Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1950, Christina Lindberg began nude modelling for men's magazines around 1968, first in Swedish publications such as FIB Aktuellt, and then in more international magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. This lead to appearances in a succession of sexploitation and exploitation movies, the best of which date from 1970 to 1974. Her film career trailed off after an experience during the production of a hardcore porn film by Gerard Damiano; Lindberg quit during filmi...

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1950, Christina Lindberg began nude modelling for men's magazines around 1968, first in Swedish publications such as FIB Aktuellt, and then in more international magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. This lead to appearances in a succession of sexploitation and exploitation movies, the best of which date from 1970 to 1974. Her film career trailed off after an experience during the production of a hardcore porn film by Gerard Damiano; Lindberg quit during film...

The shocking true story of one of America’s most gruesome and unforgettable serial killers.In the quiet town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, police uncovered a house of horrors—furniture made from human skin, skulls turned into bowls, and a hidden life of unimaginable depravity. At the center was Ed Gein, a reclusive farmer whose crimes would horrify a nation and shape the darkest corners of true crime history.This gripping account delves into Ge...

A dream road-trip turned national nightmare. A missing-person hashtag that seized the world’s feeds. A forensic hunt for truth that exposed the dark engine of domestic abuse.Vanished – The Shocking Murder of Gabby Petito pulls you inside every mile, message, and misstep that led from #VanLife bliss to an autopsy table in the Tetons. Drawing on police body-cam footage, GPS breadcrumbs, digital forensics and unprecedented social-media crowdsourcing, true-cri...

Jeffrey Dahmer: Anatomy of Atrocity pulls you far beyond the headline horrors and into the machinery that created – and ultimately caged – America’s most infamous cannibal‐killer. True-crime investigator Jack Hunter dissects Dahmer’s life through five relentless lenses that turn a tabloid nightmare into a razor-sharp case study of psychology, law, and society.Monsters aren’t born in darkness; they grow in the blind spots we refuse to see.

Sacred Geography: Conversations with Place considers the meaning and nature of sacred spaces and landscapes. It asks profound questions, weaving together historical insights, philosophical musings, and contemporary studies to explore the sacredness embedded within our environments. In this volume, contributors explore these themes with a phenomenological approach, allowing places to speak for themselves. They ask: What draws life to a particular place? How do places maintain their...

Engaging the Anomalous is a collection of essays written by Jack Hunter between 2010-17. Together, the essays push toward the development of a non-reductive, participatory and experiential anthropology of the paranormal. Over the course of the book, Hunter surveys:• Trends in anthropology's engagement with the paranormal• The anthropology and neuroscience of spirit possession• The history of Spiritualism and the phenomena of physical mediumship• The ov...

AI NO CORRIDA (1976) is Nagisa Oshima's hardcore sex version of the bizarre Sada Abe murder-mutilation-necrophilia case, which stunned Japanese society in 1936. Produced in France to avoid Japan's strict censorship laws, Oshima's film caused outrage upon its release but has since been recognised as a masterpiece of erotic cinema, and one which goes far beyond mere pornography in its investigation into the nature of sexual obsession and death. This special ebook provides a detailed overvie...

FREAKS (1932) is the sensational horror movie that dared to use real-life "human anomalies†in its tale of greed, betrayal and retribution in a travelling carnival. Dwarfs, pinheads, and the limbless are just some of the grotesque figures that provide Tod Browning's seminal work with its unique atmosphere of primal fear and revulsion. This special ebook provides an in-depth history and analysis of this classic cult movie, illustrated by rarely-seen publicity photographs, plus a bonus fea...

LAS HURDES (1932), the third film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel, is now regarded as the first ever “surrealist documentaryâ€. Buñuel’s view of the impoverished and disease-stricken land of the blighted Hurdanos is filled with grotesque and repellent images. This special ebook companion to LAS HURDES features the first-ever English translation of the film’s ironic commentary, accompanied by rare photographic illustrations; plus two revelatory essays on the art of film-making by Buñ...

The latter part of the 1960s saw the advent of a small, short-lived genre of Vietnam War-related cinema – the “peacenik/draft-dodger†movie, in which student anti-war demonstrations and ruses used by America’s youth to avoid conscription were used as plot devices in films ranging from the underground to teen exploitation and arthouse productions. WHITE RIOT looks at a whole range of these films, including works by Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and Kenneth...

Robert De Niro: one of the most versatile and acclaimed actors of recent decades, famous for the uncompromising method approach he brings to roles ranging from the psychotic Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's seminal Taxi Driver, to the nerveless robber of Michael Mann's Heat and the loser in Tarantino's Jackie Brown. Robert De Niro: Movie Top Tens presents a chronological examination of ten of Robert De Niro's most important movies, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by so...