Product Description: “I heard the warning: /‘Here is the tigers’ kingdom”—Yosano Tekkan For over one thousand years, the image of the tiger spread from Buddhist temple carvings to other artistic forms across China and Korea. The tiger became a favorite subject for Japanese painters at the beginning of the seventeenth century...read more

Product Description: The first true flowering of Satanism in erotic art came with the Belgian artist Felicien Rops (1833-1898). Rops, who had met Charles Baudelaire in Paris in 1864 and subsequently become a devoted disciple, thereafter commingled elements of death, prostitution and the Satanic in his work, particularly in his 5-picture series Les Sataniques of 1882...read more

Product Description: THE BLOOD DELIRIUM is a definitive collection of 19th century European literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric - is featured or evoked. Twentythree seminal works by classic European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to protoSurrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror...read more

Product Description: The spectre of Gilles de Rais, satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. A fallen general, once the champion of Jeanne d'Arc, de Rais' riches and experimentations led him to the very gates of Hell. The juxtaposition of de Rais' obscene crimes and insidious aristocratic glamour lodges him in our minds as some kind of medieaval Hannibal Lecter, and he is indeed believed to be the inspiration behind Perrault's classic fairytale of the serial wife-killer Bluebeard...read more

Product Description: The Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirational figures identified by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos. De Sade’s importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy, and writings...read more

Product Description: Photography is most often thought of as a way to document reality—to capture true-life experiences as they occur. But for the artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, who placed the very question of reality and its perception at the center of their works, the camera’s lens functioned as a creative extension of the imagination—a third eye attuned to unconscious meaning—and the photograph was an index of signs that could be modified, simultaneously recording the everyday and exposing new meanings beneath its surface...read more

Product Description: Satanica Sexualis charts the forbidden area where sex, black magic and Satan meet in an unholy and lascivious fusion. This lavishly-illustrated and comprehensive encyclopedia of sex and the Devil covers: * the antichrist "black mass "demonology * the devil’s mark "drugs "hell "hysteria "incubus/succubus "nuns "pornography "possession "satanic sex crime "scatology "sex magic "witches? sabbat and much more...read more

Product Description: A visual tribute to the many girls who bared all in the erotic Japanese adult films known as 'pink movies.' Pink movies flourished in 1970's Japan, contradicting the seemingly conservative culture, and pushing the artistic boundaries of porn...read more