Elektron Ebooks: 115 books

In Edogawa Rampo’s "Moju: The Blind Beast", a deranged, scarred and sightless sculptor kidnaps a model and imprisons her in a psychedelic labyrinth of giant sculpted eyes and other outlandish body parts, before dismembering her in a fearful blood-orgy. Her limbs, head and torso are later found...

Ilse Koch was the buxom she-sadist who ruled Buchenwald concentration camp with an iron fist of torture, sexual depravity and atrocity. The most infamous of her crimes was making lampshades and other ornaments from the human skin she flayed from her dead victims. This special short ebook in the new “Careers...

Caligula was the depraved Roman emperor whose brief reign was an orgy of sex, violence, slaughter and absurdity. This special short ebook in the new “Careers Of Evil” series examines Caligula’s life, atrocities, and eventual assassination in vivid detail. it also includes a revelatory bonus essay on the shocking, incestuous relationship between Caligula and his sisters.

Straight To Hell examines ten case histories of suicide in the 20th century. These acts of self-annihilation, committed by artists, writers, and philosophers, stand as the final testaments of individuals whose vision would ultimately drive them to oblivion. Contributors including cultural historian...

The Inmost Light, one of Arthur Machen's most disturbing stories, involves a doctor's scientific experiments into occultism, and the vampiric force instigated by his unrelenting curiosity regarding the unseen elements. A large and glorious gem-stone is the vampiric mediator; soaking up the soul of the...

LAS HURDES (1932), the third film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, is now regarded as the first ever “surrealist documentary”. Buñuel’s view of the impoverished and disease-stricken land of the blighted Hurdanos is filled with grotesque and repellent images. This special ebook...

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) remains one of the most inspirational, provocative and challenging figures in world-wide contemporary culture. His trajectory extends from the Surrealist movement, to the Theatre of Cruelty, to the lunatic asylums of France, and finally back to Paris and the most astonishing...

Bayoneted, beheaded, blasted to bits by bombs – death and bloody carnage were the highlights of the infamous 1938 trading card series “Horrors Of War”, which depicted alternating scenes from three contemporary conflicts: the Sino-Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War, and Mussolini’s...

In 1962, the Topps company published two of the most accomplished – and controversial – trading card series of the century, “Mars Attacks” and “Civil War News”, both marked by scenes of extreme gore and sadistic carnage. “Civil War News”, a vivid and...

The S.L.A. or Symbionese Liberation Army was one of America's most feared 1970s terror groups, grabbing the nation's attention with two high-profile crimes: the murder of black school superindendent Marcus Foster, followed by the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. The ensuing months,...

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 3 includes in-depth feature interviews with the leading British artists Gilbert & George, and visionary...

The first notable literary advocate of the Satanist, alchemist and child-killer Gilles de Rais remains J-K Huysmans, famous for his novel A Rebours and its quintessential decadent, Des Esseintes. Huysmans' later novel La-Bas (1891), a virtual apology for Satanism, is threaded by a version of the de Rais...

Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was one of the key symbolist writers, standing in French literature alongside such names as Stéphane Mallarmé, Octave Mirbeau, André Gide, Léon Bloy, Jules Renard, Rémy de Gourmont, and Alfred Jarry. His best-known works are Double Heart (1891), The King In The...

The Decadent movement in literature, which flourished from the 1880s until the turn of the century, drew its inspiration equally from gothic novels, Baudelaire and the morbid funeraries of Poe, the psychotropic ravages of alcohol and exotic drugs, and the Satanic dream-art of such Symbolist painters...