
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Books
Books at Catastrophe Ballet follows the Gothic, Decadent, existentialist and underground literary canon, alongside dark science fiction — from Poe and Baudelaire to Burroughs and Ballard. Coverage tracks new releases, reviews and essays from independent presses and literary journals working the same shadowed territory.


Light From The North

Ithell Colquhoun

The Stammering Librarian

Shore Zone

A Walking Flame

Artist As Astronaut

Cosmic Caesious, Cosmic Zinnober, Cosmic Celadon, Cosmic Virescent

Discomania

Twice Magazine Issue 91: Dark Culture Fanzine Returns with Moonspell, The Cure, and Underground Features

Lumières noires: Third Issue of an Underground Music Fanzine

High on Dynamite: the rapid rise & fall of The White Panthers (UK)

Dressed in a Leotard: How Suede Wrote – and Abandoned – a Ballet

Being Right About… Mary Shelley: A Podcast to Listen to Online

Punk UK: A Collector’s Introduction to the Movement

Buzzcocks 1976–1981: Une Brève Éternité by Nicolas Sauvage

Pop80: A Collector’s Guide to Synthesizers, MTV, and the Synthetic Dream

Dark Indeed, Sorrel

Heartworm Press Issues Straight Ahead Tribute Fanzine

Sex Is No Emergency

Moon’s Milk

The Battleground of Art

International Freak

The Great Driving Right Show

Delinquent Elementals

Two Headed Doctor

Cabarets of Death

Adrien Party on Dracula: Tracing Stoker’s Legend Through Romanian History

The Flyer Art of Raymond Pettibon

Rosa Anschütz: Sabbatical Book Edition

Siouxsie – Dear Prudence

The Cure: A Forest – Genesis of a Darkwave Icon

We’re Nobody’s Children: David Bowie and Existentialism

Journal d’une sortie d’emprise

Quand la liberté se transforme en crime : Dominique Dudan et la tentation de l’acte gratuit

Machines To Listen For Us: How the Microphone Changed the Nature of Nosiness

The Next Fix

Labour, Nature, Value

Forget Camus

Dans « Et puis la pluie », Judith Vanistendael se tient au chevet des migrants belges de 2071

“Small Town Sins”, de Ken Jaworowski : un habile premier roman noir dans l’Amérique en crise

Les mortes aussi soulèvent le monde : Douce Dibondo fait danser le deuil

Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits (Omnibus Remastered)

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

Twist: An American Girl

Scene Within a Scene: Scottish Independent Music 1992-2001

Soho Days, Camden Nights: The Chronicles of a Failed Indie Rockstar

Looking Backwards Towards the Future: The Story of Ultravox

The World Was A Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000-2010
