On the Run With Bonnie & Clyde

by John Gilmore

  — Highway Hitchhike-Killer Billy Cook unleashing his cold-blooded hate for the human race

  “John Gilmore is the best nonfiction writer of our time, the type of writer that grabs by the throat and by the heart.” - Maximum Rock’n’Roll

  ISBN 1-878923-16-1 (trade paper)

  $19.95, 344 pp., illustrated

  LAID BARE

  A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip

  Acclaimed as a powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-LaBianca), author John Gilmore draws upon his own resevoir of personal experiences as he turns his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it exacts from those who would pursue. With caustic clarity and 20-20 hindsight, John Gilmore recounts his relationships with the likes of James Dean, Janis Joplin, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg, Lenny Bruce and many other denizens of the twentieth century’s dubious pantheon both on the way up and at the peaks of their notoriety.

  “Beautifully written in a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski... This is an astonishing book.” - Sight and Sound

  “John Gilmore deals with mythically familiar subjects, but not to turn them inside out. Instead he boils off the myth and shows you how things really were, and what things felt like to the people living what later became a myth. You will encounter no received ideas, no cliches, no deference to popular myths and opinions, and best of all, no lies. He’s an amazing writer, and Laid Bare is his most astonishing book.” - Gary Indiana

  ISBN: 1-878923-08-0 (trade paper)

  $16.95, 250 pp., illustrated

  MANSON

  The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family

  Random murder and savage overkill, mind control and trips, Satanism and witchcraft, cursed glamour, Haight Ashbury, rock’n’roll, biker gangs, sexual rebellion & dune buggies tearing across Death Valley in search of the “hole in the earth...”

  The persona of Charles Manson and his bizarre sway over the Family remain riveting a quarter of a century down the line. At the time of the killings, Charles Manson was instantly demonized by the media. Today he has become an icon of rebellion — “the spirit of annihilation.” Manson is a gripping and chilling acccount of one of the most fascinating crime sagas of our time, now available in a revised and updated edition containing 36 pages of previously unpublished photos. New vectors into the kaleidoscopic tale which spins inexorably out of the slayings emerge in this updated edition with new material on killer Bobby Beausoleil and his occult alliance with experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger.

  “Fascinating!” - Library Journal

  “A well-researched ethnography of the Manson Family more than an investigation of their crimes.” - Chicago Reader

  “A psychogeographical history of Manson and his family... Charlie considered him [Gilmore] a suitable medium for his messianic message.” - Dazed and Confused

  ISBN: 1-878923-13-7 (trade paper)

  $15.95, 208 pp., illustrated

  SEVERED

  The True Story of the Black Dahlia

  The Black Dahlia murder hit post-war Los Angeles like a bombshell... An impenetrable mystery—the haunting crown jewel of LAPD’s “unsolved murders.” Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué, was known as the Black Dahlia—now a magnetic icon in American pop culture, an almost mythical symbol of Hollywood noir. In this expanded edition John Gilmore plumbs the dark core of this terrifying story that, he argues, can never be truly solved. Here’s the real Elizabeth Short—the enigmatic Black Dahlia.

  “The most satisfying and disturbing conclusion to the Black Dahlia case. After reading Severed, I feel as if I truly know Elizabeth Short and her killer.” - David Lynch

  “The best book on the Black Dahlia — in fact, the only reliable book.” - Colin Wilson

  “This project stands as the only authentic true-crime book written on America’s most bizarre and haunting murder case.” - Charles Higham

  ISBN: 1-878923-17-X (trade paper)

  $17.95, 238 pp., illustrated