We are delighted to offer a line of books in keeping with the publishing programme exemplified by PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE. For the time being these books can only be purchased on Amazon USA, but we are working on expanding their availability.
Our initial offerings will be fiction, and will come in an 8” X 5” size. At some point in the future we plan to publish in different formats, including non-fiction, art books, and graphic novels, etc...
Please send any requests for review material to: paraphiliamagazine@gmail.com
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THE MEMBRANOUS LOUNGE
By Hank Kirton
Welcome To The Membranous Lounge! Where ugliness and beauty melt and run together, where reality is temperamental and the boundary between “normal” and grotesque is nebulous.
The Membranous Lounge is a zone of slippage, a twilight area between the layers of the world that are familiar and the terrifyingly unknown. It is a chimerical realm inhabited by the hopeless, dispossessed, and those who have simply turned away.
Imagine if Ray Bradbury and Jeri Cain Rossi had a child that they locked away from the world, with only the Marquis De Sade for reading matter, and a dietary intake of bad LSD and atrocious B Movies. The Membranous Lounge would be the spawn of that child’s imagination.
Introduction By Jim Rose (of the Jim Rose Circus)
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| ABSTRACTS OF AN AMERICAN PAGEANT Poetic, profound, obscene, sublime...Imagine On The Road rewritten by Captain Beefheart as a Three Stooges script and you might be getting somewhere near to the effect this freewheeling beautiful mess of a book captures. If you could transplant Dante to 21st century California, feed him a massive batch of hallucinogenic mushrooms and kick him naked and freezing onto Sunsick Boulevard, this is what he might write. Profound philosophical discourse sits hand in hand with ribald obscenity, hilarious observation and simply crazed lysergic mania as Lopez recounts, in a series of loosely connected parables, his search for his Beatrice through a maze of unreliable scenarios and unbelievable yet wonderfully human characters. Better than the Bible. Better than Trainspotting. This book heralds the possible creation of a whole new form of literature. "Reading Lopez’s Abstracts of an American Pageant is a disquieting experience, rather like being caught in conversation with a destitute beatnik who - in his voyage to disenlightenment - found his schizophrenic soul hijacked by the voice of Charles Bukowski, the spirit of Walt Whitman, a little of John Rechy’s sleazy romanticism and a hefty dose of the Ole Bill Burroughs routine." James Miller, author of Lost Boys First Published; 2010 PARAPHILIA BOOKS $10.00 plus postage (see below)
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THE SEVENTH SONG OF MALDOROR By D M Mitchell
A deranged serial-killer goes on a rampage of sexual atrocity across a Europe falling apart in the wake of an unspecified global crisis. But is he what he seems? A cast of implausible characters in a (to say the least) unreliable narrative push the boundaries of credibility and expression. Dreams and nightmares, desire and delirium, all melt together into a metatextual puzzle. A psycho-sexual anti-novel that owes much to its transgressive ancestors - Sade, Lautreamont, Bataille, Artaud with more than a dash of Burroughs and Lovecraft thrown into the cauldron.
D M Mitchell has edited the anthologies The Starry Wisdom and Songs Of The Black Wurm Gism for Creation Books and is the author of A Serious Life, a biography of transgressive maverick publishers Savoy Books.
“The Seventh Song Of Maldoror is a vile travesty of civilised literature. There’s not even a coherent story line. It’s as though the Marquis de Sade started writing Monty Python scripts. Pure filth!”
(Michael Winner)
“In A Serious Life, Mitchell deconstructed neocapitalist rationalism; in The Seventh Song Of Maldoror, however, he has reiterated the textual paradigm of context. But the subject is interpolated into a Sartreist existentialism that includes art as a whole.”
(Katie Price – Speaking to Chat magazine Jan 2010)
“This book reminds me of Los Angleles. It’s like a big tide mark where the civilised world has reached its limits and washed back leaving a right fucking mess everywhere.”
(Arnold Schwarzenegger – Governor of California)
Paperback: 186 pages
ISBN-10: 1449518125
ISBN-13: 978-1449518127
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Please let us know what you think of our project, what you like most, what bits you’d change if you could, anything you’d like to see us do, etc...
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And please explore the following books by friends and associates of PARAPHILIA:
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| THE TWELVE REVELATIONS By STEVEN SEVERIN
Illustrated By CATHARYNE WARD
Dark erotic prose poetry by the founding member of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
It's not often that a book can be called a work of art as a whole, but this can. Reading it is a sensual experience, not just a literary one: text, illustrations, and design all combine to unsettle and arouse as Severin's free verse details all manner of physically and mentally demanding sex. It's full of gem-like phrases that would make excellent titles for books of very dark and intelligent pornography: how about "The P*** of Angels"?
(Amazon review)
Binding Paperback
First Published; 2000 ONEIROS BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1902197038
ISBN-13: 978-1902197036
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| METAL SUSHI By David Conway
First book by former My Bloody Valentine drummer David Conway. Like a hybrid monstrosity spawned from an unholy union between William S. Burroughs, Ignatius Loyola and the Marquis de Sade, Conways stories take the reader to a dimension of absolute nightmare. In Eloise, a scientists obsessions with genetic experiments, coupled with an incestuous relationship, create the New Race. In Manta Red, reality is warped through the Zen Continuum in a crescendo of designer carnage and biological transformation. Plus others!
Binding; Paperback
Published; 1998 ONEIROS BOOKS
ISBN-13; 9781902197005
ISBN-10; 1902197003
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ANTIQUE CHILDREN QUARTERLY #1 SPIT ISSUE
Ed By Jim Lopez
Last November I was arrested by an impulse. I wanted to give my friends a gift at the end of an economically bad year, 2009. I wanted them to tell their stories, make their confessions and dump their rants into Antique Children’s first printed quarterly titled SPIT, and wished for them to start 2010 with a clear head and full heart, to look to and work for better times, to develop and master exemplary manners based on their own conditions, with no concern for propriety while avoiding excess for excess’ sake. This is what we came up with: the SPIT issue. Every story contains something that was lost while a greater, more meaningful awareness was gained in a potentially meaningless world and from a very real shitty year. But now we are well into 2010, and though our financial worries have not been elevated nor have lost loves returned it does appear that those who have been hit hardest have sorted them-selves out, tightened their belts and have returned to working; though, not necessarily for money, but rather, working for the sake of their own dignity, working to achieve that which they had always intended on achieving. In short they have rolled up their sleeves and SPIT on the pages of hard times.
(Jim Lopez)
ISBN: 9781451529203
AQC BOOKS 2010
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| CLINICAL BRUTALITY Ed By Christopher Nosnibor
An anthology of poetry and prose that encapsulates the ethos of Clinicality Press and the essence of Clinical Brutality as a mode of writing.
Featuring some of the most exciting up and coming writers, as well as a number of more established cult figures, this collection is a short, sharp shock: clinical, brutal, cutting edge. It’s all about those small, everyday random acts of violence, not all of which are physical or even necessarily entirely tangible, that are common to us all, written in blood using direct, precise and powerful language. This is writing for the post-CSI generation. It’s not for the faint-hearted. Features: Pablo Vision / Kestra Faye / Jim Lopez / Radcliff Gregory / Díre McCain / Stewart Home / A.D. Hitchin / Christopher Nosnibor / Richard Kovitch / Lee Kwo / S. F. Grimm / David Mark Dannov / D M Mitchell / Jock Drummond / Lucius Rofocale / Stuart Bateman / Karl van Cleave / Vincent Clasper / Constance Stadler / Bill Thunder / Christopher Bateman / Simon Phillips / Maria Gornell
Publisher Clinicality Press
Language English
ISBN 978-0-9556939-2-2
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| THE STARRY WISDOM Ed By D M Mitchell
Contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the thoughts and writings of H P Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes, perhaps unwittingly, in their own bizarre sub-text. The Starry Wisdom is a long-overdue retrospective, which reveals him to be a true prophet of the 20th century. It will appeal not only to readers of H P Lovecraft, but to all lovers of innovative art and literature in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Contributors include: J G Ballard, John Beal, William S Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, David Conway, John Coulthart, Michael Gira, Adle Olivia Gladwell, Rick Grimes, James Havoc, Dan Kellett, D F Lewis, Brian Lumley, D M Mitchell, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Mike Philbin, Robert M Price, Stephen Sennitt, Peter Smith, Don Webb, Henry Wessels, Simon Whitechapel.
Publisher: Creation Books; 2nd edition (January 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1871592321
ISBN-13: 978-1871592320
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SONGS OF THE BLACK WURM GISM Ed By D M Mitchell
(Starry Wisdom Vol II)
THE BLACK WÜRM GISM CULT – OCEANIC INSECT PORN – A VORTEX OF COSMIC MAYHEM STALKED BY RAVENING LYSERGIC ENTITIES – A POST-HUMAN PSYCHEDELIC SEIZURE OF LOVECRAFTIAN TEXT, ART AND FRAGMENTS
SONGS OF THE BLACK WÜRM GISM picks up where the acclaimed anthology THE STARRY WISDOM left off and goes beyond – way beyond! – what H.P. Lovecraft dared to show. Editor D.M. Mitchell presents an illustrated brainstorm of visceral deep-sea dream currents, aberrant trans-species sex visions, and frenzied ophidian entropy.
Contributors include:
Alan Moore (cover illustration), John Coulthart (introduction), Grant Morrison, David Britton, Ian Miller, John Beal, David Conway, Kenji Siratori, Herzan Chimera, James Havoc, Reza Negarestani, & many others.
Publisher: CREATION; illustrated edition edition (7 Sep 2009)
ISBN-10: 1902197283
ISBN-13: 978-1902197289
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A SERIOUS LIFE By D M Mitchell
The main voices in A Serious Life belong to David M Mitchell—his evaluation of the books, records and comics produced by Savoy Books over the last thirty years—and the company's founders, David Britton and Michael Butterworth, publishers of the eclectic, the maverick and the marginalised. Here they give their first ever extended interviews concerning the company's history, and state their aims and intentions from Savoy's inception in the early 1970s to the present day, most notably a disdain for anything occupying the middle ground and an insistent advocacy for the merging of High and Low culture.
Topics featured include their personal creations Lord Horror and Meng & Ecker, the 20-year confrontation of the company with the Greater Manchester Police Force, and the involvement of Index on Censorship and Geoffrey Robertson QC in the same, culminating in the defence of their works at the Royal Courts of Justice in 1996.
A Serious Life is an ironic title. It is a friendly book, and an informal read, to be dipped into at leisure by readers. It is hoped it will amuse as much as it will inform, entertain, irritate and confound.
Hardback
First publication 2004 Savoy Books
ISBN 0 86130 114 5
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