Caligula is the most notorious of the Roman Emperors, a vile degenerate who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed innocent citizens on whims, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award-winning writers Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed document in full the atrocities of Caligula and also the other mad Emperors, including the deranged Commodus and Heliogabalus, the teenage ambisexual sun-god. Also included is a bloody history of Gladiators and that depraved circus, the Roman Arena. This is a shocking catalogue of ancient perversity and decadence. 
The greatest history of Caesaral carnage ever written. -- Bizarre Magazine

CALIGULA: DIVINE CARNAGE (Solar Blood History)

Last, First

Arts & Photography

Glitter Books

Descended from an aristocratic European family, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence on, she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, and by middle age, had regressed to a mirror-fixated state of pathological necro-sadism involving witchcraft, torture, blood-drinking, and more. Her 16th century reign of cruelty remains unsurpassed in the annals of mass murder, with the Countess? depredations on the virgin girls of the Carpathians leading to some 650 deaths id her many castles equipped with torture chambers. This is a true, disturbing case history of a female psychopath, a chillingly lyrical account beautifully translated by Alexander Trocchi, evoking the decadent melancholy of doomed, delinquent aristocracy in a dark age of superstition. The book contains an appendix featuring actual transcripts from Bathory’s trial and has inspired many horror movies, such as Hammer’s Countess Dracula. 
De Sade did not know of Erzs‚bet Bathory’s existence, but doubtless her atrocities would have roused his most vicious excitement. -- Georges Bataille, The Tears Of Eros

BLOODY COUNTESS (Solar Blood History)

Diary of a Geniusstands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dalí, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of Surrealism, the 20th century's most intensely subversive,disturbing and influential art movement. Dalí's second volume of autobiography, Diary of a Genius covers his life from 1952 to 1963, during which years we learn of his amour fou for his wife Gala, and their relationship both at home in Cadaqués and during bizarre world travels. We also learn how Dalí draws inspiration from excrement, rotten fish and Vermeer's Lacemaker to enter his "rhinocerontic" period, preaching his post-holocaustal gospels of nuclear mysticism and cosmogenic atavism; and we follow the labyrinthine mental journeys that lead to the creation of such paintings as the Assumption, and his film script The Flesh Wheelbarrow.
This new expanded edition includes a brilliant and revelatory essay on Salvador Dalí, and the importance of his art to the 20th century, by the author J. G. Ballard.

DIARY OF A GENIUS (Solar Art Directives)

Literature & Fiction

The first, only and complete guide to Elvis Presley's movie career. The King remains a worldwide legend, and his fans love his movies as much as they do his music. From Love Me Tender to Jailhouse Rock to Kid Galahad, each of his most famous film appearances are discussed in depth here: * informative essays * filmography * introduction on Elvis' enduring star power * illustrated with movie stills and an 8-page color section

Elvis: The King on Film

Humor & Entertainment

Lips of Blood is a visual tribute to Christopher Lee's magnetic and enduring portrayal of Dracula, featuring 100 rare colour and black and white photos covering all seven of these classic movies. Each film is also reviewed in full, with details of cast and crew.

Lips of Blood: An Illustrated Guide to Hammer's Dracula Movies Starring Christopher Lee

John, Jewel

Movies

This book includes: scene-by-scene annotation of both Kill Bill movies; overview of director Quentin Tarantino; profiles of all major actors in Kill Bill 1 &amp; 2; profiles of films which influenced Kill Bill; details of posters, trailers, teasers, early screenplay drafts, different cuts (e.g. the uncensored Japanese cut), early casting, etc.; critical reviews of the movies from various sources; interview with actor David Carradine ("Bill"); complete film credits; complete bibliography, index of films; and illustrated throughout, including an 8-page colour section.

Kill Bill: An Unofficial Casebook

Holm, D.K.

Bruce Lee, world-famous "king of kung-fu", remains a legend, one of the most adulated and enigmatic movie stars of all time. Intercepting Fist covers Lee's five major movies, and analyses them with in-depth, illustrated essays. Featuring Big Boss, Fist Of Fury, Way Of The Dragon, Enter The Dragon and Game Of Death, plus a foreword on Lee's life, legend and mysterious death, notes on Lee biopix and the exploitation film industry that arose after his death, and poster section.Intercepting Fist also includes an illustrated history of Hong Kong Martial Arts movies, covering Shaw Brothers classics like Chinese Boxer, Five Fingers Of Death, and Master Of The Flying Guillotine, and stars and directors such as Jimmy Wang Yu, Chang Cheh and Gordon Liu, star of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill". With poster section and select filmography. The book also includes on 8-page color section of kung-fu action.

Intercepting Fist: The Films of Bruce Lee & the Golden Age of Kung Fu Cinema

Freak Babylon is a startling, disturbing documentary of the history of one of mankind’s most fascinating sciences--Teratology, the classification of human anomalies--and its dubious cultural correlative, the Freakshow, from ancient times to the present day. Featuring over 200 rare and intriguing photos of human anomalies, and covering the areas of scientific research, sideshows, cinema and body modification, it also includes a look at the controversial 1932 horror film Freaks, and looks at some famous case histories such as the Elephant Man and Johnny Eck. Freak Babylon shows how medical research and exploitation are often interlinked, and poses the question whether new sciences of cloning and genetic engineering are taking us back to the dark days of man-made freaks.

Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology & Freakshows

Hunter, Jack

Between 1970 and 1974, numerous Japanese film companies - in particular Nikkatsu and Toei - produced dozens of films in a new sub-genre which combined action, sex, violence and crime, and was dominated by ruthless and deadly delinquent females. This sub-genre, which Toei would eventually dominate and define, is now known as pinky violence. With such series as Girl Boss, Girls' High School Terror, and Female Prisoner: Scorpion, as well as individual films like Ranking Boss Rock and Criminal Women: Killing Melody, Toei created a cinematic world filled with nudity, sex, cat-fights, torture, rape and revenge, and peopled by very, very bad girls - renegade cops, girl gang leaders, rebel highschool girls, female convicts - who stripped off their clothes as readily as they pulled out a gun or a knife. TOKYO GRINDHOUSE Volume One is the first English-language book publication devoted to this brief but highly influential 70s movie craze for sexy bad girl action, whose themes have more recently been echoed and revived in films such as Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and Death Proof. The book contains an extensive introductory history by Jack Hunter, as well as illustrated sections on all the main pinky violence series and one-offs. It is printed in full-colour throughout, with over 140 rare images of film posters and publicity shots, plus nude glamour galleries of leading pinky violence stars Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto.

Tokyo Grindhouse Volume One: Pinky Violence Bad Girl Cinema

The Marquis de Sade (1740-1804) is perhaps the most extreme example of a writer whose actual life history has been inextricably confused with the events and characters depicted in his fiction, resulting in the popular perception of de Sade as some mythic personnification of sexual depravity, cruelty and evil. SADOMANIA investigates the zone where de Sade's life, literature and legend most closely collide with cinema. Featuring examinations of the films of directors such as Luis Buñuel, Jesus Franco, Joe D'Amato, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and covering genres from horror, sexploitation and hardcore porn to arthouse and underground, SADOMANIA details a plethora of films that are partially or entirely based either on the writings and philosophy of de Sade, or on de Sade's life, or on some fictional notion of de Sade or his family. Fully illustrated throughout, including an 8-page colour section, SADOMANIA is an adult, comprehensive document of "Sadean” cinema that will inform and inflame fans of erotic film and literature alike. Films covered in depth include: SALO, L'AGE D'OR, and Franco's JUSTINE. Jack Hunter's comprehensive introduction references a further one hundred Sadean films.

Sadomania: Sinema de Sade (CULT MOVIE FILES)

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