PSYCHEDELIC SEX
What a great idea: a profusely illustrated guide to pornography of the psychedelic era, put out by the prestige outfit Taschen!
STAR
A dark and idiosyncratic look at the dream factory, drafted in a highly dense and poetic style (“Explosively Hilarious” it isn’t)
THE END OF ALICE
The fascination with deviance that suffused 1990s fiction gave us first person studies of serial killing (AMERICAN PSYCHO), homicidal foot fetishism (FOOTSUCKER) and, with THE END OF ALICE, pedophilia.
RAW MEAT
An ambitious exercise in science fiction themed smut fiction, and, I’m afraid, not a very successful one
TOPOR AND ME
The only film ever directed by the Dutch actress/artist Sylvia Kristel, and a skilled enough piece of work to make one regret that she didn’t helm anything else
MAGIC MIRROR
A worthy, if frustratingly little known, addition to the underground comics scene
I WAS FLESH GORDON
FLESH GORDON is a film whose behind-the-scenes drama was arguably more compelling than what ended up onscreen, as proven by this book
Pendulous Wood
Ed Wood and Pendulum Books: a match made in Hell?
NIGHTMARE OF ECSTASY: THE LIFE AND ART OF EDWARD D. WOOD JR.
An oral history made up entirely of quotes from people who knew Mr. Wood
THE THEATRE OF MR. AND MRS. KABAL
The debut feature by the great Walerian Borowczyk that’s “meant for adults only”