his often homicidal...

The secret and scandalous journal which the Marquis de Sade risked severe punishment in order to maintain, even when ill and ageing at Charenton asylum, reveals the shadowy life of an exceptional, complex man whose philosophies and works are legendary. This book contains the living, everyday presence...

In Guillaume Apollinaire's THE ELEVEN THOUSAND RODS (Les Onze Mille Verges), debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Published in 1907 after Apollinaire's researches...