Nominated for the 2022 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Book of the Year\nAt the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film journal and one part anthropological study, seriously critiquing the grindhouse movies that played the theaters of 42nd Street while also documenting the dying subculture that had grown up around them. Profiled in Film Comment and Rolling Stone for his pioneering work, Landis' over-the-top "Mr. Sleazoid" persona and double-life as an adult film star masked the pain behind the excess: a child genius whose intellect alienated him from his peers; a sexual abuse survivor who numbed his trauma with drugs; a consummate outcast who only felt at home among other outcasts. After settling into life as a husband, father, and author in the 90s, it seemed that Landis had turned a corner-but the ghosts of Times Square were never far behind him.\nDead at the age of 49 on the eve of what should have been a successful comeback, his legacy has nominally been forgotten, most of his work lost, and his memory relegated to a footnote in journalism history. Now, award-winning author and journalist Preston Fassel (Our Lady of the Inferno; Fangoria magazine; The Daily Grindhouse) pieces together the full story of his life for the first time, from his turbulent childhood, to his meteoric rise in the New York vice scene, to his tragic demise on the streets of Chicago.\nFeaturing exclusive interviews with Kurt Loder (MTV; Rolling Stone), Michael J. Weldon (Psychotronic Video), Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent Magazine), Carl Abrahamsson, Mike McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies; Teen Movie Hell), and others, plus excerpts from Landis' unpublished autobiographical novella Last Exit in Manattan and a reprint of Landis' seminal Fangoria interview with Andy Milligan, Landis at last pulls back the curtain on one of genre writing's most influential-yet unknown-figures.\nIn that lost, damned, golden age called the 80s, there was a movie star named Bobby Spector and a writer named Mr. Sleazoid. Most importantly, there was a man named Bill Landis. This is his story.

Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street

Biographies & Memoirs

Fassel, Preston

Arts & Literature

Encyclopocalypse Publications

Review\n'Winesburg, Ohio for the 4chan age, Headcheese isn't so much a novel as a living, gasping community, united by dismemberment, like phantom limbs holding hands across the world. Headcheese isn't profoundly disturbing because its characters are fetishistic freaks, but because Jess Hagemann surgically inserts you so deep inside their reality that amputation begins to feel like a fundamental part of the human condition you've been missing out on your whole life. Reading Headcheese is like realizing the chainsaw was the hero of Texas Chain Saw Massacre and that nothing brings us closer to our true selves than understanding what we'd cut away. Jess Hagemann does for dismemberment what Ishmael did for whales-revealing the whole world inside the tiniest details.' 
Newsweek\n'A provocative and ingeniously assembled novel with enough debauched imagination-and perverse reality-to satisfy even the most morbidly curious reader. If this book was a Google search, you'd read it in incognito mode.' 
Katie Rife, A.V Club 
'Jessica Hagemann's years of talent as a ghost writer shine in her fiction debut: these characters are so real and raw they practically bleed off the page.' 
Robert Ashcroft, author of The Megarothke 
'Jessica Hagemann's Headcheese unfolds like a Borgesian model of everything: consensual maiming, mutilation, bondage, domination, submission, power, the human heart and all its shapeshifting ways. Just as classical compilators collected the literary fragments or disjecta membra (literally, scattered limbs) of signal authors, so Hagemann presents a treasury of fiction, fact, fantasy, anecdote, parable, fetish and figure. The result is utterly unexpected: a treatise on amputation which stitches tender links. Obscene but never dirty, the urges of this book are as direct, precise and hygienic as the blade which cleaves and cleaves.' 
Joyelle McSweeney, Action Books 
'A complete collection of psychological mind-fuckery; launching you into the dark depths of body modification and amputee fetishism. Headcheese is a trip down the rabbit hole into a world you've never seen or known.' 
Russ Foxx, Body Piercing & Modification Specialist 
'Chuck Palahniuk writes the House of Leaves of amputee fetishism. Jess Hagemann represents a bold new voice in literary horror.' 
Preston Fassel, author of Our Lady of the Inferno\nThe day that Lorrie "accidentally" cuts off her little toe, she discovers what it's like to be able-bodied and not want that body. 
After Bartholomew loses his left arm to a landmine, he's inspired to start a new kind of church-one where both amputation and sex are types of performance art. 
Trice, a prosthetics engineer, receives the assignment of a lifetime when he's asked to rebuild his son's crippled frame. 
Haunted by the memory of his dead wife, George must take the ultimate measure to excise her ghost. For good. 
From sexual fetish to the clinical diagnosis of Body Integrity Identity Disorder, Headcheese makes the first cut, peeling back the epidermis to peer inside the minds and hearts of 26 people navigating the topography of flesh.\nJess Hagemann is an award-winning author and accomplished biographer. She lives in a quiet Austin neighborhood surrounded on three sides by cows. Headcheese is her first novel.

Headcheese

Literature & Fiction

Hagemann, Jess

Genre Fiction

The Megarothke

Ashcroft, Robert

Literary

Dexter meets Secretary in Michael J. Seidlinger's provocative, disturbing literary thriller that reinvents the serial killer genre, exploring the psychology of desire. Claire studies forensic science, Victor is the Gentleman Killer. Subverting expectations, Clair seduces Victor and keeps him in her apartment as her pet, her darkest secret. Beautifully written, provocative to read, Seidlinger delves into Claire's motivations and impetus to present a compelling psychosexual portrait of a woman obsessed with performance, with power, with sex, and with gore.

My Pet Serial Killer

Seidlinger, Michael J.

Our Lady of the Inferno

Something In The Groove

Rolfe, Glenn

Following the suicide of their best friend, Ethan, high school sophomores Fox and Pete discover a mysterious cave system expanding from the site of his death, the chambers abloom with shapeshifting fragments of Ethan's memories. Racked by grief, the two friends explore the perilous mindscape in search of answers. For Fox, who shared a fledgling romance with Ethan, the quest becomes obsession, the expeditions more reckless, into deeper and wilder recesses where the most precious secrets are guarded by strange beasts.

Warmth

Teen & Young Adult

Amann, Lucas

Warmth (Encyclopocalypse Originals)

Fright Night: Origins

You think you know the whole story, don't you? High school isn't going well for teenage horror fan Charley Brewster. Still dealing with the loss of his father, he finds himself in his first serious relationship with the vibrant and beautiful Amy Peterson. If new love wasn't complicated enough, Charley is also failing Trigonometry. Late one night while cramming for a test Charley spies something suspicious in the yard next door, two men carrying what appears to be a coffin. What's going on in the old Victorian House and who are Charley's new neighbors? Tom Holland returns to the world of Fright Night along with A. Jack Ulrich to lay the groundwork for a brand new trilogy!

Holland, Tom

Ulrich, A. Jack

The Dead Friends Society

Drew and her friends aren't like most college kids.\nThey're dead.\nMurdered in 1998 by a masked killer known only as The Fireman, their spirits are trapped in Greywood House, desperate to escape...until Abbey and her family arrive.\nThe new girl finds herself drawn to their haunting presence, which only makes things worse. Because the dead know what the living can't: The Fireman is coming back.\nAnd this time the ghosts of Greywood House will have to do whatever it takes to stop the next bloodbath, even if it means the end of their afterlives..

The Dead Friends Society (Encyclopocalypse Originals)

HALL, Peter

Gandersman, Paul

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