 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.96 Psychotic writing style ... but oh so imaginative!!
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 | Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
Buy used from: $1.58 At first, it's difficult to get into this book ... but the romantic imagery and exquisite language eventually win you over!
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 | Flesh for Frankenstein
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $14.76 Hypnotically sick! ... Evisceration juxtaposed with lyrical music!? Polarizes many viewers!
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 | Casualties of War
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.44 Don't be put off because it stars a beloved sitcom star and was released by a major Hollywood studio ... this is cinema at its most horrifying, heartbreaking and haunting!
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![The Rainbow [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Kd3tVJ91L._SL75_.jpg) | The Rainbow [Region 2]
Buy used from: $24.99 Ken Russell, who directed the outrageous "Tommy," reigns himself in with this lovely melodrama penned by D.H. Lawrence. Known for its scene of lesbians skinny-dipping in the rain ... and a waterfall copulation scene ....
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 | Venison by James Mirarchi
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $4.98 Narrative free verse that is unlike most poetry ... Reads almost like avant garde fiction ... Wild and shocking ... but surprisingly coherent and NOT FLAKEY! Quite good!
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 | East of Eden
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $41.19 T.V. adaptation of Steinbeck's classic comes off as a disturbing version of "Little House on the Prairie" ... Combines sentimentality with scenes of sociopathic horror. The film (or even John Steinbeck) never decide if the erratic Cathy Ames, played by a brilliant Jane Seymour, is malevolent in a borderline personality way or just MYTHICALLY evil - a snake in human form.
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 | Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $3.75 Magical and visceral in a stream-of-consciousness way! A lovely balance of horror and fantasy! My favorite of Clive Barker!
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 | Breakfast At Tiffany's - Paramount Centennial Collection (Mastered in High Definition)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.66 Yes - it's considered a fluffy Hollywood classic ... but still it has enough of a quirky urban edge (along with its sexual subtext) that it deserves a mention on this list ...
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 | Suddenly, Last Summer
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 Since the filmmakers could not be direct about the story's taboo-breaking themes (thanks to those pesky Hollywood censors), 1959's "Suddenly, Last Summer" turned out to be, instead, a subliminal, subversive masterpiece. Homosexuality, cannibalism and maternal prostitution are just some of the hidden treasures you will have to rummage through just below the surface!
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 | The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $6.47 Erotic renditions of classic fairy tales! Some of the most effectively ornate descriptions you'll ever read. Angela Carter is known to overwrite (this is tediously evident in her novels) but when she pens short stories, her style can be gorgeous!
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 | Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.51 Freudian, psychosexual tale about a teenage couple's carnal adventures and their perverse fetish for eyeballs, eggs and bulls' testicles ... Not for the squeamish ... but a fascinating, brisk read!
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 | Dervish by James Mirarchi
Buy new: $10.00 This is the 2nd engaging poetry book from author James Mirarchi ... In some ways, a better work than "Venison", in that the writing is lighter, cleaner and less baroque.
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