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Download or read book Bizarrism II written by Chris Mikul and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook – writer, adventurer, cannibal. • JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth. • The cult that promised eternal life. • The unexpectedly appalling story of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists. • Leonard Lawson – comic book artist and killer. • Padre Pio, Italy’s celebrity stigmatic. • The strange fate of Napoleon’s penis and other illustrious male members. • Ferdinand Sauerbruch – the senile surgeon. • Murder and mayhem among the Hare Krishnas. • The enduring enigma of ‘Somerton Man’. Mikul brings these stories to life in meticulously researched accounts that will amuse, appal and intrigue, and leave you marvelling at the infinite strangeness of human beings.

Download or read book Headpress written by David Kerekes and published by Critical Vision. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading journal devoted to all aspects of popular culture and cult media, Headpress 25 turns its attention to the Dream, or Flicker, Machine. Featuring interviews with William Burroughs and Paul Bowles, Headpress 25 also includes a detailed look at the neglected life and career of the late Luis de Jesus, a star of diminutive stature whose film appearances range from sadistic sidekick in the cult 1976 feature Blood Sucking Freaks, to numerous hardcore porn features, of which the most notorious is The Anal Dwarf.

Download or read book Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture written by Temple Drake and published by Critical Vision. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop culture, alternative, underground or subversive. Updated and revised from the pages of the critically acclaimed Headpress journal, this is an enlightened and entertaining guide to the counter culture - including everything from cult film, music, comics and cutting-edge fiction, by way of its books and zines, with contact information accompanying each review.

Download or read book Headpress written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bizarrism written by Chris Mikul and published by Headpress. This book was released on 1999 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and entertaining look at outlandish ideas, wacky religious cults and the extremes of human beliefs, both in Australia and overseas. It is a celebration of strange and eccentric lives, with an emphasis on unsung Australian eccentrics, bringing together the best ten years of "Bizarrism" magazine.

Download or read book Two Locked Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn written by Max Afford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: