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Taken from Juliette, the Marquis de Sade's epic of vice, the episode of MINSKI THE CANNIBAL is one of the most horrific and depraved in all of the author's canon. Whilst venturing in remote mountains, Juliette and her companions are accosted by Minski, a giant who devours human flesh,...

Based on Slavic superstitions of the "midnight dead”, Nikolai Gogol's classic horror story VIY (1835) serves up a macabre mixture of demons, witches, exorcisms and Satanic pacts. VIY was the inspiration for Mario Bava's classic gothic horror film The Mask Of The Demon (1960).

Daniel Defoe's account of piracy, crime and anarchy on the high seas, combining two chapters of his vast General History Of The Robberies And Murders Of The Most Notorious Pirates (1726) - tells the history of Captain Misson, the French teenage rebel whose life as a freebooter eventually leads him...

A collection of illustrated essays on ten top movies featuring the late Oliver Reed, one of England's most famous film stars - and hell-raisers. The book is a tribute to both Reed-s acting skills and visual appeal, and also to his legendary status as a celebrity on the global drinking circuit. Films...

FREAKS (1932) is the sensational horror movie that dared to use real-life "human anomalies” in its tale of greed, betrayal and retribution in a travelling carnival. Dwarfs, pinheads, and the limbless are just some of the grotesque figures that provide Tod Browning's seminal work with its unique...

Dennis Hopper. One of the most talented but controversial actors of the 20th century, almost as notorious for his off-screen alcohol and drug abuse as he was for his roles in such powerful films as his self-directed The Last Movie, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, or Tim Hunter's River's Edge. Dennis Hopper:...

SATANSKIN is the collection of "graveyard erotica” first published in 1992, twenty stories promising "sex magick, lunar mutiny, excremental demonolatry, in utero lycanthropy, sadomasochistic vampirism, oneiric post-mortem malediction, and other bizarre manias”. In Devil's Gold, a transsexual...

Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman’s blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age,...

First published in 1920 by The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, Montague Summers' "The Marquis De Sade: A Study In Algolagnia" is one the rarest of all biographical/analytical texts on the life, works and psychopathology of Sade.

The German Romantic Movement was the first to embrace chaos. Its first theorist was Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829); it was Schlegel who in 1795 expounded a philosophy of the fragment, claiming that the fragment represented a "chaos of everything sublime, beautiful and bewitching”. Inspired by...

The Club des Hashischins ("Club of the Hashish-Eaters”), was a Parisian literary group dedicated to the exploration of drug-induced altered states of consciousness, principally through the use of hashish, a concentrated form of cannabis resin. Notable members of the club, which was active from...

In 1929, the German city of Dusseldorf was afflicted by a horrifying series of brutal, random and often fatal attacks upon women and young girls. With weapons ranging from knives and hammers to his bare strangling hands, a shadowy predator left a mounting trail of sexual assault, carnage and murder in...

First published in an edition of 250 copies only in 1940s France, Count d'Irancy's extraordinary THE NUN is a sacrilegous underground erotic classic which is now translated into English for the very first time. This virulently anti-clerical tale concerns the progress of two young sisters, Agnes and Martine,...

Angela Pearson's WHIP IN MY VALISE is the most notorious of the clandestine SM novels which she wrote for the Olympia Press in the late 1950s and early 60s. Pearson, otherwise known as "Greta X”, brought to her writing the authentic voice of a female sadist, portraying a succession...