World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1993, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by
Fatal Visions / Northcote
$25.00 - In stock -
Fatal Visions No. 15, 1993 — Angela Dorian cover, features Ari Roussimoff and The Green River Killer, Ringo Lam, Dan Simmons, Cult TV, Chinatown Beat, Melbourne Film Fest '93, Melbourne videostore guide, reviews on everything degenerate in publishing, video, the cinema...
Fatal Visions was a cult horror/exploitation film magazine from Melbourne, Australia, published and edited by journalist Michael Helms between 1988—1998, when publishing still had teeth. Starting out as a photocopied fanzine, the magazine was published two or three times a year, packed with reviews and interviews by a whole host of esteemed contributors, graphic assistance from the likes of Ian and Andrew Haig, branded by Philip Brophy and entirely devoted to "Very Frequent High-Level Violence, Sex, Coarse Language & Drug Use" aka horror, action and exploitation movies, cult TV and publishing, animation and all manner of associated underground trash/freak/sleaze publishing and video culture. Very notable for it's Chinatown Beat content and early coverage of Hong Kong action/exploitation due to its proximity to the Chinatown Cinema theaters in Melbourne. Editor Michael Helms has been writing about horror films made in Australia for Fangoria and contributing to France's L’Écran Fantastique and other international genre press for the best part of the last 25 years. Fatal Visions is great. Features loads of adverts from the annals a lost Melbourne. Self-publish or die.
Good copy, general wear.
1994, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Fatal Visions / Northcote
$25.00 - Out of stock
Fatal Visions No. 16, 1994 — Wicked City cover, features Lance Henriksen, Ren & Stimpy, cult TV in '93, Chinatown Beat, wrestler/porn actress Tiffany Million, Gerard John Schaefer interviews Betsy Blood, reviews on everything degenerate in publishing, video, the cinema...
Fatal Visions was a cult horror/exploitation film magazine from Melbourne, Australia, published and edited by journalist Michael Helms between 1988—1998, when publishing still had teeth. Starting out as a photocopied fanzine, the magazine was published two or three times a year, packed with reviews and interviews by a whole host of esteemed contributors, graphic assistance from the likes of Ian and Andrew Haig, branded by Philip Brophy and entirely devoted to "Very Frequent High-Level Violence, Sex, Coarse Language & Drug Use" aka horror, action and exploitation movies, cult TV and publishing, animation and all manner of associated underground trash/freak/sleaze publishing and video culture. Very notable for it's Chinatown Beat content and early coverage of Hong Kong action/exploitation due to its proximity to the Chinatown Cinema theaters in Melbourne. Editor Michael Helms has been writing about horror films made in Australia for Fangoria and contributing to France's L’Écran Fantastique and other international genre press for the best part of the last 25 years. Fatal Visions is great. Features loads of adverts from the annals a lost Melbourne. Self-publish or die.
Good copy, general wear.
1994, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Fatal Visions / Northcote
$25.00 - Out of stock
Fatal Visions No. 17, 1994 — BAD BOY BUBBY cover, features John Woo, Ringo Lam, EYEBALL in Asia, Melbourne Filmfest Corpse 1994, Chinatown Beat, Ren & Stimpy, The Crow, UFO Dave, reviews on everything degenerate in publishing, video, the cinema...
Fatal Visions was a cult horror/exploitation film magazine from Melbourne, Australia, published and edited by journalist Michael Helms between 1988—1998, when publishing still had teeth. Starting out as a photocopied fanzine, the magazine was published two or three times a year, packed with reviews and interviews by a whole host of esteemed contributors, graphic assistance from the likes of Ian and Andrew Haig, branded by Philip Brophy and entirely devoted to "Very Frequent High-Level Violence, Sex, Coarse Language & Drug Use" aka horror, action and exploitation movies, cult TV and publishing, animation and all manner of associated underground trash/freak/sleaze publishing and video culture. Very notable for it's Chinatown Beat content and early coverage of Hong Kong action/exploitation due to its proximity to the Chinatown Cinema theaters in Melbourne. Editor Michael Helms has been writing about horror films made in Australia for Fangoria and contributing to France's L’Écran Fantastique and other international genre press for the best part of the last 25 years. Fatal Visions is great. Features loads of adverts from the annals a lost Melbourne. Self-publish or die.
Good copy, general wear.
1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 34 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shock Xpress / London
$25.00 - Out of stock
SHOCK XPRESS Vol. 2 Issue 1, Summer 1987 — Sam Raimi & Bruce Campbell Interviewed! Ramsey Campbell Meets Mary Whitehouse! David Cronenberg On Maggot Birth! William F. Nolan's Top 10 Horrors! Joe D'amato Filmography! Herschell Gordon Lewis! Carradine, Chaney & Jerry Warren! Reviews Of: Last House On Dead End Street... The Hunchback Of The Morgue... Evil Dead Six-Breasted Punk Ii... Body Count... Witches In Necropolis And Many More!! Fanzines! Video Reviews! Abnormal Readers' Letters! Ranting! Decay! Dissolution! More Of It!
Shock Xpress was a cult 1980's UK horror/exploitation magazine edited by Skullflower/Ascension guitarist Stefan Jaworzyn, featuring the film writings of Stephen Thrower, Anne Billson, Julian Grainger, George Kuchar, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Jack Stevenson, David Kerekes, David McGillivray, Alan Jones, and Jaworzyn. The launching pad for some of the best genre writers, Shock Xpress covered the excesses of the world of horror, exploitation and all manner of underground cinema, contemporary and historical, through incredible interviews, articles and a wealth of reviews littered with rare film stills, on set and behind-the-scenes photos, lobby cards, posters, cinema adverts...
"Really is the essential guide to exploitation cinema"—Film Review
"Watch out, though, the magazine is nearly undermined by its persistent mean spiritedness towards films and fans alike. Worth the abuse, though."— Chas Balun, DEEP RED
G—VG copy.
1987, English
Softcover (staplebound), 34 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shock Xpress / London
$25.00 - Out of stock
SHOCK XPRESS Vol. 2 Issue 2, Winter 1987 — Frank Henenlotter Interviewed! Riccardo Freda Filmography! Brian De Palma On Being Untouchable! Shaun Hutson's Top Ten Horrors! Tobe Hooper On Chainsaws! Faces Of Death Exposed! Brad F. Grinter Rediscovered! Reviews Season Trashed! Video Reviews! Rabid Of: Combat Shock... Night Of The Sorcerors... The Opening Of Misty Beethoven. River's Edge... Blood Freak...And Many More! Hammer Correspondence! Vileness! Vitriol! Venom! Too Much! Vol. 2 Issue 2. £1.25 Riccardo Freda Tobe Hooper
Shock Xpress was a cult 1980's UK horror/exploitation magazine edited by Skullflower/Ascension guitarist Stefan Jaworzyn, featuring the film writings of Stephen Thrower, Anne Billson, Julian Grainger, George Kuchar, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Jack Stevenson, David Kerekes, David McGillivray, Alan Jones, and Jaworzyn. The launching pad for some of the best genre writers, Shock Xpress covered the excesses of the world of horror, exploitation and all manner of underground cinema, contemporary and historical, through incredible interviews, articles and a wealth of reviews littered with rare film stills, on set and behind-the-scenes photos, lobby cards, posters, cinema adverts...
"Really is the essential guide to exploitation cinema"—Film Review
"Watch out, though, the magazine is nearly undermined by its persistent mean spiritedness towards films and fans alike. Worth the abuse, though."— Chas Balun, DEEP RED
G—VG copy.
1988/89, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shock Xpress / London
$25.00 - In stock -
SHOCK XPRESS Vol. 2 Issue 5, Winter 1988/89 — Interviews With David Cronenberg, Ken Russell, Chris Wicking, And Ray Dennis Steckler! The History Of Biker Movies! A Farewell To John Carradine! All The Dirt On Ruggero Deodato! Director Of Zombie Brigade Confesses All! Demented Sleaze-Monger George Kuchar! Temptation Of Christ...And More! Pitiful Correspondence! Reviews Of The Brain From Planet Arous...The Love Thrill Murders...Night Of The Devils...Jesus: Der Film...The Last Irreverence! Irritation! Irrelevance! Ugh!
Shock Xpress was a cult 1980's UK horror/exploitation magazine edited by Skullflower/Ascension guitarist Stefan Jaworzyn, featuring the film writings of Stephen Thrower, Anne Billson, Julian Grainger, George Kuchar, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Jack Stevenson, David Kerekes, David McGillivray, Alan Jones, and Jaworzyn. The launching pad for some of the best genre writers, Shock Xpress covered the excesses of the world of horror, exploitation and all manner of underground cinema, contemporary and historical, through incredible interviews, articles and a wealth of reviews littered with rare film stills, on set and behind-the-scenes photos, lobby cards, posters, cinema adverts...
"Really is the essential guide to exploitation cinema"—Film Review
"Watch out, though, the magazine is nearly undermined by its persistent mean spiritedness towards films and fans alike. Worth the abuse, though."— Chas Balun, DEEP RED
G—VG copy.
1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 42 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shock Xpress / London
$25.00 - Out of stock
SHOCK XPRESS Vol. 3 Issue 1, Summer 1989 — Jesus Franco! Al Adamson! Clive Barker! David Cronenberg! Frank Laloggia! Eric Red! Plus: Hallucinogens On Film! Transcendental Nightmares! 'Career' Retrospectives On: Chuck Vincent And S.F Brown- Rigg! Weird Films Reviewed: 2 Female Spies With Flowered Panties... Don't Scream, It's Only A Movie...The Impure...What Have They Done To Our Daughters...Voodoo Man... And More! Exultations! Ejaculations! Expostualtions!
Shock Xpress was a cult 1980's UK horror/exploitation magazine edited by Skullflower/Ascension guitarist Stefan Jaworzyn, featuring the film writings of Stephen Thrower, Anne Billson, Julian Grainger, George Kuchar, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Jack Stevenson, David Kerekes, David McGillivray, Alan Jones, and Jaworzyn. The launching pad for some of the best genre writers, Shock Xpress covered the excesses of the world of horror, exploitation and all manner of underground cinema, contemporary and historical, through incredible interviews, articles and a wealth of reviews littered with rare film stills, on set and behind-the-scenes photos, lobby cards, posters, cinema adverts...
"Really is the essential guide to exploitation cinema"—Film Review
"Watch out, though, the magazine is nearly undermined by its persistent mean spiritedness towards films and fans alike. Worth the abuse, though."— Chas Balun, DEEP RED
G—VG copy.
1986, Japanese
Softcover, 90 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Keibunsha / Kyoto
$100.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of this 1986 special edition of Young Idol Now magazine devoted entirely to horror film. At the height of the home video revolution of the 1980s, no-one was more committed to covering the explosion of new American and European horror films than the Japanese. Vividly illustrated with graphic-saturated pages and awesome collage style articles similar to V-Zone magazine, this volume features Nightmare on Elm Street, Demons, Day of The Dead, Dreamscape, Manhattan Baby, Creep Show, The Deadly Spawn, Creature, Fright Night, Beyond, The House Behind The Cemetery, and so many more. Loads of gore and creature imagery, as well as VHS catalogue of reviews of many new (mid-1980's) horror videos, articles behind the scenes (Fangoria), and an essential chronology of horror films through the ages. Published Keibunsha in Japan only, of course.
Good copy with some light wear/bumping.
1986, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Takeshobo Co. / Tokyo
$100.00 - Out of stock
First 1986 edition of this one-of-a-kind fan guide to video horror, compiled by Yoshikazu Takeuchi (b. 1955), author of the 1997 psychological thriller anime, The Perfect Blue, and other horror effects publications. This lavishly illustrated glossy volume compiles a wealth of splatter film stills and information from the height of video gore and exploitation film, with a particular focus on "Blood and Eros that the Theatre Rejected". On top of the explosive blood-saturated spreads of straight-to-video stills, New Horror Beginning includes galleries of forgotten historical horror films documented through the author's extensive collection of posters, lobbycards, pressbooks, and other publications, and countless in-depth film still galleries and review sections showcasing a huge collection of video horror and science fiction, broken down into the Japanese VHS publishing companies of the time that were distributing horror, SF, fantasy genres. A ripper!
Very Good copy.
1986, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 128 pages, 15 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Bandai / Tokyo
$140.00 - Out of stock
Rare copy of 1986's Vivid! Bloody Horror, the amazing Japanese book that collects articles and hundreds of stills, as well as poster art, from the bloodiest of horror film history. Profusely illustrated throughout in vivid gore-saturated colour and b/w with image features on the films of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Tobe Hooper, David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Wes Craven, William Malone... Heavily illustrated articles document the horror films of South East Asia, pay tribute to Tobe Hooper and Herschell Gordon Lewis, survey of prop weaponry, and much more. Includes the "Blood-Stained Cathode-Ray Tube Horror Movie Collection" — the ultimate guide to horror on video. Too much in here to list. The ultimate ode to splatter, and a valuable resource. Texts in Japanese.
Very Good copy.
1997, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 104 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Treville / Tokyo
$150.00 - Out of stock
Scarce copy of the now out-of-print Biomannerism book, first edition, published in Japan by Treville in 1997. An incredible selection of international artists linked through their exploration of new aesthetics of erotic metamorphosis between the organic and synthetic compiled with texts by Stéphan Lévy Kuentz. Features lavishly illustrated chapters dedicated to the works of artists Daniel Ouellette, Michel Henricot, Sibylle Ruppert, Joe Hackbarth, Tsutomu Otsuka, Beksinski, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, H. R. Giger.
"The erotic Biomannerism movement is a creature of the cyberage, an expression of technophobia and fear of mutation. The artists represented here come from the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland, but they share a Kafkaesque view of the human condition, which they express in twisting, writhing, bulging, disintegrating images of the human form. Inspiration flows from Michelangelo, Dali, da Vinci, Rubens, and Duchamp, as well as Blade Runner, Frankenstein, and Intel."
Very Good in VG dust jacket.
2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 31 x 24.8 cm
Published by
FAB Press / UK
$110.00 - In stock -
Italy's Master of the Macabre Lucio Fulci is celebrated in this lavishly illustrated in-depth study of his extraordinary films. From horror masterpieces like The Beyond and Zombie Flesh-Eaters to erotic thrillers like One On Top of the Other and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; from his earliest days as director of manic Italian comedies to his notoriety as purveyor of extreme violence in the terrifying slasher epic The New York Ripper, his whole career is explored.
Supernatural themes and weird logic collide with flesh-ripping gore to breathtaking effect. Bleak horrors are transformed into bloody poetry - Fulci's loving camera technique, and the decayed splendor of his art design, make the films more than just a gross endurance test. Lucio Fulci built up a fanatical following, who at last will have another chance to own this epic book - five years in the making - which is the ultimate testament to 'The Godfather of Gore'.
Since its first publication in 1999, Beyond Terror has sold out three print runs, and continues to be one of the most frequently requested FAB Press reprints.
Without doubt, by far and away the largest collection of Fulci posters, stills, press-books and lobby cards ever seen together in print. We have scoured the Earth to find the most stunning, rare and eye-catching Fulci images.
Out of print for ten years, it's back again in 2018, bigger and better than ever!
Featuring a foreword by Fulci's devoted daughter Antonella, and produced with her blessing and full co-operation, this book is quite simply the last word on Fulci. His whole cinematic career is studied in obsessive depth. Huge supplementary appendices make this volume essential for all serious students of the Italian horror movie scene.
1983, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 27 x 21.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Harmony Books / New York
$140.00 - Out of stock
First edition of Bizarro! by the master of horror make-up, Tom Savini, published in 1983 by Harmony Books, New York.
"Tom Savini not only makes dreams real — he brings nightmares to life."
For the first time master horror artist Tom Savini has put his knowledge of technique and his experience in the field of special make-up effects down on paper in what has become a cult classic. With an introduction by Stephen King and preface by George Romero, Bizarro is both a chronicle of Savini's incredible work and a learning guide for anyone who wishes to pursue special make-up effects as a career (in cooler pre-CGI times). Lavishly illustrated with 400 images (many never seen before, including working sketches), Savini traces his work on-screen and behind the scenes, explaining and exploring all the effects he has created in each of his films, including Creepshow, Friday the 13th, Eyes of a Stranger, The Burning, Maniac, and The Prowler. His effects range from walking corpses to exploding zombies, but he also creates monsters, including Creepshow's Fluffy and Friday the 13th's spine-tingling Jason. Also included are step-by-step make-up demonstrations (shot especially for the book) to offer budding make-up artists and film fans a firsthand look at how cinematic illusions are created.
Thomas Vincent Savini (born November 3, 1946) is an American actor, stunt performer, film director, and prosthetic makeup artist. He is known for his makeup and special effects work on many films directed by George A. Romero, including Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow and Monkey Shines; he also created the special effects and makeup for many cult classics like Friday the 13th (parts I and IV), Maniac, The Burning, The Prowler and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
Good—VG copy with general wear.
2013, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 27.99 x 21.59 cm
Fan re-print,
Published by
Mike Ink / UK
$60.00 - Out of stock
Legendary special make-up effects artist, Tom Savini's books, Grande Illusions and Grande Illusions II, have been entertaining readers and educating the next generation of artists for decades. Now, for the first time, both books are combined into one ultimate guide to the craft and art of make-up effects.
With hundreds of pictures and diagrams, Grande Illusions uses Tom's real world experience on dozens of classic movies to show the readers exactly how he did each effect in an easy to understand step-by-step guide. This book offers budding make-up artists and film fans a firsthand look at how cinematic illusions are created.
Some of the amazing effects that are explained in this book are from legendary films such as: Friday the 13th, Creepshow, The Burning, Maniac, The Prowler, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Monkey Shines, Red Scorpion, Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, Night of the Living Dead (1990) and others.
Using his own films as an example, Tom teaches not only how he did each effect, but also how to do head casts, make case molds, punching hair, sketching, color plates and casting teeth, giving budding artists a full understanding of the craft.
With amazing introductions by fellow legends, Stephen King, George Romero and Dick Smith, Grande Illusions is sure to thrill and entice film fans and become and become a constant companion for new make-up artists.
1989, Japanese
Softcover (six book set all w. dust jackets), 220 pages ea. (approx), 18.2 x 12.8 cm
1st Ed. 6th print,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Shogakukan / Tokyo
$80.00 $60.00 - In stock -
First edition, sixth print complete set of six books from 1989 of the cult classic manga-horror series God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand, written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. One of Umezu's masterpieces, God's Left Hand, Devil's Right Hand is an anthology of five interconnected stories all centered around Sou Yamanobe, a young school boy plagued by nightmares. Visions of totally surreal, demonic body-horror madness rendered in mesmerising detail, the way only Umezu can. The 5 stories are the Eroded Scissors, the Disappeared Rubber, the Tongue of the Spider Queen, the Black Picture-book and Shadow Dead. A masterpiece of the bizarre, "Devil's" initial 1986 publication run began in Big Comic Spirits, a weekly seinen (manga targeted at young adult men) magazine, running for seventy-seven chapters before being completed in 1988 and subsequently published in these wonderful collected volumes, six books in total. Umezu (b. 1936) is a true forefather of the manga-horror genre, publishing his first book while still in high school, leading to immediately make manga his career upon graduation. After moving to Tokyo in 1962 he developed his detailed horror manga style and has since published his comics in a broad range of genres, from horror fiction to science fiction to humour.
A classic! Very Good copies of all six in the original jackets. Light general wear.
1996, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Fantasma Books / US
$120.00 - In stock -
First edition of Spaghetti Nightmares, published in 1996, an invaluable reference book on the subject of Italian horror-fantasy films – often referred to as Giallo films. Compiled by horror aficionados Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta, the book consists of texts, mainly of interviews (translated into English) with major genre icons, filmography, illustrated throughout with stills and movie posters in colour and b/w. An outstanding and rare insight into the artists (directors, screenwriters, actresses, actors, special effects artists, make-up artists ...) and stories behind some of the greatest Italian films and collaborations of the 1970s and 1980s. Includes interviews with Fabrizio de Angelis, Claudio Argento, Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Mario Caiano, Stefania Casini, Luigi Cozzi, Armando Crispino, Ruggero Deodato, Mimsy Farmer, Franco Ferrini, Claudio Fragasso, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Aristide Massaccessi, Luigi Montefiori (George Eastman), Daria Nicolodi, Giannetto de Rossi, Dardano Sacchetti, Tom Savini, Romano Scavolini, Michele Soavi, Terence Stamp, David Warbeck, Bernardino Zapponi.
Very Good copy with crease to back cover.
2023, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 17.8 x 15.24 cm
Published by
Archipelago Books / New York
$44.00 - Out of stock
The ringing of crystal bells heralds the arrival of a beguiling snake, and a student’s descent into lunacy; a young man abandons his betrothed for a woman who plays the piano skillfully but seems worryingly wooden; a counselor’s daughter must choose between singing and her life. Music and madness are tightly wound strands flowing through E.T.A. Hoffmann’s phantasmagoric stories. Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann's wildly imaginative tales offer an unflinching view of human nature and sing clearer than ever in a masterful new translation. Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities of human desire and fear. Hoffman, whose most famous work is "The Nutcracker," is often compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Hoffman's massive influence qualifies him as the godfather of the German Romantic Movement which led to the horror genre. The macabre, fantastical nature of his subject matter inspired a broad swath of culture, with two of the longer stories in this collection "The Sandman" and "The Automaton" influencing Philip K. Dick's original inspiration for Blade Runner. The murder mystery "Mademoiselle de Scudery" is perhaps one of the earliest prototypes of the detective genre story.
Peter Wortsman's masterful new translation allows Hoffmann's distinct and influential style to shine, while breathing new life into stories that seem both familiar and uncanny.
"...the translation is pitch perfect, conveying the fluid passage between quotidian reality and its poetic hinterland."—Joanna Neilly, Times Literary Supplement
Praise for E.T.A. Hoffman
"One can hardly breathe when one reads Hoffmann."—Robert Schumann
"Hoffmann is the unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature."—Sigmund Freud
Prussian-born E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was one of the most influential authors of the German Romantic era. An artistic polymath with a fierce passion for music, Hoffmann spent much of his life struggling to reconcile his career as a bureaucrat with his commitment to his art. His stories, renowned for their combination of fantastic and macabre elements with twisting psychological realism, are often preoccupied with themes of artistic madness and the blurring of lines between the real and supernatural. His works exercised a profound influence on writers such as Balzac, Poe, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, as well as composers such as Schumann, Offenbach and Tchaikovsky.
Translator Peter Wortsman is the author of several short fiction collections and plays, an essay collection, and a travel memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin. His translations from the German include works by Peter Altenberg, Heinrich Heine, Robert Musil, Adelbert von Chamisso, Heinrich von Kleist, the Brothers Grimm and Franz Kafka.
Cover artwork by Alfred Kubin.
2023, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.4 x 12.7 cm
Published by
Apocalypse Party / Philadelphia
$36.00 - In stock -
"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable talent. This book will haunt you."—Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac
"Depraved, stark, and dripping in blood, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty by Charlene Elsby is an experience that demands to be felt. Unique prose, dark musings, and an experimental structure blend beautifully with the layers of grief and bodily autonomy. In the main character's labyrinthine mind, readers will find themselves seduced into what I can only describe as a really messed up coming-of-age story (in all the best, gory ways)."—Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil's Dreamland
"The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty is an astonishing mirage, a novel full of dish soap and restaurant clothes, of summer months and arcane sex, of trailer parks and dishcloths, or cocks and thighs and food processors, fryer grease and the coal-black bodies of Erinyes, of maintenance fees and telephone bills. Elsby taunts and teeters on the rock face of reality and delirium, chaos carnivals where words transmute into data dumps of unreliable memory, into unapologetic rebellion against the literary mundane. A supernatural work of cigarette attitude and wit that shatters the cosmic rollercoaster, a seismic flare-up that left me exhilarated and questioning my own framework of despondency. A welcome addition to the Charlene Elsby manifest. Take a cool walk among the home decor of the Devil, it's lustful, you'll quite like it."—Shane Jesse Christmass, author of Belfie Hell
"Unlike Plato's realm of eternal forms, which he associates with the sun, Charlene Elsby's Devil lurks in the solar eclipse, in the eternal shadows that undergird existence. A bildungsroman unlike any other, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty had me laughing out loud & deeply disturbed. Through surgically precise prose, Elsby conjures a lean & mighty novel set in a trailer park full of memorable characters, devilish disruptions, & a plot that thickens towards an unforgettable finale. I read it in one sitting."—Logan Berry, author of Run-Off Sugar Crystal Lake
"As the unnamed narrator of Charlene Elsby's The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty so wisely observes, "We do define people according to what's been done to them, not what they've done." There are those who fuck, and there are those who are fucked. There are performers and there are objects. And at the center of it all, like the brilliant, blinding core of a burning star, there is the image of Marilyn Monroe, whose beauty belonged only to those around her. With intense and direct language, Elsby reminds us that corrupting forces are always at work, howling mockery at our very desire to be loved."—David Peak, author of Corpsepaint
1991, English
Softcover (staple bound), 72 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The FFM Association / Paris
$70.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of Fantasy Film Memory Presents issue no. 4/5, a special double issue of the FFM film digest / fanzine, published in France in December 1991, and devoted entirely to "The Poet of the Macabre", Italy's giallo gore master Lucio Fulci (1927—1996). This English text book is packed with glossy colour and b/w film stills, lobby cards, posters, on-set photos and other visual documents, with an exclusive interview with Argento by Swedish journalist Thomas Nilsson and extensive Argento profile by genre writer and editor of Giallo Pages, John Martin. Every Argento film up to and including Two Evil Eyes is reviewed. A must for any fan. The "Shockers" series was published in 4 issues between 1990—1991.
Very Good copy.
1990, English
Softcover (staple bound), 36 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The FFM Association / Paris
$60.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of Fantasy Film Memory Presents "Shockers" issue no. 2 of the film digest / fanzine, published in France in October 1990, and devoted entirely to "The Poet of the Macabre", Italy's giallo gore master Lucio Fulci (1927—1996). This English text book is packed with glossy colour and b/w film stills, lobby cards, posters, and on-set photos and other visual documents, not to mention loads of spectacular Fulci mania, accompanying texts and information compiled by Jean-Claude Michel. A must for any fan. The "Shockers" series was published in 4 issues between 1990—1991.
Very Good copy.
1990, English
Softcover (staple bound), 36 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The FFM Association / Paris
$50.00 - Out of stock
Rare copy of Fantasy Film Memory Presents "Shockers" issue no. 1 of the FFM film digest / fanzine, published in France in July 1990, and devoted entirely to Cannibal Holocaust, the controversial cult 1980 Italian exploitation cannibal film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici. This English text book is packed with glossy colour and b/w film stills, lobby cards, posters, and on-set photos and other visual documents, accompanying texts and production details. A must for any fan. The "Shockers" series was published in 4 issues between 1990—1991.
Very Good copy.
1994, English
Softcover (staple bound), 68 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Yellow Press / UK
$50.00 - In stock -
Rare English film digest / fanzine by celebrated genre writer and editor of Giallo Pages, John Martin, "... And You Will Live In Terror!", published by Yellow Press is devoted entirely to Italian master Lucio Fulci's incredible 1981 Southern Gothic supernatural horror film, The Beyond, story created. Written by Dardano Sacchetti, and starring Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck, its plot follows a woman who inherits a hotel in rural Louisiana that was once the site of a horrific murder, and which may be a gateway to hell. It is the second film in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead (1980), and was followed by The House by the Cemetery (1981). The Beyond ranks among Fulci's most celebrated films, and has gained an international cult following. This little book reproduces all of its glory in glossy full-colour and b/w, packed with film stills, lobby cards, posters and other visual documents, accompanying Martin's texts and production details. Martin is an author, editor and authority on the British "video nasties" phenomenon and all things exploitation all'italiana.
Very Good copy.
?, German
Softcover (staple bound), 26 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
? / Germany
$35.00 - In stock -
Scarce copy of X-Rated Taschenbildband Nr. 18 — the unauthorized X-Rated pocket picture book/fanzine for Man-Eater (Der Menschenfresser) also known as Antropophagus, the 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman, who also stars as a cannibal. A cult favourite "fringe horror video audiences", Antropophagus has been described as having "a noted place in the annals of the escalation of gore". The scene in which the titular man eater strangles a pregnant woman, tears out the fetus from her womb and bites into it, made it become one of the infamous "video nasties" that were prosecuted in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, and the "controversy greatly aided its cult reputation". This little German book reproduces all of this in glossy full-colour, packed with film stills, lobby cards, posters and other visual documents, published rather anonymously.
Very Good copy.
?, German
Softcover (staple bound), 38 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
? / Germany
$25.00 - Out of stock
Scarce copy of X-Rated Taschenbildband Nr. 10 — the unauthorized X-Rated pocket picture book/fanzine for In der Gewalt der Zombies or Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi or Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, the 1980 Italian erotic horror film written and directed by Joe D'Amato, filmed in and around Santo Domingo, and starring Laura Gemser and George Eastman. The film was filmed at the same time as Porno Holocaust in Santo Domingo with the same cast. Both films involve a group of foreigners who find an island, have sex, and then are killed off one by one. This little German book reproduces this in glossy full-colour, packed with film stills, lobby cards scans, posters and other visual documents, published rather anonymously.
Very Good copy.