CATASTROPHE
The most famous collection by Italy’s late Dino Buzzati
THE CAGE
I’ve previously crowned CODEX SERAPHINIANUS the strangest book ever printed, but this relic from 1975 gives that tome a serious run for its money in sheer nonlinear weirdness.
THE BLIND OWL (Book)
“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.” That’s the opening sentence of THE BLIND OWL, and it adequately sets the tone for what follows.
BEREAVEMENTS
Eccentric, humorous and decadent: all those things adequately sum up BEREAVEMENTS, with its perversely humorous depiction of grief-born insanity.
AUTOMATIC SAFE DOG
In this novel, the first by English writer/musician Jet McDonald, we’re introduced to the burgeoning industry of Pet Furnishing.
AN EMPORIUM OF AUTOMATA
A most welcome reprinting of a collection originally published in 2010 by Ex Occidente Press, who specialize in extremely expensive limited editions.
FIGHT CLUB at 15
FIGHT CLUB, released in October of 1999, was and remains one of the most outrageously subversive big studio movies of all time.
Roland Topor in English
France’s Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a veritable genius of perverse and surreal literature
J.G. Ballard and the Progeny of HIGH-RISE
In the distinguished lexicon of England’s J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) his 1975 novel HIGH-RISE looms large. A notably brutal yet staunchly intellectual thriller set in a London-based residential high rise whose tenants devolve into lawlessness and savagery,
The Two Davids
David Cronenberg and David Lynch: two visually gifted, unabashedly idiosyncratic filmmakers, both drawn to bizarre and grotesque subject matter