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Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, and Other Curious Sources

By Doug Skinner

£18.99 / £25

170mm x 220mm
272 pages, 2-colour
ISBN: 9781913689858

PRE-ORDERS OPENING SOON

 

In the third and final volume of his personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics, Ken Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected through individual displays of unfettered extravagance that brought them to the very edge of ruin. Each of them lived out their personal ideals of beauty and pleasure – even after the money was gone.

In his reworking of Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, Hollings presents Heaven as a place of rebellious but tragic self-indulgence.

About the Author

Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. As well as the first two parts of the Trash Trilogy, he is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome to Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4 FM. He teaches at the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design.

 

 

Austin Osman Spare Tarot

With thanks to all of you who supported our enormous endeavour we’re now ready to make the remaining elements available for sale to those of you who missed out.

The paperback edition of Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare, is now in full distribution and available from all good booksellers, as well as our own web site.

 

 

We’ll be offering the following editions of the collections, limited to one order per customer.
These are the last 100 copies of each collection and we will never reproduce the additional elements – e.g. the outer box, badge, bag – again.

We have around 1000 decks left for sale, and we are very unlikely ever to reproduce these again.

Orders will be carried via our Greedbag shop.

Prices don’t include shipping from the UK.

Hardback collection – featuring HB Lost Envoy, AOS Tarot Deck, AOS Tarot Sourcebooks, enamel pin badge, cloth bag and four postcards in a presentation box. – £150

Paperback collection – featuring PB Lost Envoy, AOS Tarot Deck, AOS Tarot Sourcebooks, enamel pin badge, cloth bag and four postcards in a presentation box. – £120

Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck: £35

Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare – revised and expanded paperback: £30

Orders of the LE PB book will come with a set of four postcards while stocks last.

Austin Osman Spare Sourcebook: £12

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Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck

Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare
– Revised and Expanded Paperback

AOS Tarot Hardback Collection

AOS Tarot  Paperback Collection

 

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    In Search Of The Third Bird

    Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2021

    Edited by D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen and Justin E.H. Smith

    Available now
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    155mm x 235mm
    HB/PB, 768pp
    45 b/w Illustrations
    16pp colour plates
    ISBN: 9781913689360

    Paperback: £25
    Hardback: £35
    (limited to 200 copies, exclusive to SAP)

    Please note that HB copies may take a few weeks to be shipped as we are awaiting stock.

    A very strange book
    Hal Foster

    It’s…. strange! The prose style suggests that at the time of writing the authors were possessed by ghosts from circa 1900. It totally reads like an act of inverse ventriloquism. Strangely compelling… I can hear it as a very odd performance score and everyone off their tits on laudanum. 
    Emma Bolland

    A great deal of uncertainty—and even some genuine confusion—surrounds the origin, evolution, and activities of the so-called Avis Tertia or Order of the Third Bird. Sensational accounts of this “attentional cult” emphasise histrionic rituals, tragic trance-addictions, and the covert dissemination of obscurantist ontologies of the art object. Hieratic, ecstatic, and endlessly evasive, the Order attracts sensual misfits and cabalistic aesthetes—both to its ranks, and to its scholarship.

    In recent years, however, the revisionist work of the research collective ESTAR(SER) has done much to clear the air, bringing archival precision to the history of this covey of attention-artists who call themselves The Birds. Gathering the best articles of the last twenty years of The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), this volume represents a landmark in the history of aesthetic practices, and will be a point of departure for future work wading the muddy marshes at the limits of historicism.

    “So what, exactly, ARE these nearly 800 heavily footnoted pages? That is very much the question. I’ll have a go at answering it here below…”

    Download a PDF of peer reviews for this unique collection here:

    IN SEARCH OF THE THIRD BIRD – Peer Reviews

    ORDER A COPY HERE

    In Search Of The Third Bird

    Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2021

    Edited by D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen and Justin E.H. Smith

    155mm x 235mm
    HB/PB, 768pp
    45 b/w Illustrations
    16pp colour plates
    ISBN: 9781913689360

    Paperback: £25
    Hardback: £35
    (limited to 200 copies, exclusive to SAP)

    Please note that HB copies may take a few weeks to be shipped as we are awaiting stock.

    Available now
    ORDER HERE

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    Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2021

    Edited by D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen and Justin E.H. Smith

    155mm x 235mm
    HB/PB, 768pp
    45 b/w Illustrations
    16pp colour plates
    ISBN: 9781913689360

    Paperback: £25
    Hardback: £35
    (limited to 200 copies, exclusive to SAP)

    London’s Lost Rivers Volumes One and Two

    London’s Lost Rivers Volumes One and Two
    By Tom Bolton
    Photography by SF Said

    Vol 1:
    Foreword by Chris Fowler
    PB, 280pp ,illustrated,  £11.99
    ISBN 978 1907222030

    Vol 2:
    Foreword by Tom Holland
    PB, 304pp, illustrated,  £11.99.
    ISBN 978 1907222856

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    “Urban topography and history come vividly alive. There is no better way of exploring a city. And there is no better guide to it than Tom Bolton. No guide book to London has given me greater enjoyment'” Tom Holland

    “Tom Bolton carves out his own channel with some proper hardcore research and a wealth of detail, all beautifully written up into walking routes. He’ll have you looking for dips in the road, listening at drain covers and analysing street names in search of buried water.” Londonist

    ‘a terrific mix of history, topography and practicality… astonishingly diligent… highly recommended’ The Great Wen

    London’s Lost Rivers Volumes One and Two take the reader on a series of walks along the routes of 19 lost rivers, combining directions for walkers with richly detailed anecdotes outlining the history of each river’s route, origins and decline.

    Tom Bolton reveals a secret network that spreads across the city, from picturesque Hampstead in the North to the hidden suburbs of South London, and runs beneath some of London’s most iconic and historic sites.

    These walks trace the routes of buried rivers, tracking the impression they have left on the landscape and cityscape of London. Walks include the little-known Cock and Pye Ditch that shaped Covent Garden, Tottenham’s Moselle River (not to be confused with the French version), the East End’s unsavoury-sounding Black Ditch, and the mysterious channels of the Stamford Brook which hold West London in a tangled embrace.

    Accompanied by SF Said’s haunting and evocative Polaroid photographs, this guidebook tracks routes that are recorded on no map, stripping back the layers to reveal London’s veins and arteries.

    About the Author

    Tom Bolton is a researcher, walker and photographer who has lived and worked in London since 1996. He also writes online about theatre and music. His second book, Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods, and the first volume of London’s Lost Rivers, are available now from Strange Attractor Press.

     

    Flowers of Perversion

    The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
    Volume Two

    By Stephen Thrower

    HB 512pp
    240mm x 269mm
    £45.00 / £65
    520 images,
    Full colour throughout 

    ISBN: 9781907222603

    Available Mid-November in Standard and Collectors’ Editions.
    The Collectors’ Edition of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and…

    The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco
    A 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of Mandinga in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won’t be repeated.

    This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco’s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   

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    The second volume in Stephen Thrower’s monumental study of Jess Franco’s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.

    Jesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.

    Stephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco’s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.

    In the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.

    Franco’s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as Shining Sex, Barbed Wire Dolls, Ilsa The Wicked Warden and Bloody Moon are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco’s domain.

    Thrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.

    Unparalleled in scope and ambition, Flowers of Perversion brings Jess Franco’s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.

    PRE-ORDER HERE

    Murderous Passion, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.

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    Autumn arrivals

    We finally have news of new arrivals for the Autumn, all of these titles will appear between mid October and Mid November, so watch this space for more information.

     

     

    Save The Horse Hospital!

    HHdes

    The Horse Hospital is the birthplace of Strange Attractor, and its spiritual home.

    We have managed to negotiate a contract to stay here and continue with our scheduled program until the end of March 2015. Although it leaves us no time at all, we have decided to do everything within our capacity to secure the building and somehow or other raise the necessary funds.

    The Horse Hospital as an arts organization is intrinsically tied into the fabric of the building and in 2004 under the imminent threat of redevelopment, we thoroughly researched the history of this beautiful building and upon application to English Heritage it was promptly awarded a Grade 2, making The Horse Hospital a slightly less attractive prospect for property developers, we hoped..!

    Built originally by James Burton in 1797 as stabling for cabby’s sick horses, The Horse Hospital is the only existing unspoilt example of a two-floor, purpose-built stable remaining for public access in London and is now an important Grade II listed building which has operated a Not For Profit policy, and provided space for underground and Avant-Garde media since 1993. It also houses and is supported by the ‘Contemporary Wardrobe Collection’, a fashion archive that specialises in post-war street fashion, sub-cultures and British design.

    So, however challenging it has been, the rewards of being nonpartisan keepers of culture in this magnificent and idiosyncratic building have been manifold and profound. We are incredibly proud of the fact that since 1993 we have not only been fortunate enough to have shown a vast amount of amazing work by some of the underworlds true visionaries such as Joe Coleman, Helen Chadwick, Brice Dellsperger, Dennis Cooper, Cameron Jamie, Laurie Lipton, Bruce Bickford, Gee Vaucher & Crass, Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm McLaren, Franko B, Morton Bartlett, Craig Baldwin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lydia Lunch, Bjaarne Melgard to name but a few, but that we have 
also had the privilege to support and introduce literally hundreds of obscure artists, performers, filmmakers and writers, who may otherwise have been denied a voice by more mainstream organisations, to an ever-growing, receptive and appreciative audience.

    Whether we can raise that kind of money remains to be seen, but having invested over 20 years in the building we intend to do everything in our power to make it happen, it’s a massive task but we remain firmly optimistic that with everyone’s help it is possible.

    In a climate where any grass roots, alternative or independent endeavours are being swept away into the dust of history it is vital that the spirit and ethos that we wholeheartedly embrace as an organization is given a chance to survive in these ever more capitalist, corporate and homogenous times.

    Any and all suggestions welcome to: popculture@thehorsehospital.com