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Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully / Hawkwind: Days of the Underground / Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons / Muse Oadalisque Handmaiden: A Girl's Life In The Incredible String Band 'One of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird journals of the past hundred-odd years' - The Independent on Sunday

'Strange Attractor Journal is concerned less with the unexplained than with the unexpected.

Hello Strangers! We're having an enormous Spring Sale on our web site, with deep discounts across a number of titles. Th...
01/04/2025

Hello Strangers!

We're having an enormous Spring Sale on our web site, with deep discounts across a number of titles. These offers are only available direct from us, while stocks last, until the end of April 2025.

Click the link below to discover what's reduced:

https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/dept/~spring-sale/

Behold....THE PAPER MONOLITH!!!Every Christmas, as we draw things to a close at the studio, we think to ourselves how gr...
16/12/2024

Behold....

THE PAPER MONOLITH!!!

Every Christmas, as we draw things to a close at the studio, we think to ourselves how great it would be to photograph the stack of books we’ve produced throughout the year… and yet it’s something we rarely get around to doing.

So here, for Christmas 2024, is our output for the year.
We’re exhausted!

In no particular order, we’ve been incredibly proud to put the following books out into the world…


—Appendix N: The Weird Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons edited by Peter Bebergal

—Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Anthology edited by Adrian Whittaker

—Two-Headed Doctor: listening For Ghosts In Dr. John’s Gris-Gris

—Cabarets Of Death: Dance, Death and Dining In Early Twentieth Century Paris by Mel Gordon and edited by Joanna Ebenstein

—Sideways Through Time: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s by Joe Banks

—Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972 edited by Paul Purgas

—Paradise: The Psychoanalysis of Trash by Ken Hollings

—The Trash Concordance by Ken Hollins

—Music From Elsewhere by Douglas Skinner

—Moon’s Milk: Images by Jhonn Balance edited by Andrew Lahman

—Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck Of Austin Osman Spare and the Austin Osman Spare Tarot edited by Jonathan Allen


We’d like to thank all of our authors, editors and contributors, and the incredible coterie of designers we’ve come to work with – Tihana Šare, Maia Gaffney-Hyde, Alina Zavarzina, Alex Conway – as well as our global distribution partners, MIT Press, and online sales partners at State51.

All the very best, and wishing you a wonderful holiday,

Jamie & Mark

In 2002 Coil released Moon’s Milk, a double CD collection of four EPs comprising improvised performances recorded over s...
09/12/2024

In 2002 Coil released Moon’s Milk, a double CD collection of four EPs comprising improvised performances recorded over successive equinoxes and solstices (recently reissued by our friends at Dais records).

For friends and collectors, Jhonn Balance painted 300 CD-R sleeves in an extended moment of what his friend Gavin Semple describes as “psychic disjuncture and epiphany” to form “the largest piece in the substantial body of drawing and painting he created over the years”.

Before his untimely death in 2004, Balance and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson had considered compiling these 300 unique artworks into a single print volume, a project that Sleazy, alongside his friend Andrew Lahman, revisited in 2010, before he himself passed away.

We are thrilled and honoured to have worked with Andrew, and a host of Coil’s fans and friends, to bring this project to fruition. The result is a deluxe 224 page full colour hardback book, featuring over 200 paintings, Polaroid photographs and drawings culled from these intensive sessions, overflowing with all the beauty, horror and humour that characterise Coil’s output.

With a foreword by Andrew Lahman, and an afterword by Gavin Semple, the Moon’s Milk project is finally complete.

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/moons-milk/

Join us on Friday 6 December  as we celebrate the publication of Paradise, the final volume in Ken Hollings’ epic Trash ...
26/11/2024

Join us on Friday 6 December as we celebrate the publication of Paradise, the final volume in Ken Hollings’ epic Trash Trilogy.

The event will also celebrate 20 years since SAP’s first book event at The Horse Hospital.

Doors open at 7pm. At 8.30pm Ken will read alongside Robin The Fog on reel-to-reel tapes in an improvised performance by The Howling.

We'll have all of Ken's books on sale and Ken will be poised and ready to sign them.

FREE ENTRY

December 6th
Doors 7pm
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
London

Looking forward to seeing you,

Jamie & Mark

Austin Osman Spare's tarot deck, created in 1906 and forgotten for over a century, along with select items from our crow...
26/06/2024

Austin Osman Spare's tarot deck, created in 1906 and forgotten for over a century, along with select items from our crowdfunding campaign, are now available directly from our web site.

Stocks are extremely limited so don't hang around if you'd like your own copy of this historic deck.

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/austin-osman-spare-tarot/

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