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| Author | : Chris Mikul |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2016-09-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1909394335 |
Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including: William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we’ve all been making a terrible mistake; Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing; Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of ‘vout’; William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley; Rosaleen Norton, Australia’s most notorious witch; Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929; Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs. In writing their stories, Mikul does not judge, but instead celebrates these characters for their fabulous weirdness. For him, they are the “beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity”. The world would be a poorer place without them.
| Author | : Chris Mikul |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2018-07-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1909394491 |
Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook – writer, adventurer, cannibal. • JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth. • The cult that promised eternal life. • The unexpectedly appalling story of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists. • Leonard Lawson – comic book artist and killer. • Padre Pio, Italy’s celebrity stigmatic. • The strange fate of Napoleon’s penis and other illustrious male members. • Ferdinand Sauerbruch – the senile surgeon. • Murder and mayhem among the Hare Krishnas. • The enduring enigma of ‘Somerton Man’. Mikul brings these stories to life in meticulously researched accounts that will amuse, appal and intrigue, and leave you marvelling at the infinite strangeness of human beings.
| Author | : Chris Mikul |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2020-07-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1909394718 |
“I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want.” — Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, Chris Mikul tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century’s most colourful and reviled human beings, including Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il. In each case, he examines the political backgrounds to their rise to power and eventual downfall, but the focus here is on the personalities, peculiarities and private lives of these very strange men. You’ll be amazed and appalled by their effortless cruelties, voracious sexual appetites, absurd personality cults, ostentatious uniforms, promotion of dreadful art and pretensions to being great writers – not to mention their terrible taste in interior decoration.
| Author | : Chris Mikul |
| Publisher | : Headpress |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Alternative lifestyles |
| ISBN | : 9781900486064 |
A funny and entertaining look at outlandish ideas, wacky religious cults and the extremes of human beliefs, both in Australia and overseas. It is a celebration of strange and eccentric lives, with an emphasis on unsung Australian eccentrics, bringing together the best ten years of "Bizarrism" magazine.
| Author | : E. Charles Vivian |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2018-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1605439436 |
Inspector Head, having ascertained that Edward Carter has been shot down at his own door at four o'clock on a January morning, finds in the snow the murderer's footprints, leading to a gate, and stopping there! The tracks do not go on, nor do they reappear anywhere: the murderer, having walked as far as the gate, apparently vanished into thin air! This is the initial problem in a mystery into which is woven the love story of Hugh Denham and Marguerite West - but it is by no means the final or greatest problem of the book. Here is not only mystery, but a very human story. Charles Henry Cannell (1882-1947) was a prolific English author who wrote many mystery, adventure, western and fantasy novels under the pseudonyms E. Charles Vivian, Jack Mann and Barry Lynd.
| Author | : Ambrose Pratt |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2018-09-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1605439568 |
Trade paperback. Dr. Pinsent is translating hieroglyphics in Egypt when he meets up with Sir Robert Ottley, who is searching for the tomb and mummy of the ancient Egyptian priest Ptahmes. Pinsent is intrigued by the excavation - but he is even more fascinated by OttleyÕs daughter, May, who is assisting her father. When the sarcophagus of Ptahmes is unearthed and opened, a bizarre series of events begins to unfold. Pinsent is drawn into the mysterious phenomena, which swiftly develop into something more sinister. Only when Pinsent and the Ottleys return to London do matters take a devilishly threatening turn. Ambrose Pratt (1874Ð1944) was a prolific Australian journalist and author of novels and non-fiction. Later in life Pratt was an outspoken opponent of the White-Australia Policy. His many activities included advocating the inclusion of Australian fauna at Melbourne Zoo; he later became vice-president of the Zoological Society of Victoria.
| Author | : Ralph Trevor |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2018-09-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1605439509 |
Trade paperback. John Vance doesnÕt have a care in the world...except, perhaps, seeing his daughter Pamela married to the right man. Father and daughter live happily at Blacon Grange until one day the post brings a letter from an anonymous writer directing Vance to kill one Martin Stone - a man of dubious character with whom Vance had once been associated. Vance decides to ignore the ludicrous missive. But a phone Õcall received shortly afterwards from Martin Stone leads John Vance into dangerous waters... The ensuing case is investigated by Curtis Burke of Scotland Yard, and Inspector Burke and his men must use all of their deductive skill to unravel a conspiracy whose roots go back to Mexico. ÔRalph TrevorÕ was the pseudonym used by James Reginald Wilmot for his numerous mystery novels. He also wrote romances under the pseudonym ÔFrances StewartÕ.
| Author | : Joyce Snyder |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2015-03-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1909394262 |
Joyce, a sixty-year-old, cat-loving spinster, would never have become a Lifestyle Domme (only Pro Dommes are paid) were it not for her latest work assignment--editing a magazine for submissive men. To research her audience, she investigates FemDom (as Female Domination is called in popular culture). Certain that she’s discovered her true nature, Joyce begins experimenting with various facets of female domination. She begins interacting with submissive men--teasing, humiliating, demanding. Now the youthful appearing Senior is pursued by submissive men far younger and wealthier than she could otherwise attract. Determined to master the art of dominance, she attends a convention of Adult Babies, joins a spanking society, gets served by Sissy Maids, learns how to penetrate a man with a strap-on device, rides a human horse steered by a penis lead, dates a wealthy man who craves electroshocks to his genitals, and acquires a slave. She details many aspects of FemDom including ClubFem (with its slogan “Women Enslaving Men”), male chastity devices, a BDSM resort where women rule, consensual slavery and FinDom (Financial Domination). With her newly acquired kinky expertise and superior attitude, it’s hot and cold running subs for this over-the-hill miss!
| Author | : Brian Whitney |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2017-10-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1909394556 |
Subversive is a book of interviews with fifty-two of the most radical people in the world. From all walks of life, some are famous, while others are almost completely unknown. These are people different to the rest of us. They want the world to change, and they are doing things to change it. Some are activists, some live in such a way that society has to take notice. Subversive doesn’t adopt a sensationalist tone. It approaches its subjects with a curiosity about what they believe in and how they lead their lives. Black Panthers, white nationalists, eco terrorists, unrepentant heroin users, The Cannibal Cop, meth makers, fetish pornographers, war protestors, 9-11 truthers, occultists, political agitators, sungazers, literary imposters, time travellers, virtuous paedophiles, flat earthers, anarcho-primitivists, murderers, and beyond.
| Author | : Tom Crites |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-06-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781909394308 |
A talented artist with a thirst for music and literature, Tom Crites self-published zines and contributed to the small press for over two decades. He designed album covers and t-shirts, but also created art simply because he loved to do it, often leaving his work in public places for others to find. Throughout all of this, Tom struggled with mental health issues. In August 2013, at the age of forty-five, he committed suicide. The artworks collected here were produced by Tom over many years and are representative of his unique and largely unsung talent. Some pieces were drawn at home in his apartment, watching films he would later review for zines or online; others he sketched whilst in hospital. All are suitable for framing. Be forewarned: There are no 'mindfulness mandalas' here, no kitsch exotic flowers to relieve the stresses of your desk job. Here is a darker beauty: macabre mysticism, human-animal hybrids, hallucinatory patterns, a melding of the sublime and the horrific. The works contained in this book are evidence of a symbolic anthropology and they embody the creative spirit that carried Tom through much of his life. Do not colour them lightly.
