Edited by Mark Pilkington
A5 PB, 286pp, £13.99 UK
ISBN 978-0954805432
A third helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed Strange Attractor anthology series.
[cover image, The Electrochemical Glass by Richard Brown]
Contents
| Contra Genesis – Catherine Eisner
Unusual cases of extra-genital conception, extra-uterine gestation, and other anomalous exits
| Burmese Daze – Erik Davis
In which the author submits to the pleasures of a transgender spirit possession festival
| Adventures in the Fourth Dimension – Mike Jay
A Victorian time machine and history’s first theme park ride
| Ego in Exotica Sum – Ken Hollings
In memoriam Martin Denny, crown prince of the exotica sound
| A Psychoactive Bestiary – Richard Rudgley
The joy of zootoxins, from the ant to the giraffe
| Liberté, Légalité, Éternité – David Luke
Some notes on psychonautic misadventures in time
| Kandinsky’s Thought Forms – Gary Lachman
The occult roots of modern art
| Magic Words – Steve Moore
Virgil the Necromancer in mediæval legend
| Abu’l-Qasim al-Iraqi – Robert Irwin
12th century Arab alchemists on the edge
of knowledge
| The Electrochemical Glass – Richard Brown
A slow-evolving artwork from a living alchemist
| The Man Behind the Screen – David Rothenberg
Hans Christian Andersen’s greatest and least-known work
| The Mole of Edge Hill – John Reppion
Joseph Williamson, Liverpool’s tunnelling philanthropist
| La Maison de Poupées – Robert Ansell
A photographic study of a magnificent compulsion
| The Dirty Thirties – Alexis Lykiard
From Arthur Koestler’s Encyclopædia of Sexual Knowledge
| Paint it Black – Stewart Home
Autohagiography of an artist
| Redonda and Her Kings – Roger Dobson
The island life of early science fiction author MP Shiel
| Magic in Paris – Phil Baker
Demons of the opium den in Thirties Paris
| The Dark Man’s Dreams – Doug Skinner
An introduction to Xavier Forneret, Surrealism’s lost poet
| Ghosts: A short Story
by Lady Vervaine
Plus original artworks by Alison Gill, Josephine Harvatt, Betsy Heistand, Katie Owens, Arik Roper.
