IMPORTANT NOTICE JUNE 2011
Our book publishing schedule is currently full until at least January 2012. Although we love reading and supporting new works, please don’t approach us for the time being regarding any book projects you may have – we’re far too busy to give them the attention they most likely deserve. As soon as this changes we’ll officially re-open the doors. In the meantime we’re still accepting submissions for the magazine, as always, and for our gallery as well. A billion thanks and loads of love for your continued support.
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| A DREAM OF STONE (and other ghost stories)
Díre McCain and D M Mitchell
A posthuman ghost anthology from the people who bring you Paraphilia Magazine.
“Their name is legion and they stalk among us. Daily tabloids are replete with pages of phone numbers where, for a fee, we can talk with nameless incubi/succubae. Alternatively, we can venture into the twilight world of the internet, and converse with ‘people’ who may or may not exist – the technological equivalent of planchette and Ouija board. Who knows what’s really on the other end, fastening onto our insecurities, desires, and fears?“
- ISBN-10: 1466437944
- ISBN-13: 978-1466437944
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PARASITE (BOOK ONE)
Parasite Lost
When David Michael K visited The Doctor's office, housed in the mysterious Building, he hadn't anticipated his life tipping into madness where reality melted and stretched and fiction merged with real life. In a satirical romp that sends up postmodernism, popular culture and satirises satire itself, our hero is chased by homicidal drug-dealing clowns, cartoon characters, pink UFOs and creatures of pure nightmare. Is this a serious book disguised as humour? or a joke at the expense of the intelligentsia? Fun stuff.
- ISBN-10: 1453819304
- ISBN-13: 978-1453819302
$13.00 Plus Postage
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THE MEMBRANOUS LOUNGE
By Hank Kirton
Welcome To The Membranous Lounge! Where ugliness and beauty melt and run together, where reality is temperamental and the boundary between “normal” and grotesque is nebulous.
The Membranous Lounge is a zone of slippage, a twilight area between the layers of the world that are familiar and the terrifyingly unknown. It is a chimerical realm inhabited by the hopeless, dispossessed, and those who have simply turned away.
Imagine if Ray Bradbury and Jeri Cain Rossi had a child that they locked away from the world, with only the Marquis De Sade for reading matter, and a dietary intake of bad LSD and atrocious B Movies. The Membranous Lounge would be the spawn of that child’s imagination.
Introduction By Jim Rose (of the Jim Rose Circus)
- ISBN-10: 1452816301
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IABN-13: 9781452816302
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MESSAGES TO CENTRAL CONTROL
Antony Hitchin
Asemic texts from the edges of a sexualised universe. A shifting collage of condensed micro-novels; intense and corrosive uzi-bursts of poetic anti-narrative from some alternative cyberporn universe intersecting ours.
Reading this book is like surfing the shortwave band and finding oneself listening to alien soundtracks.
- ISBN-10: 1453865853
- ISBN-13: 978-1453865859
$13.50 Plus Postage
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TWILIGHT FURNITURE
Posthuman pornography from the publishers of Paraphilia Magazine. Like Beckett’s How It Is crossed with Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden via an Ikea catalogue.
Warning! Reading this book in one sitting might prove to be emotionally disturbing.
- ISBN-10: 1453709835
- ISBN-13: 978-1453709832
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NECROLOGY
By Gary Shipley & Kenji Siratori
An exercise in sensory overload from the minds of Kenji Siratori (Blood Electric, Acidhuman Project, Mind Virus, etc) and Gary J Shipley (Theoretical Animals) that pushes the limits of both human expression and that which can be assimilated in terms of socially-sanctioned pattern-recognition. Self-referring, auto-cannibalistic texts that hover and shimmer around the borders of the asemic, yet still retain a vivid relevance to the current post-human cultural landscape. A cyberpunk katabasis beyond Burroughs or Guyotat. With an Appendix by Reza Negarestani Published by Paraphilia Books
- ISBN-10: 1453706585
- ISBN-13: 978-1453706589
- $13.50 Plus Postage
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THE SEVENTH SONG OF MALDOROR By D M Mitchell
A deranged serial-killer goes on a rampage of sexual atrocity across a Europe falling apart in the wake of an unspecified global crisis. But is he what he seems? A cast of implausible characters in a (to say the least) unreliable narrative push the boundaries of credibility and expression. Dreams and nightmares, desire and delirium, all melt together into a metatextual puzzle. A psycho-sexual anti-novel that owes much to its transgressive ancestors - Sade, Lautreamont, Bataille, Artaud with more than a dash of Burroughs and Lovecraft thrown into the cauldron.
D M Mitchell has edited the anthologies The Starry Wisdom and Songs Of The Black Wurm Gism for Creation Books and is the author of A Serious Life, a biography of transgressive maverick publishers Savoy Books.
Paperback: 186 pages
ISBN-10: 1449518125
ISBN-13: 978-1449518127
$13.00
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QUANTUM GENRE IN THE PLANET OF ARTS
This magnificent e-thology of writing and artwork was offered to PARAPHILIA by our friend Vera Ulea as a publishing project. Due to the logistics involved, we had to decline printing it as a paper book, but Vera (and her contributors) generously suggested that we host it on our site as a free-access electronic document. As regards the nature of the book, to quote Ms Ulea:
"The Quantum Genre is an emerging type of fiction that Darin Bradley calls 'little weird'. Using his term, I would call QG 'weird-weird'. QG is not about the quantum topic but a 'quantum' way of representation of characters and the universe. The theme can be any, including the quantum one, but the technique should be unlike the one we observe in mainstream literature. Therefore, a traditional formulaic language of synopsis required by literary agents and commercial publishers doesn‘t work for QG. The Quantum Work can‘t be sold to them and it has no appeal to the mainstream reader just in the same way as Impressionism or Cubism had no appeal to the general viewer."
This work was designed and edited by V Ulea and all queries regarding it and her proposed idea of Quantum Fiction, should be addressed directly to her: vera@ulita.net
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Read this anthology online above or
download and read at your leisure HERE
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Please explore the following books by friends and associates of PARAPHILIA:
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| CLINICAL BRUTALITY Ed By Christopher Nosnibor
An anthology of poetry and prose that encapsulates the ethos of Clinicality Press and the essence of Clinical Brutality as a mode of writing.
Featuring some of the most exciting up and coming writers, as well as a number of more established cult figures, this collection is a short, sharp shock: clinical, brutal, cutting edge. It’s all about those small, everyday random acts of violence, not all of which are physical or even necessarily entirely tangible, that are common to us all, written in blood using direct, precise and powerful language. This is writing for the post-CSI generation. It’s not for the faint-hearted. Features: Pablo Vision / Kestra Faye / Jim Lopez / Radcliff Gregory / Díre McCain / Stewart Home / A.D. Hitchin / Christopher Nosnibor / Richard Kovitch / Lee Kwo / S. F. Grimm / David Mark Dannov / D M Mitchell / Jock Drummond / Lucius Rofocale / Stuart Bateman / Karl van Cleave / Vincent Clasper / Constance Stadler / Bill Thunder / Christopher Bateman / Simon Phillips / Maria Gornell
Publisher Clinicality Press
Language English
ISBN 978-0-9556939-2-2
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| THE STARRY WISDOM Ed By D M Mitchell
Contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation and madness - many inspired directly by the thoughts and writings of H P Lovecraft, others reflecting his strangely presentient themes, perhaps unwittingly, in their own bizarre sub-text. The Starry Wisdom is a long-overdue retrospective, which reveals him to be a true prophet of the 20th century. It will appeal not only to readers of H P Lovecraft, but to all lovers of innovative art and literature in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Contributors include: J G Ballard, John Beal, William S Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, David Conway, John Coulthart, Michael Gira, Adle Olivia Gladwell, Rick Grimes, James Havoc, Dan Kellett, 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)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1871592321
ISBN-13: 978-1871592320
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SONGS OF THE BLACK WURM GISM Ed By D M Mitchell
(Starry Wisdom Vol II)
THE BLACK WÜRM GISM CULT – OCEANIC INSECT PORN – A VORTEX OF COSMIC MAYHEM STALKED BY RAVENING LYSERGIC ENTITIES – A POST-HUMAN PSYCHEDELIC SEIZURE OF LOVECRAFTIAN TEXT, ART AND FRAGMENTS
SONGS OF THE BLACK WÜRM 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 D.M. 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 Coulthart (introduction), Grant Morrison, David Britton, Ian Miller, John Beal, David Conway, Kenji Siratori, Herzan Chimera, James Havoc, Reza Negarestani, & many others.
Publisher: CREATION; illustrated edition edition (7 Sep 2009)
ISBN-10: 1902197283
ISBN-13: 978-1902197289
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A SERIOUS LIFE By D M Mitchell
The main voices in A Serious Life belong to David M Mitchell—his evaluation of the books, records and comics produced by Savoy Books over the last 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 creations Lord Horror and Meng & Ecker, the 20-year confrontation of the company with the Greater Manchester Police Force, and the involvement of 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.
Hardback
First publication 2004 Savoy Books
ISBN 0 86130 114 5
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