Category: satire
Classic Porn Reborn
Black Scat Books is delighted to bring this ancient classic back into print in a perfect-bound edition designed for the modern connoisseur. Facetiae is a collection of humorous and indecent tales by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It features such stories as “Of a Fool, Who Thought His Wife Had Two Openings” and “Visio Francisci Philelphi,” the earliest recorded version of Carvel’s ring. This limited edition includes a hand-lettered cover by artist Jana Vukovic.
Over a hundred pages of lascivious mirth!
If you haven’t been collecting our Black Scat Classic Interim Editions, now is a good time to start.
Happy May Day!
What the hell… we like to celebrate early.
And you can too with a heaping side of BOAR.
Neglected Works
“Delightfully engaging feast for the eyes as well as the funny bone. A must for all those who are fans of the surreal, the impertinent and the painful truth about art and politics today. Richly illustrated with dynamic collages and eye watering graphics – each page could quite easily be framed and hung in a gallery.” —Kollage Kid (UK)
“Norman Conquest is neglected, as a majority of difficult-to-niche artists are neglected. It is unjust. Conquest is nonpareil here and everywhere. Conquest is richly prolific.” —Harold Jaffe
$15
Illustrated. Full color. Trade Paperback. 6″ x 9″. 68 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0615703428
Art / Satire
How to Write the Suicide Note
The following is an excerpt from Doktor Bey’s Suicide Guidebook, just published in a Black Scat Classic Interim Edition, part of the Absurdist Texts & Documents series. Limited to 85 copies.
THE SUICIDE NOTE
Here are ten tips to aid you in writing your suicide note, a particular often overlooked.
- Use of the first person is generally preferred.
- For maximum impact and credibility, always write in the past tense. (Example:: I was a failure in business.)
- If you are without family, friends, or even enemies, address the note “To Whom It May Concern.”
- When possible, use a typewriter. Far too many notes are indecipherable.
- Keep a carbon copy in your pocket, in case the original is misplaced.
- Do not concern yourself with the “beginning-middle-end” rule. Just concentrate on the end.
- Keep in mind that these are your last words. They should be commensurate with your social position. They should reverberate in the reader’s mind! Avoid such clichés as “Goodbye cruel world” and “To be or not to be . . .” Strive for the poetic.
- Self-pity, slang, and obscenity are acceptable.
- If artistically inclined, attach a self-portrait.
- Be brief. Nothing is more boring than a long goodbye.
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The Original How-To to End All is Back!
Long before Dr. Kevorkian was turning off the lights and the Hemlock Society was stocking up on helium—before jihadis were blowing themselves to smithereens—there was DOKTOR BEY’S SUICIDE GUIDEBOOK—the inspiration behind the worldwide assisted suicide movement. Indeed, the SUICIDE GUIDEBOOK (originally published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1977) is the world’s first, lavishly illustrated how-to to end all. Written by the notorious Doktor Bey, it has everything you need to know—including tips on composing the suicide note.
Black Scat Books is pleased to make this long out of print classic available to a new generation of the chronically depressed. With the world in chaos, DOKTOR BEY’S SUICIDE GUIDEBOOK is a welcome alternative to waiting around for Armageddon.
It’s a foolproof shortcut to god knows what.
The Idiot Hath Arrived!
No, not that idiot, this idiot…
Esteemed French drama critic (and the butt of derision at the cabaret Le Chat Noir), Francisque Sarcey reviewed the premiere of Alfred Jarry‘s Ubu Roi with this visionary verdict: ”…a filthy fraud which deserves nothing but the silence of contempt.”
Writer and humorist Alphonse Allais transformed Sarcey into an Ubuesque piñata in a series of wicked columns published under Sarcey’s name in the newspaper Le Chat Noir.
Never before in English, this rare collection is introduced and translated from the French by Doug Skinner. Edition limited to 60 printed copies. #00 in our Black Scat Classics sub-series.
“How I Became an Idiot reminds me of Félix Fénéon’s excellent Novels in Three Lines… the unexpected is suddenly present, and there is rudeness, as well as a savagery of attack that we simply can’t imagine anyone doing to any well-known columnist of today and getting away with it.”
—Jeff Bursey, author of Verbatim: A Novel
Prepare yourself for some nasty laughs.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: THIS TITLE IS OUT OF PRINT.
Eat Your BOAR!
Have you had your boar today?
That is—Terry Southern‘s HOT HEART OF BOAR & Other Tastes. It’s a tasteful smorgasbord of unpublished works by the master satirist—author of the novels Candy and The Magic Christian. and the screenwriter behind such classics of black humor as The Loved One and Dr. Strangelove. This new collection is perfect-bound, wrapped in a lovely cover, and seasoned to perfection with appropriately explicit visuals by Norman Conquest. The edition is limited to 125 copies and you can order a copy right here.
Get it while it’s hot!
Dinner is served!
Fresh from the oven comes HOT HEART OF BOAR—piping hot and throbbing—in a limited edition of 125 copies. The collection features rare, unpublished texts, including an excerpt from The Hunters of Karinhall—a bloody brilliant uproduced screenplay (emphasis on “bloody”). There’s also a private letter to William Burroughs; a vomiting priest; “K.Y. Madness,” and more. In addition to the author’s culinary delights, you’ll find illuminating introductory notes by Nile Southern, as well as tastefully explicit illustrations by Norman Conquest.
In short, it’s is a full-boar feast for famished fans of black humor.
Southern Discomfort…
A yummy treat (for those with strong stomachs) is coming soon in our Absurdist Texts & Documents series…a new collection of strange “tastes” from the late master chef Terry Southern:
HOT HEART OF BOAR & Other Tastes
We’ll be serving it fresh—piping hot and throbbing—in a limited edition of only 125 copies. First come, first served.
The book features rare unpublished texts, including an excerpt from The Hunters of Karinhall—a screenplay that, sadly, was never filmed. It’s a bloody masterpiece, and we do mean bloody. There’s also a private letter to William Burroughs; a vomiting priest; “K.Y. Madness,” and more.
In addition to the author’s culinary delights, you’ll find illuminating introductory notes by Nile Southern, as well as tastefully explicit illustrations by Norman Conquest.
In short, it’s a full-boar feast for famished fans of black humor.
Prepare to dig in.
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