Strange Attractor Press have officially announced (PDF) the release of Strange Attractor Journal Three, the latest in the acclaimed independent anthology series, edited by Mark Pilkington and designed by Alison Hutchinson:
Setting out to explore rarely-charted territories in history, ethnography, art and literature, each edition of Strange Attractor Journal is a beautifully crafted cabinet of curiosities, attracting contributions from a ever-growing secret society of novelists, historians, musicians, scientists, occultists, ventriloquists, artists, anthropologists, psychonauts and others who defy categorisation.
Journal Three takes us from the opium dens of Thirties Paris to a transgender spirit possession festival in modern-day Burma. En route, readers will encounter psychoactive fauna, a Victorian time machine, the occult roots of modern art, the horrors of recto-genesis, the literary kingdom of Redonda, the underground empire of Joseph Williamson, twelfth-century Arabic alchemists, Arthur Koestler’s sex poetry, Virgil the Necromancer, Surrealism’s lost poet and whole worlds more.
A wonderfully crafted selection of essays, beautifully presented – collector’s material in my opinion. The SA webshop has sample PDFs and images for you to drool over – Journal Three is only £14 inc p&p by mail order or £13.99 in UK shops.
