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Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, sexual encounters and ideas, covering Miller's f...

Containing the first 50 chapters of China's best-loved work, in an edited, yet complete and wholly accurate translation for the Western reader. Volume 1 begins with Monkey's birth, his secret education in the ways of magic at the hands of the Patriarch, his dealings with the Cloud Emperor, the famous revolt in heaven, and the Great Sage's fall and punishment.Then, with a reprieve, Monkey joins the Tang Priest as his guide to India. Paired with...

Three novels by the master of the eerie.Ringstones: Pagan rituals in the rural English countryside. The Sound of His Horn: an alternate future... if the Nazis had won the war.The Doll Maker: Young Clare Lydgate escapes her Oxford school grounds into a world of mystery.

Tale of a maverick American commander, driven insane by stress and the Russian invasion of Hungary in '56, who deceives his men about orders, and sends nuclear bombers to Moscow. The source for Dr. Strangelove.

Collection of books, running in five parts for All-Story Weekly, written by J.U. Giesy. Occult researcher Jason Croft projects himself to world outside Sirius (the Dog Star), where he takes over the body of another and works to save his love and stop an iron-age war using "modern" technology. In the Mouthpiece of Zitu, Croft returns to find his enemies regrouping, and moves to defeat them with more technological toys. The final volume has Jaso...

In her own words, the true account of the dancer, courtesan and spy whose legend has enflamed and fascinated men and women for nearly a century. Born in the Netherlands, Mata gives us her own erotic awakening, her many loves, the dangers that she faced, her imposture as a Javenese princess, the adventures she thrived upon... until her execution as a spy in 1917. Unexpurgated.

First published in 1928 and translated by Jean Rhys. In the Paris underworld, a prostitute and her pimp cavort. In the same house, her sexually immature brother watches disapprovingly, but the man's muddled desires and self-image lead all three down the road to horror.

Existential pornography... Mystical debaucheries... Ruminations tracking through to a delicate hell and back... Bourbon, flesh and celestial flares of chronic laughing hope... Quiet Days in Fremantle, Author JJ DeCeglie with musings on existence, art and sex in the sparkling wastelands of West Australia.

Innocent Captives... Years have past, and many women, young and not so young, have come within the purview of Mr. Punire's judgment and, likely, his lash. He has been many places, seen many things, met many people, rich and poor, and developed his art. Some say he is the greatest artist of his kind, yet he is an imperfect man, a rationalizing animal like the rest of us. Be that as it may, he fights valiantly against those who pretend to do wha...

Urban post-postmodern poems from the avant-pop, avant-porn school of iconoclast literature! Louis Kahn Nin does not heed momma's advice and gets involved with members of the opposite sex who drink too much and live hard lives of broken promises and abject failure-lost children, lost dreams, lost hope, lives like the crashed Exxon Valdez that spill the oil of human dreams. Louis Kahn Nin writes about being in the womb, how he got the scar on hi...

A taboo-shattering story of sweet little Allison, who leans the art of being a submissive sex slave at the hands of her Uncle Jake, later becoming the marked property of her true master, Uncle Sheldon. Three parts under one cover!

Hurrah! At Last a Book About a Nymphomaniac! "I should have been a whore instead of a poet, " voluptuous Ruth remarks to her world-wise bedmate, Bill, who approves. "Better be a whore than a poet. You meet a better class of people." And so back to the Sex Farm. The happy couple leaves the city for a well-earned vacation, intending to cure her nymphomania and his satyriasis... with the same medicine. Although this takes place long before the se...

One of the last books of literary value that nonetheless sent its publisher to prison. This title, written by "Rey Anthony, " attracted the attention of a Robert F. Kennedy, in large part, we suspect, because of its pioneering feminist qualities, and the way its author championed the clitoris as the primary means through which most woman achieve orgasm, as opposed to the sex contained within. Publisher Ralph Ginzburg got six months.

In this sordid collection, four stories are told, and in these stories, four virginal girls lose their innocence and enter the world of sex and debauchery. One girl gets a surprise from her friend's father on her sweet sixteen birthday, a man working on his novel is surprised by a summer nymph naked by the lake, a babysitter succumbs to the illicit desire of Mr. Snake, and another girl wanders the woods and meets three men who have three surpr...

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang-someone! About: A book written to cash in on the success of film actor George Sanders, and ghost-written by Leigh Brackett, whom the supposed author claims never to have met. Stranger at Home is the story of Mike Vickers, back home from the dead, and trying to find out who among his family tried to get him out of the way in the first place.

One of the few '50s-era, Paris books, not by Olympia that's worth republishing. Originally released by the Montmarte-based "Oceanic Press, " Huttning's Linda, for whatever it lacks in editing, more than makes up for it with style, thoroughness and imagination. The Linda of the story is a young girl on holiday at her Uncle Arthur's. Before she meets up with him, there's an encounter with a maid, a young virile cousin, then memorable scene(s) i...

He trafficked in rum and women, this modern-day Al Capone. Clifton Adam's famous tale of bootlegging in Oklahoma, 20 years after Prohibition's repeal in 47 other states. Legendary to this day for its dark account of a man on the wrong side of the tracks out to get what's his, any way he can.

Over-the-top and much-beloved thriller starring Bill Sweeney, an ace reporter with a other-worldly drinking problem who gets mixed-up with a naked woman as the latter is trying to avoid becoming the fourth victim of a local serial killer ("The Ripper.") Surprising elements include an insame asylum, a bum named "God, " and the little statue that ties everything together.

1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the world before it's too late. Then his father doesn't come home one night, and Ed finds out how good he had it. The bulk of the book has Ed teaming up with Uncle Ambrose, a former carny w...

Three murders were too many for Ed Hunter. Not even a dazzling redhead from the carnival's girl show could keep Ed altogether happy--not with a murderer running loose. Then Ed found it was up to him and his Uncle Am to find the killer among the freaks and strippers of the carnival--a killer who chose his victims according to size! Ed and his Uncle Am are back, working in a travelling carnival through the Midwest. Bodies, though smallish in st...