COWARDS BEND THE KNEE
A typically whacked-out mock silent movie from Canada’s Guy Maddin, one of the most brilliant, visionary filmmakers on the scene
WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES
This heavily illustrated volume is the first-ever English language book devoted to the making and reception of Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 classic HAXAN
THE DOYLE DIARY
Here’s a truly amazing artifact for the ages, a sumptuous reproduction of a sketchbook kept by Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle
THE DANCE OF REALITY
A positively mind-expanding memoir by everybody’s favorite Chilean madman Alejandro Jodorowsky
CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER
A far weirder-than-average potboiler from the sixties. It’s a druggy adventure set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, starring the one and only Vincent Price
KINO DELIRIUM
This is one of the very few books devoted to Maddin and his films, and a must-read volume for fans
A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION
Here’s a real-life account that is in fact stranger than fiction: the 1978 kidnapping of the veteran South Korean film director Shin Sang-Ok and his actress ex-wife Choi Eun-Hee by Kim Jong-Il
FREAK BABYLON
A heavily illustrated book in the mold of Fredrick Drimmer’s VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE and Daniel P. Mannix’s FREAKS: WE WHO ARE NOT AS OTHERS, though not as satisfying as either
VISIONS FROM WITHIN THE MECHANISM: THE INDUSTRIAL SURREALISM OF JEFFREY SCOTT
Another weird art book, and another mind-tugging triumph
THE BYE BYE MAN AND OTHER STRANGE-BUT-TRUE TALES
In which author Robert Damon Schneck proves once again that his ability to dredge up odd and fascinating historical tidbits is unsurpassed