Managed by Malcolm McLaren in the early 1970s, this band have influenced many subsequent glam rock groups. Researched through interviews with all the surviving members of the band and including photographs throughout, the book provides the reader with an insight into the glam rock scene.

Too Much, Too Soon: The Makeup & Breakup of the New York Dolls

Antonia, Nina

Biographies & Memoirs

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

...definitive story of the New York Dolls, the most outrageous glam rock band of them all...tale of rock 'n' roll debauchery told through interviews with the surviving band members

The New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon

Arts & Photography

Music

Omnibus Press

“A drug counselor and the author of In Cold Blood (Johnny Thunders biography) Antonia is the ideal chronicler of Perrett ’s rise and fall. From his time as drug dealer, to the smack sojourn in British punk band The Only Ones, Perrett’s tale is one of self-abuse and staggering selfishness. Antonia’s interviews reveal an individual in a twilight of sex, drugs and narcissism.”—Select Magazine

The One and Only: Peter Perrett, Homme Fatale

Arts & Literature

S A F Pub Ltd

The biographer of Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls and Peter Perrett turns her attention to the heyday of glam rock. As a timid teenager, Antonia weaves her childhood memories of growing up as a glam-obsessed girl in Liverpool, to the time she actually got to meet her idols—Iggy, Thunders et al. A provocative girl’s eye view of the boys in make-up.

The Prettiest Star

Too Much Too Soon is the definitive story of the most outrageous glam rock bands of them all – The New York Dolls. From punk to grunge, practically every new sensation in the contemporary rock scene has been a delayed reaction to the New York Dolls.

Too Much Too Soon: The New York Dolls

Thirteen years after its initial publication, Johnny Thunder's authorized biography has been resurrected and revised. The cult bible of all things Thunders, it is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock 'n' roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers and beyond. It is an unflinching account of a unique guitarist whose drug problems often overshadowed his considerable style and talent, and whose influence on such bands as The Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses is still resonant.

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood

Cherry Red Books

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock’n’roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in 1991. It is an unflinching account of a unique guitarist whose drug problems often overshadowed his considerable style and talent, but whose unquestionable influence on glam, punk, and more still resonates today. 
Nina Antonia discovered Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls as a teenager and spent her formative years as a dedicated fan before starting work on this book in her twenties. Then, when Johnny and his manager read her early drafts, they decided she should make it an authorised biography and granted her unique access to Johnny’s life. As such, it begins by painting a historical portrait of Thunders and his early life and work before shifting into the present tense as Nina vividly describes her own experiences with the real-life Johnny and his associates. 
First published in 1987, Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood has been kept alive over the years by an audience that isn’t always catered for. While the New York Dolls are now rightly acknowledged as having been as pivotal as the Velvet Underground, and you might catch the odd fashionista sporting a Dolls T-shirt, Johnny’s dark flame burns for those who have known adversity. He is the voice of the disenfranchised; he is every gifted son or daughter who went off the rails. Like Jesse James or James Dean, he couldn’t come in from the badlands of rock’n’roll; he wouldn’t appease or kowtow to the establishment. 
This new edition adds a new closing chapter, bringing Thunders’ legacy up to date, new photographs, and a foreword by Mike Scott of The Waterboys.

Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood: The Official Biography: Revised & Updated Edition

Jawbone Press

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This volume, the tenth, contains material by Ludwig Klages, David Beth, Henrik Dahl, Peter Sjöstedt-H, Jesse Bransford, Max Razdow, Christopher Webster, Kendell Geers, Kadmus, Billie Steigerwald, Fred Andersson, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Charlotte Rodgers, Craig Slee, Damien Patrick Williams, Philip H. Farber, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Mitch Horowitz, Ramsey Dukes, Anders Lundgren, Peggy Nadramia, Nina Antonia, Jack Stevenson, Andrea Kundry, Joan Pope, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Vanessa Sinclair, Claire-Madeline Corso, and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as magico-anthropology, sexual magic, eroto-psychedelic art, Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of psychoactive drugs, the occult meaning of the Fenris Wolf in Scandinavian Asatro, joint dreaming, mytho-historical traces within Völkish photography, the magic and influence of African art, disease as magical incentive, Cripkult, daoism, buddhism and machine consciousness, memetic entities, memetic magick, the transformative power of causative thinking, an interview with author Gary Lachman about Colin Wilson and his magical writings, dark Hollywood, Mike “Hellboy” Mignola and the Lovecraft connection, the full story of Benjamin Christensen’s cinematic masterpiece “Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), the full story of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible, the gnostic-alchemical eroticism in the art of Joan Pope, Genesis P-Orridge’s memories of a life of occultural experimentation, and much more...“Wherever we look in and into time and space, there is that one fundamental phenomenon which seems more ingrained and integrated in the human psyche than anything else. Soundly embedded inside the survival instinct, the human being’s relationship to magic has never really disappeared.”– Carl Abrahamsson, from the chapter “Onwards to the Source!”

The Fenris Wolf 10

Politics & Social Sciences

LACHMAN, GARY

HOROWITZ, MITCH

P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer

Abrahamsson, Carl

Nadramia, Peggy

Sinclair, Vanessa

Geers, Kendell

Abrahamsson (Ed), Carl

Pope, Joan

Philosophy

Trapart Books

The Fenris Wolf is a research journal focused on the human mind, developments in comparative magico-anthropology, and on the occultural implications and applications of these fields of study. This volume contains material by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Nina Antonia, Gary Lachman, Erik Davis, Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahamsson, Charles Stansfeld Jones (Frater Achad), Kendell Geers, Jason Louv, Timothy O’Neill, Derek Seagrief, Alexander Nym, Stephen Sennitt, Henrik Dahl, Kasper Opstrup, Antti Balk, Aki Cederberg, Michael Moynihan, Friedrich Hielscher, Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule, Zbigniew Lagosz, Bishop T Omphalos, Johan Nilsson, Gordan Djurdjevic, Carey Hodges, Chad Hensley, Zaheer Gulamhusein, Ingo Lambrecht, Hagen von Tulien, N, Kadmus, Stojan Nikolic, Miguel Marques and Renata Wieczorek on topics as diverse as polymorphous perversity and pandrogeny, Alchemy, Lord Alfred Douglas & Aleister Crowley, Indian erotic art, Polish magicians, rejected knowledge, Intuition, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Crowley & Daoism, H.P Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, August Derleth, Greek mysteries, psychedelic art, New Orleans Voodoo, Kabbalah in contemporary culture, Ritual & Analytical spaces, religious Scientism, death/exit horoscopes, new poetry and much more… A smorgasbord of occulture & delightenment! Trapart Books 2021. 6 x 9” paperback, 334 pages. Cover painting by Andreas Kalliaridis.

The Fenris Wolf 8

Achad, Frater

Davis, Erik

Louv, Jason

Dancing with Salomé unmasks the occult aspects of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated tome The Picture of Dorian Gray, whilst exploring how the unseen manifested not just in the famous author’s life but in that of his love interest, Lord Alfred Douglas. The gilded backdrop to their ill-fated liaison was the Decadent movement, a literary and artistic feast of the divine and debauched which redefined the lines of male beauty. Curiously, Aubrey Beardsley, the most renowned illustrator of the Decadents, refused to keep any of Oscar Wilde’s books in his home, as he believed, like many of his friends, that the playwright was accursed. Beardsley’s theory is not as far-fetched as it seems if one takes into account the doomed lineages from which both Oscar and Lord Alfred Douglas were descended.Through a series of interlinking essays, Nina Antonia takes us to meet the Decadent demi-monde of the 1890’s with whom Wilde and Douglas mingled. Whilst eroticism and mysticism were key themes of the Decadents, there was also a surge of interest in ritual magic, enabled by the flowering of the “Golden Dawn” – the most significant esoteric order in England’s history. Wilde’s wife, Constance, was a member, as was W.B. Yeats, alongside Aleister Crowley and Arthur Machen. All would play a part, directly or indirectly, in the drama of Oscar Wilde’s enchanted & accursed life.

Dancing with Salomé: Courting the Uncanny with Oscar Wilde & Friends

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