Download or read book Perversions of Horror written by David Holly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in Perversions of Horror present a range of ghastly deviances: quirky, sexy, graphic, homoerotic, disturbing, laugh-your-ass-off funny, and sometimes purely disgusting to any decent minded human. "The Fire Dance of Yog-Sothoth" and the even more repulsive "In Deep Dendo" turn Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos universe into a homosexual thralldom. In "The Book of Unbottomed Bliss" and "Punchkin's Realm," the characters have a hot and hellish time with bizarre sex toys in the deliriously deviant Kingdom of the Damned. "Lord Byleth's Throne" shows the consequences of bargaining your ass with the devil, while "The Devil's Demand" proves that exchanging presents with the devil might bring gifts that the giver never expected. "House of Endless Yearning" and "The Fapping Ghosts" prove that masturbating in a haunted room will have ghostly implications-soon you will join them! In "The Spell" a woman consorts with demons to turn straight men gay, while another demon in "Popo Bawa" demands publicity of the men he penetrates. Gay vampires spin across Haiti in "Bicycle Baka," and it is a charming gay incubus "Who Rides So Late Through Night and Wind" and brings addictive bliss to college boys. Three other college boys fall into a demonic trap in "The Summoning," while heterosexual behaviors are ridiculed and punished in "Found Scribbled on a Roll of Toilet Paper." Meanwhile, an elderly gay man comes to terms with death and eternity in "Cat's Dream."
Download or read book Political Perversion written by Joshua Gunn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, the perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, groundbreaking book Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this "mean-spirited turn" in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion enhanced primarily by the speed of communication technologies. Drawing on insights from critical theory, media ecology, and psychoanalysis, Gunn argues that perverse rhetorics dominate not only the political sphere but also our daily interactions with others, in person and online. From sexting to campaign rhetoric, Gunn shows how technology has changed our ways of relating (and not relating) to others and has engendered infantile and sadistic forms of provocation and enjoyment. In this book, Trump is only the tip of a sinister, rapidly growing iceberg, one to which we ourselves unwittingly contribute on a daily basis"--
Download or read book The Second Perversion written by Bradley Snow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of Horror is a decaying animal. Brick and Mortar Bookstores do not carry horror anymore. The Small Press are run like family businesses and no stirring the pot is allowed. They play it safe by publishing their friends and friends of friends. This leads to horribly boring alleged horror in the Small Presses. Amazon's Createspace is helping to change things. No longer does a potential reader have to settle for paying high prices for inferior work. THE SECOND PERVERSION crashes through the barriers of the boring and predictable Small Press and brings Horror back as a valid genre. Like Tears of Gold, THE SECOND PERVERSION will make you laugh, perhaps a tear or two will be shed, but most of all what the characters go through will surely chill you to the bone. THE SECOND PERVERSION will scare you. It may bring back some memories from your past. It will entertain you. Yes, you will find it disturbing. It will take you on a journey into the bowels of evil. The six innocents who get caught up in the war between good and evil are your normal every day High School students. Tom and Selma are twins who are friends with Al, Bruce, Jaime and Winona. Up until their last vacation together as High Schoolers they never looked at each other in a sexual manner. They are about to graduate and move on with the rest of their lives, probably separately. This is part coming of age story as they become aware that their feelings for each other may be more than friendship. What happens to them after they are captured is one of the most disturbing scenes in Horror. It is also a race against time story. Jeff (from Tears of Gold) has a plant in one of his Mutates. The Plant is there to get as much information as possible. Problem is Jeff has lost track of the Plant. Chris, who is a slowly evolving Mutate, is captured because it is impossible for him to keep his mouth closed. He talks himself into trouble all the time. Chris pissed off the wrong people. He is taken captive from the still secretive other side. Chris has another problem in that sex is constantly on his mind no matter what the situation. Needless to say this also gets Chris into a heap of trouble. Jeff catches a break. They do know roughly where Chris disappeared. Jessica is sent on what appears to be a suicide mission to get captured and find Chris. This will also lead Jeff and the Mutates to the compound they have been trying to locate for a long time. They keep track of Jessica. Jessica joins the party people which includes Tom and Selma. She gets captured along with the rest and are brought to the secret compound. The compound is a place of experiments and nightmare. It stinks of pure evil. Chris finds out what the face of evil looks like. Tom and Selma fall into the soulless pit. THE SECOND PERVERSION is part coming of age, part love story, part Fantasy, and it is ALL Horror.
Download or read book Perversion written by Sahara Kelly and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Alwynne Harbury is a fine example of the miracles science can produce. Her beauty remains untouched even as the years roll by. But the vapors that keep her young have other effects. And when modified by the two greedy scientists behind the formula, the result leads to chaos and unspeakable acts of savagery. While these perversions are destroying lives, others are being saved. Like one certain inmate locked in the depths of what is now known as the Asylum for the Mechanically Insane...
Download or read book Nostalgia or Perversion Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day written by Isabella van Elferen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day presents an interdisciplinary approach to an important aspect of Gothic texts, films, and music: that of rewriting. From the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to present-day vampire films and Goth music, the genre is characterised by its nostalgic reflection on past worlds, narratives, and identities. Gothic nostalgia is often accompanied by a transgressive drive, resulting in perversions of the rewritten past—the modern vampire is no longer embodied evil but an attractive dandy, while Goth subcultures reflect on Victorian aesthetics but pervert them by adding fetishist elements. Gothic nostalgia transforms the past, turning it upside down, foregrounding its background, and corrupting its order. In this volume an international group of philosophy, literature, film, and music scholars investigates the instrumental role of nostalgia and perversion in the Gothic’s rewriting of the past. If elements of both nostalgia and perversion are operative in Gothic rewriting, how are they connected? How do they play out in differing media? How do they change audiences’ views on the relationships between binaries such as past and present, other and self, and norm and deviation? Nostalgia or Perversion brings together the early Gothic novel, present-day female and black Gothic literature, Goth subculture and music, and the imagery of horror films and comic books, thus broadening the definition of ‘Gothic’ from a literary genre to a gesture of pervasive cultural criticism. The interdisciplinary analysis of nostalgia and perversion in Gothic rewriting uncovers wholly new insights into the artistic and social functions of the Gothic, making the volume useful to both scholars and students. As the essays reflect on academic as well as popular texts and media, it is also accessible to general readers. "Nostalgia or Perversion provides a sophisticated analysis of how the Gothic radically rewrites the past, not as nostalgia but as a calculated act of transgression. The past and how its reconstructions break down the boundaries between real and unreal, and normal and abnormal, is examined across a range of different media, including novels, films, comic books, television and music. The essays in this collection also address how this issue shapes Gothic formulations of race, sexuality, and gender. Both ambitious in scope and focused and rigorous in its analysis, this book provides a critically important re-evaluation of the Gothic tradition." —Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan (UK).
Download or read book The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions written by Edgar Allan Pole and published by 8th Circle Press. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Telltale Hardon and Other Perversions, Edgar Allan Pole digs up seven of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-loved stories and gives them a post-mortem makeover. In “The Telltale Hardon,” a college girl seduces her elderly landlord. Things go awry when his heart gives out and the co-ed must dispose of his body, only to be haunted by his ghostly erection. In “The Purple Death,” Pole reimagines “The Masque of the Red Death” as a post-apocalyptic orgy inside Prince’s fortified Paisley Park compound. And in “The Pit and the Pendulous Ballsack,” a condemned man is tortured in a terrifyingly perverse manner. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies jumpstarted the literary mash-up genre; Edgar Allan Pole’s twisted take on classic Poe short stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” will pound the final nail into the genre’s coffin.
Download or read book The Perversion of Three Elemental Components as Illustrated in Four Novels of Horror written by Ramonna Rohoshewska and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flowers of Perversion Volume 2 written by Stephen Thrower and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesús “Jess” Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian the Perverted Virgin. Jesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets. In the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time. Franco's taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as Necronomicon, Vampyros Lesbos, Virgin Among the Living Dead, and Venus in Furs are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco's domain. Stephen Thrower has devoted five years to examining each and every Franco film. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco's career, covering titles including Shining Sex, Barbed Wire Dolls, Swedish Nympho Slaves, and Lilian the Perverted Virgin. Assisted by the esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, Thrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories. Unparalleled in scope and ambition, Flowers of Perversion brings Franco's career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of Jess Franco's labyrinthine film universe.
Download or read book Song of the Sandman written by J-F. Dubeau and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The kind of Gothic/cosmic mashup that would make Arthur Machen and Robert Chambers proud.” ―Shane Keene, Horror DNA & InkHeist After a terrible mass shooting at Cicero’s Circus, the evil presence responsible for the carnage is taken in by a doomsday cult lying in wait for such an opportunity. The village struggles to get back to normal in the aftermath of the shooting. The massacre was the final straw for many inhabitants, triggering a mass exodus. Families left their homes without looking back, not even to find out what could have caused such a tragedy. However, to those who know the truth—that a malevolent god unleashed its wrath upon the village—it’s only a matter of time before events repeat themselves. Venus McKenzie ventures deeper into the pit of secrets left in death’s wake, praying that what she’ll find will help her against the dark forces she couldn’t defeat before.
Download or read book A God in the Shed written by J-F. Dubeau and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Barnes & Noble Best Horror Books of 2017 Pick -Runner-up for the American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017 "One of the most enthralling novels I've read in the last ten years. Dubeau is a force to be reckoned with." —Jerry Smith, Fangoria Magazine and Blumhouse.com "This is the page-turner you've been looking for." —Barnes & Noble The village of Saint-Ferdinand has all the trappings of a quiet life: farmhouses stretching from one main street, a small police precinct, a few diners and cafés, and a grocery store. Though if an out-of-towner stopped in, they would notice one unusual thing—a cemetery far too large and much too full for such a small town, lined with the victims of the Saint-Ferdinand Killer, who has eluded police for nearly two decades. It’s not until after Inspector Stephen Crowley finally catches the killer that the town discovers even darker forces are at play. When a dark spirit reveals itself to Venus McKenzie, one of Saint-Ferdinand's teenage residents, she learns that this creature's power has a long history with her town—and that the serial murders merely scratch the surface of a past burdened by evil secrets.
Download or read book Perverse Titillation written by Danny Shipka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploitation film industry of Italy, Spain and France during the height of its popularity from 1960 to 1980 is the focus of this entertaining history. With subject matter running the gamut from Italian zombies to Spanish werewolves to French lesbian vampires, the shocking and profoundly entertaining motion pictures of the "Eurocult" genre are discussed from the standpoint of the films and the filmmakers, including such internationally celebrated auteurs as Mario Bava, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin and Paul Naschy. The Eurocult phenomenon is also examined in relation to the influences that European culture and environment have had on the world of exploitation cinema. The author's insight and expertise contribute to a greater understanding of what made these films special--and why they have remained so popular to later generations.
Download or read book Disabling Perversions written by Alan Corbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability patient, ways of working therapeutically with patients at all ends of the disability spectrum, and how to support members of the patient's network. Combining psychoanalytic, creative, forensic and systemic thinking, the book provides a template for assessing, managing, containing and treating those who present with multiple diagnoses, including cognitive and physical disabilities, mutism, psychiatric disorders and autism. Both group and individual approaches are examined. As our awareness of the incidence of forensic patients who also have disabilities increases, this work is a timely placing of the forensic disability patient onto the clinical agenda, and has a wide application, being of use to clinicians in the private consulting room, the community, the secure setting and the prison.
Download or read book Night in the Lonesome October written by Richard Laymon and published by 47North. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ed receives word from his college girlfriend that she's in love with someone else, Ed's world changes in a second. Heartbroken and half-mad, Ed goes for a nighttime walk, but on this lonesome October night, he is not alone. There are others roaming the streets, waiting to show Ed just how different his world can be. Some are enticing, some disturbing--and some are deadly, in search of prey.
Download or read book Skin Shows written by Judith Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.
Download or read book Our Dark Side written by Elisabeth Roudinesco and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with it in its own way. The history of perversion in the West is told here through a study of great emblematic figures of the perverse - Gilles de Rais, the mystical saints and the flagellants in the middle ages, the Marquis de Sade in the eighteenth century, the masturbating child, the male homosexual and the hysterical woman nineteenth century, Nazism in the twentieth century, and the complementary figures of the paedophile and the terrorist in the twenty-first. The perverse are rarely talked about and when they are it is usually only to be condemned. They are commonly viewed as monstrous and cruel, as something alien to the very nature of being human. And yet, perversion can also attest to creativity and self-transcendence, to the refusal of individuals to submit to the rules and prohibitions that govern human life. Perversion fascinates us precisely because it can be both abject and sublime. Whether they are sublime because they turn to art or mysticism, or abject because they surrender to their murderous impulses, the perverse are part of us because they exhibit something that we always conceal: our own negativity and our dark side.
Download or read book The Sadomasochistic Perversion written by Franco De Masi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism and surveys in detail the theories of other psychoanalysts. He explores the relationship between sadomasochism and other conditions, such as depression, psychosis and borderline states, and discusses the nature of evil in the broadest way possible.
Download or read book Pluto In Furs written by Scott D Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outer darkness comes Pluto In Furs! An all-original anthology of erotic and unsettling horror. In Pluto In Furs, we explore your most intimate perversions and your most disturbing nightmares and see that they may be the same. An all-star line up of some of the greatest horror writers working today, Pluto In Furs is sure to keep you up late with strange dreams and even stranger desires. This is the next book from Plutonian Press, following the critically acclaimed Phantasm/Chimera. Featuring brilliant cover art from Matthew Revert! Stories by Richard Gavin, Jeffrey Thomas, Devora Gray, Adam Golaski, Kurt Fawver, John Claude Smith, David Peak, Rhys Hughes, Mike Allen, Orrin Grey, Clint Smith, Gemma Files, Thana Niveau, and Brendan Vidito. What strange shapes writhe and moan in the infinite black of space? What aberrant desires and what surreal fantasies do they dream?
