“The Octopus was Casolaro’s name for an intelligence cabal he had documented in his unfinished book. His toe hold was PROMIS, a supersurveillance software misappropriated from a company called Inslaw by Ed Meese’s Justice Department and sold illegally to police agencies around the world. Casolaro’s research looked at bizarre murders among the Cabazon Indians involving administrators of the tribal land; the privatization of CIA dirty tricks through the notorious Wackenhut security firm, the policemen for both the Cabazons and the mysterious Area 51, home of spy planes and rumored UFOs; Vietnam MIAs; manufacturing corruption at Hughes Aircraft; the human-genome project; even the Illuminati secret societies of the 18th century.” Researchers Kenn Thomas (Steamshovel Press) and Jim Keith (Black Helicopters Over America, Secret and Suppressed, etc.) have based their book on Casolaro’s surviving notes as well as interviews, affidavits, court records, congressional documents and ‘non-mainstream’ sources.”

Publisher: Feral House
Hardback: 181 pages
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Investigative research into the likes of electromagnetic and biotelemetric mind control; Nutrasweet and its role in the dumbing of America; the use of cults by intelligence organizations as “cover” for child abuse, arms sales, mind-control projects; The Children of God and the use of the cult by South American dictators and Reagan and Bush; and how the CIA funds covert operations through art looted by the Nazis. AK

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 320 pages

“The purpose of this collection of homicide pictures is to show the work of the peace officer and his problems… after viewing this work it will undoubtedly bring about a better understanding between the law enforcement officer and the public which he serves.” So wrote LAPD Homicide Detective Jack Huddleston in this scrapbook which he kept for over 30 years. In her excellent introduction Katherine Dunn considers at length some of the reasons Huddleston might have kept such a scrapbook, but ultimately his rationale remains a mystery. Readers, beware (forensic fans, celebrate)—the photos herein are as intense as any that as have ever been published and unlike the oddly lovely images in Luc Sante’s Evidence, there’s nothing remotely aesthetic about them. After a single viewing, some of the images will be seared into your brain for the rest of your life, and you’ll wish they weren’t. No other book is remotely like this one. If you want to confront death without walking in front of a bus, this is the next best thing to taking that mortuary job. JW

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 220 pages
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“A texbook case of the classic serial killer gives clues to his personality in this chilling selection of writings, which are from before and during his prison term. Includes stories, fantasies, ‘plans’ and poetry… clearly reveals both Schaefer’s own pathology and that of various prison inmates with whom he was on intimate terms.”

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 192 pages
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A collaborative autobiography by Florida murderer Danny Rolling with “Media Queen” and romancer of serial killers (after they’re safely behind bars) Sondra London. While Rolling has certainly done some nasty deeds, thankfully he has also found Jesus—and when he did kill people he was always possessed by an evil spirit, such as “Gemini.” Perhaps we can all learn from the words of Danny (since he has allowed himself to experience a few forbidden pleasures along life’s way): “Right and good always follow the heavenly. Wrong and evil produce nothing but HELL.” Includes Rolling’s prison drawings as illustrations plus some frightening portraits of his lady-love Sondra. SS

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 250 pages
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A collection of essays—“outlaw anthropology” might be one way to describe the discipline—ranging from the outrageously eccentric to the outright idiotic. Despite the wide array of topics and the varying quality of presentation, the authors appear to be united in their impulse to push the boundaries of the possible, be those boundaries political or religious, psychic or physical. Topics include: “Cut It Off: A Case for Self-Castration”; “Long Live Death!”; “Satori and Pornography: Canonization Through Degradation”; “The Call to Chaos: From Adam to Atom.” Though not as profound as its editor would have prospective readers believe, Apocalypse Culture is an alternately fascinating and repellent survey of beliefs and world-views which defiantly clock in as outside (that’s way outside) the generic and the everyday. Not for the squeamish or politically correct. MDG

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 362 pages
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“The collected wisdom, humor and dark observations” of the bald-headed, bad-boy boss of the Church of Satan. “The High Priest speculates on such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the ‘Goodguy badge,’ demoralization and the construction of artificial companions.” Plus “How To Become a Werewolf.” Sing-along bonus: words and music to LaVey’s Satanic church theme song, “Hymm of the Satanic Empire, or, Battle Hymn of the Apocalypse.” Dedicated to the men who invented the Whoopee Cushion, the Joy Buzzer and the Sneeze-O-Bubble. Who says Mr. Devil Worship isn’t a fun-loving guy? GR

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 147 pages

LaVey provides a worldy how-to manual for the swinging ‘70s succubus, based on his Satanic philosophy of “rational self-interest, sensual indulgence and the constructive use of alienation.” The arcane lore of “Bitchcraft,” “ESP: Extra Sensual Projection,” “The Secrets of Indecent Exposure” and more occult ammunition for the battle of the sexes are revealed herein. SS

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 300 pages

Fascinating and picaresque biography of the infamous and now-hermetic showman-philosopher Anton Szandor LaVey. Live-in Satanic accomplice Blanche Barton tells the tale of LaVey’s checkered past—as carny, burlesque show organist, hoodlum, Zionist gunrunner, circus lion tamer, ghost hunter and crime-scene photographer for the SFPD—which set the stage for his invocation of the Church of Satan on Walpurgisnacht in 1966 and the publication of The Satanic Bible in 1969. She also relates the Black Pope’s erotic dalliances with screen sex goddesses Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. At the same time, The Secret Life of a Satanist reveals LaVey’s demonic insight into humanity, film and all things noir, and the true Satanic music, and discusses the nature of the “Second Wave of Satanism,” which LaVey declares to have begun in 1984. SS

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 262 pages

At first this seems as though it might be a sequel to Apocalypse Culture with an emphasis on “last days” cults, perhaps a written extension of Parfrey’s “Cult Rapture” art exhibit in Seattle. In fact, although there are chapters on real “cults,” such as the followers of Indian God-man Sai Baba and the much-ridiculed Unarius flying-saucer contactee group, much of this book has little, if anything, to do with any type of cult.
The majority of this book reprints Parfrey’s writing that has appeared in such diverse publications as the Village Voice, the San Diego Reader and Hustler. The non-Parfrey material includes Jonathan Haynes’ treatise “The Sex Economy of Nazi Germany,” the weirdest, if not the most bizarre, chapter in the whole book. Haynes is a white supremacist who is convinced that there is a Jewish conspiracy to stop him from getting laid. He gets so mad about it that he kills a hairdresser (for creating fake Aryans by turning hair blonde) and then a guy who sells blue-tinted contact lenses. Before he did this, he sent Parfrey a screed about the Nazis’ policy of government-run Free Love. Parfrey reprints this along with a rundown on the antics of the Cult of One. Also included are chapters on the big-eyed children painters (Walter and Margaret Keane), shock treatment, and James Shelby Downard’s hyperparanoiac Mason-directed mail-order bride exposé, a critique of anti-masculinist Andrea Dworkin, a G.G. Allin interview, and a chapter on human oddities that contains many previously published accounts of questionable authenticity that seem to be repeated solely for the shock value. The second half of the book turns into Militia Rapture as Parfrey turns his attention to right-wing spokesman Bo Gritz, SWAT training camps, Waco conspiracy theorist and hornets-nest-stirrer Linda Thompson, and a low-down on the Oklahoma-bombing conspiracy evidence. TC

Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 371 pages
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