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🕷️ Eleanor Morgan’s Gossamer Days gets into the strange history of humans trying to work with spiders. Read more about Gossamer Days via Caught by the River: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/09/elea... Buy here: strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gossamer...

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Join us in November for London Fortean Society: The Haunted Landscape: Magic, Fairies and Old Gods @ Conway Hall. 21st November from 10am - 5pm Book via conwayhall.org.uk / forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... image: Sara Hannant

Did you miss the International Freak book launch last month? The discussion on the life and legacy of countercultural icon Robin Farquhason between M. Syd Rosen and Owen Hatherly is available on the Housman's podcast! You can find this episode and others here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPxR...

Book Launch: Turning Away by Benjamin A. Saltzman w/ Revd Dr Ayla Lepine

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author, Benjamin A…

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Join us this Wednesday at 7pm - MayDay Rooms London for High on Dynamite: Robin Farquharson's Revolutionary London! M. Syd Rosen and Stewart Home discuss Robin Farquharson, subject of a 'mesmerising, fastidiously researched biography' (The Guardian). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/high-on-dy...

Join us on 25th October @ The Horse Hospital The Megalithic Imperative editor Neil Mortimer will be in conversation with artist-curator Patrica Brien. Followed by live music from Urthona. www.thehorsehospital.com/events/concr...

Tonight! Join us for the International Freak book launch... 7pm @ Brick Lane bookshop Oral historian and radio broadcaster Alan Dein will be in conversation with M. Syd Rosen tickets - bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Join us in November @ Conway Hall, 21st Nov from 10am Sara Hannant will describe highlights from her magical journey which resulted in her book, Panic: Visions of the Horned God in the English Country Garden. Available to purchase at the event ✨ www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Join us next Wednesday for the International Freak book launch! 30 Sept, 7pm @ Brick Lane bookshop Oral historian and radio broadcaster Alan Dein will be in conversation with the author M. Syd Rosen bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Postcards for Mia is a joyful collection of hand-drawn and -painted postcards sent by anthropologist Michael Taussig to his granddaughter, Mia. Available in a standard hardback and art edition. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/postcard...

An anthology of strange fiction and hallucinatory tales, The Moons At Your Door collects chilling stories by many innovators of the weird whilst drawing attention to little-known and shamefully underrepresented or forgotten scribes of the macabre. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-moon...

Boogie Down Predictions expands Roy Christopher's interest in time, race, and the politics of music technology by assembling writers, musicians and futurologists who take hip-hop culture as an opportunity to imagine new possibilities of thinking strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/boogie-d...

"Cathy Ward is an incredibly unique artist, unveiling cosmologies and angelic and demonic heirarchies within the confines of London." Dylan Carlson (EARTH) Liberty Realm 💫 The fascinating phantasmal worlds in the work of the artist Cathy Ward. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/liberty-...

Join us on Sunday 25th October at The Horse Hospital 2-5pm! The Megalithic Imperative editor Neil Mortimer will be in conversation with artist-curator Patrica Brien looking back on his journey to the centre of the earth's mysteries and beyond. www.thehorsehospital.com/events/concr...

“Read The Otherwise and shed a tear for one of cinema's great, long-lost screenplays.” Ben Wheatley The first ever publication of Mark E. Smith's screenplay for a horror film, coauthored with Graham Duff. Buy here strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-othe...

"A compelling and wittily written tale where omens lie low in the elegant prose before it gathers monstrous menace and then raises us towards mystery and awe." Ramsey Campbell Buy here strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/neighbor...

The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Reader by Neil Mortimer presents a selection of articles originally published in the magazine, alongside new commentaries from people like Jenny Blain and Paul Devereux. Buy here strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-mega...

The Stammering Librarian. Essays by Timothy D’Arch Smith. Edited by Edwin Pouncey & Sandy Robertson  Among other absorbing topics, Timothy D’Arch Smith lists an A to Z of naughty public-school slang in use between 1950 - 1954.  Purchase here strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-stam...

A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun by Amy Hale is available to purchase now A Walking Flame promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun’s thought that has remained occluded for too long. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/a-walkin...

Bat Girls and Acid Boys was pubished to coincide with the major Leigh Bowery retrospective on show at Tate Modern a year ago! Copies are available now directly from our website 💙 strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/bat-girl... Foreword by Jonny Trunk Design by Louise Mason Image "Business Man"

This weekend! Catch Tom Bolton at Krankenhaus Festival speaking about his recent publication Atomic Albion with Luke Turner. More info and tickets here: krankenhausfestival.com/bands/tom-bo... Buy the beautiful hardback edition of Atomic Albion here: strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/atomic-a...

The Trash Project by Ken Hollings a trilogy of books on trash culture structured around Dante’s Divine Comedy. Listen to an episode of Little Atoms when Ken talks to Neil Denny about The Trash Project shows.acast.com/littleatoms/... Or buy all four now via strangeattractor.greedbag.com

Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London in the summer of 1989... A classic nonfiction study of otherworld journeys, The Good People by Patrick Harpur dramatises with wit the interweaving of revelation and delusion. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-good...

The first 200 copies of The Megalithic Imperative sold via SAP will come with a set of postcards, and a copy of Site Hound #1, a new zine edited by Neil Mortimer. Buy now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-mega...

"A remarkable book… quite simply essential reading." - Fortean Times Welcome To Mars draws upon newspaper accounts, ad campaigns, declassified government archives, & old movies from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/welcome-...

Join us this Saturday 22nd August at 2pm for a walk around Robin Farquharson's Somers Town with M. Syd Rosen, author of International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drop-out-w...

Now in full distribution! The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Anthology by Neil Mortimer 🪨 Collecting a decade of cutting edge writing about archaeology, earth mysteries, folklore, and myth in our ancient landscapes. Purchase now strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-mega...

International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt by M. Syd Rosen Drawing on meticulous archival research and extensive new interviews, International Freak tells Farquharson’s story for the first time. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/internat...

International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt

Born in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of intellectuals who tasked themselves with reimagining society in the wake of World War II—until a phone…

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We still have a few Austin Osman Spare’s Tarot Museum Edition decks available for purchase. No similar bespoke edition of the cards will ever be produced, making this a unique opportunity to own a piece of tarot history. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/aos-taro...

"One of the best, and most surprising, memoirs from that period. I absolutely loved it." - Dylan Jones, GQ Sex Is No Emergency by Dorothy Max Prior. More adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of acclaimed memoir 69 Exhibition Road... strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/sex-is-n...