Books by Jasun Horsley

All these titles are available as audio books: Big Mother & Vice of Kings: €20; Kubrickon: €18; 16 Maps of Hell & Prisoner of Infinity (inc. extras) €22; Paper Tiger: €8. Half price on all items for 1-yr paid subscribers. Msg or email me for how to pay.

Reviews

“a mind grappling to the very edge of itself and to the edge of collective human experience simultaneously.” ~Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City

Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil

“This book is indeed a bold journey through the dark aspects of existence; having read it, existence seems even darker and more mysterious than before. But I can see far more details in the shadows, and I came away with a deeper understanding of myself and my relationships, even if some of our demons will never be adequately pinned down. If you like thinking deep thoughts, going down rabbit holes, and wondering where it's all going, this would be an outstanding addition to your weird library. If one considers the dark aspects of existence to be weeds, Jasun Horsley is going for their roots, which is messy but wiser than more superficial treatments. He thinks things through more deeply than just about anyone I've ever read, at least among living writers.” (Amazon review)

16 Maps of Hell*: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture (*with a Rough Draft of the Exit)

“A multipronged attack on consensus reality. 16 Maps of Hell is an outstanding piece of self-exploration through social analysis, a class act. . . . I reckon there’s something holy/whole to finding like-minded souls (open to interpretation and qualification) irrespective of status, alive or dead. If I perceived the world as I do and had no one else (I do have a handful of friends and dead authors) with whom at least to share my wonder and questioning thereof, I might very well have committed myself to an institution. Oh, the joy of knowing one isn’t entirely alone in standing out from the crowd, even if to show a simple nod to an inquiry well done or a choice of subject researched.” ~ Cedomir

The Vice of Kings: How Fabianism, Occultism and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse

“The Vice of Kings is a brave journey into a family’s heart of darkness by an intrepid prose artist. It is not just the painful and bizarre family affairs he uncovers, but the sexual crimes that the British aristocracy normalized as their peculiar privilege going back generations. It also happens to be meticulously researched and beautifully written.” ~ James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and the World Made By Hand novels

Prisoner of Infinity: UFOs, Social Engineering, and the Psychology of Fragmentation

“Easily the most important study extant of social/mythological engineering/UFOs/Strieber’s continuum. No stranger to trauma, driven by relentless–yet empathetic– intelligence, Horsley strips out the massive, annoying nonsense that’s tainted these subjects since the “heady” days of Adamski, Bowert’s Operation Mind Control, the late Jim Keith’s more lucid material and Cannon’s The Controllers. An incredible–literally mind-blowing–exploration.” ~ William Grabowski, contrib. ed. Library Journal; author of Black Light: Perspectives On Mysterious Phenomena

Dark Oasis: A Self-Made Messiah Unveiled

“Horsley’s painfully honest tale of devotion and deceit shows how cult logic can draw in pretty much anyone. It can happen to you.” ~Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock and Program or Be Programmed

Seen & Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist

“Like a magnet, or black hole, your book has demonstrated the capacity to draw other texts helplessly into its space. As Borges said of Kafka, the best books create their own lineages and predecessors, out of formerly unrelated texts.” ~Jonathan Lethem (Afterword)

“Seen and Not Seen, like Prisoner of Infinity and The Vice of Kings, can be read as Jasun’s attempt to create a new meaning structure to account for, and replace, the collapse of cinematic fiction into personal reality that led him deeper into his subjective isolation. This is what makes the epistolary element of Seen and Not Seen so essential. Writers have always built their works using journal entries, letters to colleagues, friends and lovers, and the confessional is a well-established writerly mode. Nor is critically reflecting on the virtues and failings of one’s earlier efforts so unusual. But rarely is it done so publicly, and with such unguarded, self-effacing honesty. And more rarely still does the paranoiac mapping of the tangled web of cinematic self-loss and self-discovery become the art itself.” ~ John Cussans, author of Undead Rising (full review)

Matrix Warrior: Being the One

“I get almost sensory overload from [Matrix Warrior] and have to pause and digest. I am sure you have received a ton of enthusiastic endorsement. . . . There is such a wealth within it I will be slow digesting it.” ~Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and The Biology of Transcendence (in private correspondence with author)

“the best self-help book I’ve read in years.” ~Marie D. Jones, author of 2013 – End of Days or A New Beginning: Envisioning The World After the Events of 2012

“contains oodles more than most of the self-help manuals on the market…” ~Adam Roberts, author of Blue Yellow Tibia

Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery

“This hothead fantasist offers the excitement of a wild, paranoid style. . . . It’s always a surprise.” ~Pauline Kael