Discomania

Written in 1980 by 16-year-old Jennifer Gibbons alongside her twin sister June-Alison, Discomania is a transgressive novel depicting dancers at a local discotheque driven to acts of violent frenzy involving strangulation, biting, and mutilation. Originally rejected by a vanity press for being too violent, sexual, and futuristic, the manuscript was long believed lost until June-Alison preserved it. Published by Strange Attractor Press with an afterword by David Tibet and Ania Goszczyńska, this 208-page work represents a unique artifact of outsider literature and subcultural expression. Jennifer Gibbons (1963–1993), known as one of “The Silent Twins,” co-created this furious, strange narrative from her shared bedroom before her death following ten years of incarceration at Broadmoor Hospital, making Discomania a haunting document of underground creativity emerging from institutional confinement.

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