Our latest releases
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REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE – Richard Harding Davis
“They ended up with zero skills in civilian fields, but they could kill other people, and getting paid was a bonus.“ Whenever in any part of the world a military conflict raged, the procedure of mercenaries invariably was the same. As adventurers with a fondness for violence, hairy situations, and thrill-seeking, they experienced face-to-face battle, […] Read more …
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YOU CAN’T WIN – Jack Black
You Can’t Win was originally written as an anti-crime book and cautionary tale. as a result, it is one of those rare cult books that’s a riveting read and hard to put down. It is a virtual encyclopedia of the techniques in use by hardened criminals as well as a glossary of underworld slang. The […] Read more …
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PREJUDICES: Fourth series (MENCKENS’ PREJUDICES SERIES) – H.L. Mencken
Iconoclast H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. His volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 and 1927, were both a scathing yet humorous attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism and hypocrisy and a resounding defense of the writers and thinkers he thought of […] Read more …
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SIDESHOW: Abnormitäten des 19 Jahrhunderts (German Edition) – Signor Saltarino
Abnormitäten, im Allgemeinen unter Verwendung des trivialen Synonyms “Missgeburten” beschrieben, haben als Schau-Objekte stets eine bedeutende Anziehungskraft auf das sogenannte große Publikum ausgeübt, das in der Regel eine gewisse Befriedigung seiner Neugierde in dem gedankenlosen Anschauen derselben fand. Im Jahr 1900 stellte H.W. Otto (Pseudonym Signor Saltarino) dieses Buch zu Bildungs- und Unterhaltungszwecken zusammen. Es […] Read more …
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VIGILANTE DAYS AND WAYS: The Pioneers of the Rockies – Nathaniel Pitt Langford
This are two books, edited together: THE MAKERS AND MAKING OF MONTANA AND IDAHO and THE PIONEERS OF THE ROCKIES. So this is your lucky day: two books for the price of one! The truth of the adage that “Crime carries with it its own punishment” has never received a more powerful vindication than at […] Read more …
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HUMAN LEOPARD SOCIETY Ritual Murder and Cannibalism in Colonial Africa – K.J. Beatty
“The bush seemed to me pervaded with something supernatural, a spirit which was striving to bridge the animal and the human …”~ From the preface ~ Were the Human Leopard Society members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an appetite for human flesh, or was it some far out religious rite? These and numerous other […] Read more …
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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS and the enforcement of medieval groupthink (Illustrated) – M. Spitse
In this series of Medieval Ultra-Violence engravings Jan Luyken depicts the public tortures and executions of martyrs, heathens, witches, anabaptists and other opinionated folks who didn’t toe the partyline and refused to comply to the groupthink of those days. The intro and accompanying essays are by J-K Huysmans, James Anson Farrer, John Asheton, Thomas Bedworth, […] Read more …
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GUILTY! The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals – J.P. Evans
This is Europe’s largely forgotten history of putting animal “criminals” on trial and either executing and torturing them or, for plagues of insects, ordering them to leave town not only by a certain day, but by an exact time. Such irrational barbarism is hard to fathom today, but as early as 824 all the way […] Read more …
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JOKER The History of Court Fools – John Doran
A Jester, Court jester, Trickster or Fool was historically a comedian and entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch. He was employed to bring some lightness to the courts of Medieval Europe, and to take the “edge” of de burden of reigning […] Read more …