THE TALE OF WILLY’S RATS
In which Mick Farren went the write-what-you-know route, charting the misadventures of a UK rock group closely patterned on Farren’s own band the Deviants
MONSIEUR DE PHOCAS
A key text of the Decadent Movement of the late 19th Century
THE NIGHT
From France, a fearsome 1970s-era creation that’s outrageous, overwrought, disorienting and downright psychotic by turns
RAW DOG
RAW DOG was released with lurid cover art highlighting the story’s more exploitable elements, but the novel is far richer and more thoughtful than it might seem
TOMIE (Graphic Novel)
An oft-filmed landmark in the field of horror manga that offers an unflattering glimpse into some of the uglier corners of Japan’s national psyche
SIEGE
This novel, a best seller in its day, is a must-read for fans of old school black uprising scenarios of the type written by scribes like Sam Greenlee and Leroi Jones
AFRO-6
Fans of “Kill Whitey” fiction of the 1960s and 70s will note that the premise of this 1969 novel is nearly identical to that of SIEGE by Edwin Corley
MINDBLOWER
This counterculture-infused oddity is far and away the rarest, though definitely not the best, Essex House book
THIRD INSTAR
Another dreamy fantasy from Eibonvale Press, a tantalizing glimpse of a city located quite literally at the edge of the world
TOMORROW, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
A most peculiar fantasy about a woman who finds herself in a world that corresponds to our own but for the fact that life, death, past, present and future all co-exist