New York: Arizill Publishing, 1967. 98pp., including covers, erotic men's magazine featuring articles, fiction, interviews, and cartoons with a focus on modern lifestyles, sex and sexuality. Illustrated with color nude pictorials. Features: Interview with Edward Albee. The San Francisco Mime Troupe, by H.C. Petley. Jack Ruby and His Dirty Little..... More
New York: Newlook International, 1986. 132pp., including covers, glossy magazine featuring articles, stories and pictorials relating to fashion, films and fads with an emphasis on sex and sexuality. Illustrated throughout with photos in color and black and white, many nudes. Articles include: "The New Arms Race" by Gary Hanauer, illustrated..... More
New York: SXO Corp, 1975. 72pp, including covers. Founded by Hugo Gernsback; published by M. Harvey Gernsback. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Includes: Incest: How It Happens, by Frank Gillon. Today's Bizarre 'Religious' Sex Cults, by Harry Steinberg. Whether Long or Short, Hair Turns You On, by Sandra Thompson..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Shake Books, 1994. 11 x 17" 20pp., including covers, with b/w reproductions throughout. A talboid zine, featured articles: Babes Behind Bars: 'Women in Crime'; Sex, Sin & Scandal: 'Vice Squad'; Roots of Cult: 'Sensation'; Juvenile-Deliquent One-Shots; and Cult In The Seventies: 'Violent World'. More
London: Nexus, 2006. 1st Printing. 236pp. Glossy photo covers. Erotic fiction that features a sex cult and pagan rituals, with some coporal punishment and spanking. Stories of pagan orgies lead a journalist, White, to a remote Scottish village. What he finds there goes beyond his darkest fantasies. Discovering an ancient..... More
London: Nexus, 2006. 1st Printing. 232pp. Glossy photo covers. Erotic fiction that features a sex cult and submission. Lisa is a famous and respectable artist with a secret portfolio of erotic artwork and secret submissive sexuality to match. When word gets out about her ‘special drawings’ she is lured into..... More
(Four items relating to this drug rehabilitiation facility that came in for some harsh criticism on account of its allegedly cult-like qualities and practices.) *A 2-page typewritten letter dated October 21st. 1964 from Dr. John H. DeTar, a urologist of Reno, Nevada, to William Loeb, the editor of the extremist..... More
London: Creation Books, 1995. 4to. 250 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and drawings. More
Dallas: BenBella Books, 2022. 1st Printing. 384pp. "Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries is a true story of contagious deception. It stretches from Hollywood to Quantico, and passes through a tiny patch of Utah nicknamed "the fraud capital of America." It's the..... More
London: Harap, 1973. 1st Edition. 8vo. 264pp. Discusses Scientology and Dianetics, UFO religions, believers in Atlantis, biofeedback, Yoga, Eastern religions, and black boxes. He points out that these systems and groups incorporate technological advances within a theological framework, and that part of their appeal is due to the failure of..... More
Beverly Hills: Hustler Magazine, 1980. 138pp., including covers. Men's magazine featuring articles and sexually explicit pictorials, reviews, and articles. Centerfold model is Tipi (Suze Randall photographer). Features: The Hare Krishnas: Drugs, Weapons And Wealth; Disco Star Grace Jones; and Al Davis: Pro Football's Miracle Worker Jones Nude! Pictorials: Tipi Rocks..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1999. 292 pp. Index, references. Participant observation study of women in Osho's cult. More
London: Arkana, 1973. 276 pp. Aphorisms. More
Burbank, CA: BFG Books, 2010. 397 pp., Index, glossary, map of Scientology compound in Gilman Hot Springs, CA. More
Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 1993. 385 pp. Index. More
New York: Disinformation, 2001. 430 pp. Index, select bibliography. More
Venice, CA: Feral House, 1992. later printing. 147 pp. Introduction by Adam Parfrey. 'At last, the collected wisdom, humor and dark observations by the founder of The Church of Satan. The Devil's Notebook is the first original collection of LaVey's writings to be published in two decades. The High Priest..... More
Los Angeles: SECS Press, 1971. 192pp. Introduction, glossary, bibliography. Illustrated throughout with sexually-explicit b/w photos and color photographic plates. 'An educated study of the psychosexual factors hat cause and influence sex activity through encounter groups.' Includes chappters on: Big Sur. Bioenergetics. Modern Day Evangelists. Nude Therapy. Marriage Workshops. Body Biz..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1966. 140 pp. Index. Illustrated with a few b/w plates. Orage quit his posh London writer job to go to have a midlife crisis of rigorous physical labor and mental discipline under Gurdjieff. More
London: Nexus, 2003. 1st Printing. 246 pp. Glossy photo covers. Erotic fiction that features spanking, and corpral punishment, rope bondage, and a strange cult. More
London: Nexus, 2002. 1st Printing. 243 pp. Glossy photo covers. Erotic fiction that features sex rituals, a demonic cult, and virgin sacrifice. More
New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. 187 pp. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Later Printing. 476 pp. Index. A few diagrams. More
Richmond, VA: (L.H. Jenkins, Inc), 1958. New and revised edition, copyright 1950. One volume. v + 861; 218pp., index. "a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided a backdrop for the degrees by giving lessons..... More
New York: Avon Books, 1987. 123 pp. More