In a psychosomatic masterpiece, John Gilmore explores the dichotomy of a young man and woman's wants and desires as opposed to harsh reality. What starts as a simple photo shoot with a beautiful girl, leads Eli Woodrow into a world he never dreamed of, events he never expected, situations he never wanted; a whirlwind of conflicting emotions, sexual obsessions and ambiguity ...Subterranean Hollywood: a convulsing world parallel to the glamour and allure of movie land; lives lived like ricocheting bullets on the fringes, and Gilmore's penetrating, unrelenting prose again finds its target.

Hollywood Boulevard

Literature & Fiction

Gilmore, John

Genre Fiction

Amok Books

The AMOK FOURTH DISPATCH is both a guide to the steamy undergrowths of the well-manicured fiction garden and a thorough directory of the extremes of information in print. Inside this unique document, AMOK fingers the pulse of deviance -- raw data in the form of: forensic medial texts and CIA torture manuals, behavior control techniques, biographies of serial killers and porno queens, fire and brimstone fundamentalist fulminations, Satanist manifestoes and Santeria spellbooks, Nudist Colony guidebooks and psychotronic film directories, human oddities picturebooks and UFO abduction accounts, riot control technologies and AIDS as biological warfare, the abolition of work and Situationism, keeping a severed head alive and creating a false ID, holocaust revisionists as well as the African roots of Western civilization, necrophilia and gay truckstop sex, and countless other manifestations of the bizarre and provocative.

Amok Fourth Dispatch: Sourcebook of Extremes of Information in Print

Reference

King, Brian

Catalogs & Directories

My Sister and I

Friedrich, Nietzsche

Erotica

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experienceâ€“the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and deathâ€“Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this grotesque and still-horrifying 15th-century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts. Gilles de Rais began his remarkable career as lieutenant to the devout martyr and saint Joan of Arc; after her execution, he fled to his estates in the countryside of France, where he began to ritually slaughter hundreds of children. After his arrest and subsequent trials, he was hanged and burned at Nantes, France on October 25, 1440. The latter section of The Trial of Gilles de Rais consists of the actual ecclesiastical and secular trial transcripts, annotated by Bataille, and translated from the ecclesiastical Latin by Pierre Klossowski.

The Trial of Gilles De Rais

BATAILLE, Georges

Classics

Subtitled "A Compendium of Phycho-Physiological Investigation," what you get in the Amok Journal's SENSURROUND EDITION is a collection of reports, articles and general research on autoerotic fatalities, trepanation, Gualtiero Jacopetti, cargo cults, Neue Slowenische Kunst, self-mutilation and amputee fetishism, infrasound and a collection of true emergency room reports called "Psych-Out." All of the material presented here is true. Some of it seems unbelievable but all the reports here are covering behaviors that these people were engaging in willingly (even some of the fatal ones) for the purpose of having some sort of heightened sensory experience. Nearly all of this behavior does NOT involve drugs, focusing more on altered experience through altered body state. Not for the easily squeamish. Despite the extreme subject matter, this volume is highly intelligent and an amazing psychological peek into the fringes of human experiences.

Amok Journal Sensurround Edition

Swezey, Stewart

A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. Shadow is a working-class black man in the ghetto of Newark, NJ. An affair with Terri, a liberal white woman who works at a storefront drug rehab center, begins to throw his sense of the world into turmoil. When the racial and psychosexual tensions inherent in their relationship finally reach the boiling point, Shadow rejects Terri and everything she represents to him and winds up the leader of a rag-tag band of would-be black nationalist urban guerillas. Tragedy ensues when Shadow tries to transform their revolutionary rhetoric into reality on the harsh streets of Newark

A Cold Fire Burning

Heard, Nathan

Contemporary

NSK: NEW SLOVENIAN ART

Last, First

Arts & Photography

Howard Street

Heard, Nathan C.

History & Criticism

Book by Gilmore, John, Kenner, Ron

Garbage People: The Trip to Helter-Skelter and Beyond With Charlie Manson and the Family

Politics & Social Sciences

Kenner, Ron

Social Sciences

A powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-La Bianca), John Gilmore now draws upon his personal experiences to turn his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it extracts from those who would pursue it. With caustic clarity and 20/20 hindsight, Gilmore unstintingly recounts his relationships with the likes of Janis Joplin, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg and Lenny Bruce on the way up and at the peaks of their notoriety. In baring his role in James Dean's attempts to push the bounds of sexual experimentation, Gilmore explores the actor's legendary fascination with speed and death. With hip, vivid prose, Gilmore describes his illuminating and often haunting first-hand encounters with Hank Williams, Ed Wood, Jr., Briggite Bardot, Sal Mineo, Eartha Kitt, Charles Manson, Jayne Mansfield, Vampira, Steve McQueen and many other denizens of the 20th century's dubious Pantheon.

Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip

Humor & Entertainment

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