Feral House Publishing: Pulpishness

[DudleySmith]

If you're not familiar with them, it's probably for the best, but if you know who Jim Goad is, the fact that you've heard of him at all means you're into low brow sleaze enough to enjoy some of their stuff. For instance ...

http://feralhouse.com/titles/kulchur/prisoner_of_x.php

... and one of my personal favorites ...

http://feralhouse.com/titles/kulchur/against_civilization.php

Anyways, the home page.

http://feralhouse.com/

Tame stuff these days, I guess, but at least appreciate the cheesiness, if nothing else.

[Breckinridge Elkins]

Yeah well, you can't write that stuff good, after forty, as Jim Goad will learn.

[WFHermans]

Looks interesting, if I would buy one book it would probably be this one:

Voluptuous Panic
The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
By Mel Gordon
8 x 11, 320 pages, paperback, extravagantly illustrated throughout, ISBN 978-0922915-96-5

http://feralhouse.com/titles/images/vp_new_cover_225x_bigcover.jpg

When Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide acclaim and multiple printings. Anticipating the expanded edition, Feral House placed Voluptuous Panic out of print, and for the past year buyers paid as much as $460 to online dealers for a used copy.

This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring clubgoers, filmmakers, historians straight and gay, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson.

Voluptuous Panic’s expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter “Sex Magic and the Occult,” documenting German pagan cults and their bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the “Sexual Fourth Dimension.” The deluxe hardcover edition also includes sensational accounts of hypno-erotic cabaret acts, Berlin fetish prostitution (“The Boot Girl Visit”), gay life (“A Wild-Boy Initiation!”), descriptions and illustrations of Aleister Crowley’s Berlin OTO secret society, and sex crime (“The Curious Career and Untimely Death of Fritz Ulbrich”).

Mel Gordon is also the author of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House), and The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (DaCapo).

[DudleySmith]

Yes. It seems books on the decadence of the Wiemar Republic are in style these days. There are several I want, but not at retail prices; I'll wait and see if I can get them at Half Price or online at a better price. I found Trust No One, one of this publisher's books, a bio on the spy Sidney Reilly, on the dollar shelf on Black Friday, 80 cents at the sale price.

[Breckinridge Elkins]

Always amusing to watch Hermans playing both sides of fence when it comes to Nazism.

[PvtTitus]

Always amusing to watch Hermans playing both sides of fence when it comes to Nazism.

"sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi"

The purpose of the Nuremburg laws. Based upon papal bulls and well pretty much every Gospel.

Catholics like Adolf as soooooo boring imo.