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DEATH DISCO by David Conway
SEX DEATH APOCALYPSE
Inspired by the Book of Revelations, an enigmatic femme fatale embarks on a campaign of ritual murder, staging her crimes as a series of elaborate rituals steeped in mystical symbolism. Dispensing a deady brand of divine justice, she preys on the member of a decadent elite whose depraved activities recreate the sadistic visions of history's most infamous literary madman.
Investigating the lethal spree, intelligence agent Justine Sinclair is caught in the crossfire between the mysterious killer and a cult of sinister fanatics whose malgnant influence spans centuries. And when the killer's homicidal mision reaches its spectacular conclusion -- a holocaust of apocalyptic proportions --Justine must face the most startling revelation of all...the truth about herself.
"the most powerful and distintive writer of horror fiction since Clive Barker"-- Grant Morrison, author of The Invisibles, The Filth and Doom Patrol.
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KINKY KABUKI by David Conway
"THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE IS THE ONE THAT ACHIEVES MADNESS..." Tokyo. A serial killer known as the Doll Maker is stalking the streets of Kabuki-cho, preying on the prostitutes that work in the city's notorious red light district. Obsessed with obscene fantasies and terriying visions of an apocalyptic holocaust, the killer is a divinely inspired psychopath whose crimes incorporate elements of the occult, Buddhist doctrine and kabuki theatre.
Takeshi Harada, a disgraced former police officer, is hired by a powerful yakuza crime boss to track down the elusive killer. Embroiled in a cycle of sex, violence and murder, the investigation leads Harada through the neon netherworld of the Tokyo vice trade -- its love hotels, image clubs and pink salons -- culminating in a life-or-death confrontaton with the Doll Maker...and a final chiling act of bloody, symbolic justice.
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CELEBRITY BEDLAM by David Conway
TURN OFF, TUNE OUT, TRANSFORM!
"WHEN I HEAR THE WORD CELEBRITY I REACH FOR MY REVOLVER!" The revolution will be televised as the suicide bombing of a TV studio and the symbolic on-stage martyrdom of a charismatic rock star present the world with a startling new phenomenon -- the Radicalized Celebrity.
Investigating a wave of attacks against high profile media targets, lifestyle magazine editor Miranda Blake participates in the Celebrity Bedlam reality TV show, staged in a disused asylum by the controversial psychiatrist, Dr. Eloise Midwinter. And as the program approaches its catastrophic climax, Miranda finally discovers the truth behind the escalating terror campaign and the subversive ideology its visionary founder describes as "a quantum leap into an unimaginable future..."
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TOKYO GOTHIC by David Conway
Tokyo. The city of the future is a neon inferno where an euption of madness and murder exposes a legacy of evil whose roots lie in an unspeakable atrocity committed during the darkest chapter of Japanese history. For Inspector Koichi Sakamoto it begins with the ceremonial suicide of a radical psychiatrist notorious for his controversial theories. His death is the catalyst that triggers a terrifying killing spree perpetrated by a beautiful and mysterious woman known only as Taro. She slays her victims in a series of bizarre rituals incorporating elements of occult symbolism, including a Tarot card and enigmtic haiku left at each scene. Enlisting the aid of Yuki Horiuchi, a gifted young psychologist, Sakamoto uncovers a hidden world of secret societies, political corruption and horrific medical experiments. And as he discovers Taro's true identity Sakamoto is drawn into a dramatic confrontation with the killer and the sinister forces that have motivated her murderous crusade -- a bloodbath of death and desire and the ultimate acceptance of his own inevitable destiny.
Publisher: DOUBLE DRAGON PUBLISHING (Mar 2009)
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THE LUCIFER SYNDROME by David Conway
"BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN..." A crusade of sacrilegious slaughter unleashes a reign of terror that exposes a decadent underworld of vice and depravity lurking beneath the surface of metropolitan London. It begins with a series of bizarre murders pepetrated by a mysterious figure known as the Samaritan. But the Samaritan is no ordinary psychopath. He is an avenging angel, driven by apocalyptic visions to fulil his terrifying destiny.
Investigating the slayings with the help of Dr. Cassandra Stark, a brilliant and enigmatic psychiatrist, Detective Inspector James Verlaine is plunged into a nightmarish world of ritual murder, political corruption and a labyrinthine conspiracy dedicated to an extreme totalitarian agenda. Closing in on this evil cabal, Verlaine learns the truth about the sinister power wielded by a privileged elite that operates above the law...and the horrifying secret spawned in the bowels of an asylum for the criminally insane. And when the Samaritan's true identity is finally revealed Verlaine must confront the forces of darkness, culminating in an eruption of catastrophic violence as the killer's dark odyssey reaches its bloody conclusion.
Publisher: epress-online inc. (2009)
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METAL SUSHI by David Conway
Enter a world of metamorphic delirium, millennial depravity and misanthropic carnage. Like a hybrid monstrosity spawned from and unholy union between William Burroughs, Ignatius Loyola and the Marquis de Sade, David Conway's stories will take you to a dimension of absolute nightmare.
ELOISE
A scientist's obsessions with genetic experiments coupled with an incestuous relationship create the New Race.
MANTA RED
Reality is warped through the Zen Continuum in a crescendo of designer carnage and biological transformation.
METAL SUSHI
Hermaphrodite/amorphibian detective Satori Thule battles an inhuman racial supremacist cult with unforeseen consequences.
BLACK STATIC
Lovecraftian entities are warped through hyperspace to merge with human destiny in a tale that could be described as quantum physics mythos.
"Conway's combination of superheated, superdense prose ... seems made to be snorted rather than read. There are stories here that reveal a vast new world where all flesh is unstable and in flux, all matter fluid ... which seem to yearn towards some inexplicable boundary-shattering apocalypse when we are made monstrous, angelic, unknowable." -- Grant Morrison
Publisher: ONEIROS BOOKS (1998)
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BOOKS
Songs of the Black Wurm Gism - Hymns to H P Lovecraft Edited by DM Mitchell
THE BLACK WURM GISM CULT -- OCEANIC INSECT PORN -- A VORTEX OF COSMIC MAYHEM STALKED BY RAVENING LYSERGIC ENTITIES -- A POST-HUMAN PSYCHEDELIC SEIZURE OF LOVECRAFTIAN TEXT, ART, FRAGMENTS
SONGS OF THE BLACK WURM 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 DM 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 Couthart (introductionary), Grant Morrison, David Britton, Ian Miller, John Beal, David Conway, Kenji Siratori, Herzan Chimera, James Havoc, Reza Negarestani and many others...
Publisher: CREATION; Illustrated Edition (7 Sep 2009)
H P Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark by John Coulthart
John Coulthart is one of H.P. Lovecraft's major visual interpreters. This collection presents all of Coulthart's Lovecraft-inspired work from the last decade including two complete comic strip adaptations -- The Haunter of the Dark and The Call of Cthulhu -- over thrity pages of previously unseen drawings and paintings plus selections from the controversial Lord Horror series Hardcore Horror and Reverbstorm, which have been evolving Lovecraftian imagery in bold new directions.
Material specially created for this volume includes The Great Old Ones, a kabbalah of Lovecraft's gods with accompanying evocations by Alan Moore.
Publisher: CREATION ONEIROS; Illustrated Edition (Sep 2008)
A Serious Life by DM Mitchell
The main voices in A Serious Life belong to DM Mitchell -- his evaluation of the books, comics and records produced by Savoy Books over the past 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 creatons, Lord Horror and Meng & Ecker, the 20 year confrontation of the company with the Greater Manchester Police Force, and the involvement of the 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.
First published 2004 by SAVOY BOOKS
The Starry Wisdom - A Tribute to H P Lovecraft Edited by DM Mitchell
Contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness -- many inspired directly by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes, perhaps unwittingly in their own bizarre subtext. The Starry Wisdom is a long-overdue retrospective, which reveals him to be a true prophet of the 20th Centiury. It will appeal not only to readers of H.P. Lovecraft, but to all loves of innovative art and literature in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Contributors include: J.G. Ballard, John Beal, William S. Burroughs, Ramsay Campbell, David Conway, John Coulthart, Michael Gira, Adele Olivia Gladwell, Rick Grimes, James Havoc, Dan Kellet, 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)
The Twelve Revelations by Steven Severin
Dark erotic poetry by the founding member of the 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)
First published by ONEIROS BOOKS (2000)
Teenage Timberwolves: Lust for Lightning by James Havoc and Daniele Serra
"Danielle Serra's artwork makes Ben Templesmith's 30 Days of Night look like a church picnic. Horrifying and graphic. Bravo!"
-- Del Howison, Dark Delicacies.
In 1795 the survivors of a torture orgy at the Chateau de Selligny in France are attacked by rabid wolves. Badly bitten Guillaume Garou ends up in New Orleans, on hundred years later, as a cannibal necrophile recruited by the Knights of the White Camelia to carry out acts of atrocity and carnage. One hundred years after that, he emerges as the leader of a lightning addicted gang of graveyard shape-shifters, roaming the southern states in search of flesh and bones and vying for survival in a nightmarish grindhouse underworld of vampiric sex covens, serial killers, hellfire lunatics, sadistic bounty hunters, acid-damaged circus freaks, and the resurrected spectres of his former masters.
TEENAGE TIMBERWOLVES: LUST FOR LIGHTNING is the new graphic novella of extreme horror by James Havoc (text) and Daniele Serra (art)
72 Full Colour Pages
Publisher: CREATION BOOKS (31ST October 2009)
DREAM SPECTRES
EXTREME UKIYO-E:
SEX, BLOOD & THE SUPERNATURAL
UKIYO-E: "images from the floating world" were the most popular art-form of 19th Century Japan. Like modern day manga, these images could be mass-produced and were admired by people from all sectors of society, and as in manga, the art of ukiyo-e included significant sub-genres dealing in violence, erotica and horror.
With unflinching images of weird sex, bloody carnage and grotesque demonic ghosts, DREAM SPECTRES is a powerful collection of extreme ukiyo-e, featuring the work of such artists as Yoshitoshi, Ekin, Kunichika, Yoshiiku, Kunisada, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitsuya, Hiroshige and Chikanobu.
DREAM SPECTRES features over 250 amazing full-colour images, including the complete Eimei Nijuhasshuku ("28 Blood Atrocities") of Yoshitoshi and Yoshiiku, and ranging in content from bondage and bestiality to decapitations, demons, dragons and designs for classic irezumi (body tattoos). This is Japanese art not only at its extremes of imagination but often at its most accomplished and innovative. No comparable collection has been published in the English language. With Text by Jack Hunter, author of Eros in Hell.
Publisher Creation-Shinbaku (Mar 2010)
MAGAZINES
Paraphilia Magazine Edited by DM Mitchell and Dire McCain
The constraints and restraints of cultural conditioning are omnipresent, spreading like knotweed into every crevice of humankind's psyche, thus throttling genuine expression at its roots.
Enter, PARAPHILIA, an unlicensed, underground enterprise that renounces established and arbitrary rules, regulations, guidelines, genres, categories, and all other manmade shackles. Paraphilia recognises that expression is a fundamental function of the human organism, and within these walls, it will only be presented in the purest, rawest, most unfettered form. The sole requirement for admission is an open mind, so do come in, we embrace your presence.
Contributors include: Alan Moore, David Britton, Michael Butterworth, Rick Grimes, John Couthart, Chris Bradrick, DM Mitchell, David Conway, Dire McCain, Jim Lopez, Stewart Home, Stephen Sennit, Steven Severin, James Havoc, Michael Roth and many others
"Paraphilia Magazine is among the most innovative and challenging publications available anywhere in the world today -- don't miss it!"
BLACK STATIC -- The UK's Premier Horror and Dark Fantasy Magazine
Black Static magazine publishes some of the finest horror writers working today including Christopher Fowler, Stephen Volk, Lisa Tuttle, Nicholas Royle, Conrad Williams, Simon Clark, Tony Richards, Scott Nicholson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Cody Goodfellow, Melanie Fazi, Matthew Holness, Michael Marshall Smith, Graham Joyce, Gary McMahon, Alexander Glass, Joel Lane to name but a few; alongside new talents such as Aliette de Bodard, Daniel Kaysen, Shannon Page, Roz Clarke, Ray Cluley, Sarah Totton, James Cooper, Nina Allan, Eric Gregory and many more.
"Britain's finest magazine of Dark Fantasy" -- Suite 101