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View ArticleJungle Captive
Enter the bizarre world of “Jungle Captive”… a new noir sound experience that will transport you to a strange, palpitating realm where unbridled passions run wild and umbrageous desires dance in a...
View ArticleGive Different . . .
Click to view slideshow. To order, click on a title in the list below. CAPTAIN CAP: HIS ADVENTURES, HIS IDEAS, HIS DRINKS. Alphonse Allais. Translated by Doug Skinner SELECTED PLAYS OF ALPHONSE ALLAIS....
View ArticleZombies R Us
Time to walk (or is it rock?) with the Robot Zombies of Angkor Wat. Wat’s new? Why, this new experimental soundtrack mix from Midnight Grindhouse by the one and only DrG Supreme. Man, this audio is...
View ArticleThe Inner Skinner
Coming this summer….a blessed compendium featuring articles, short stories, verses, columns, literary essays, alphabets, metrical translations, monologues, talks, cartoons, rounds, lipogrammatic smut,...
View ArticleKiss that Gideon goodbye!
Holy cow!—it’s the gospel according to Doug Skinner—featuring articles, short stories, verses, columns, literary essays, alphabets, metrical translations, monologues, talks, cartoons, rounds,...
View ArticleIn the wings, some special things (eighth edition)…
On the 4th of July, Black Scat Books celebrated three years of publishing. In that short span of time we’ve released nearly 100 titles, which may make us seem bigger than we are. We’re still a small,...
View ArticleTheatre of the Absurd—Opening Night!
“Witkiewicz takes up and continues the vein of dream and grotesque fantasy exemplified by the late Strindberg or by Wedekind; his ideas are closely paralleled by those of the surrealists and Antonin...
View ArticleThree Plays by D. Harlan Wilson
Black Scat Books is proud to add D. Harlan Wilson to its list of luminaries. This is the renegade author’s first collection of plays, and it’s guaranteed to provoke standing ovations — or perhaps we...
View ArticleThe play’s the thing….
We proudly raise the curtain on this new collection by Eckhard Gerdes—three plays in a variety of styles which challenge preconceptions and subvert complacency. Who knew that novelist Eckhard Gerdes...
View ArticleStanding Room Only
THREE PLAYS BY ECKHARD GERDES THREE PLAYS BY D. HARLAN WILSON VAHAZAR
View ArticleGO GODEAU!
Balzac’s WAITING FOR GODEAU was just named #1 on Amazon’s New Releases in French Dramas & Plays. Congratulations to translator Mark Axelrod. Go Godeau! CLICK HERE to order a copy
View ArticleIt’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…insane!
These plays, plays by Axelrod, Mark, the other Axelrod, not the one who worked for Obama, Obamaless, the other Axelrod, his plays, are. And are the plays of Axelrod, no t the one who worked for Obama,...
View ArticleSucker Punch Gala in NYC
(photo by Karina Tarnawsky) If you were in NYC on June 15th and missed the BLACK SCAT SUCKER PUNCH bout between high lit heavyweight champs Yuriy Tarnawsky (seated)) and Alain Arias-Mission —shame on...
View ArticleBRING ME THE HEAD OF FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN!
Jason E. Rolfe‘s mesmerizing new chapbook, THE PUPPET-PLAY OF DOCTOR GALL, is a shadowy existential drama — an absurdist murder-mystery set in Vienna in 1820, with a cast of curious characters: Franz...
View ArticleLOOK OUT MAMA, IT’S DEBAUCH-O-RAMA!
“A harsh, hilarious, scurrilous, and scatological satire.” —Ed Simon, JSTOR Daily Poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, was considered one of the greatest English satirists — a nimble wit and...
View ArticleTHE PLAY’S THE THING
Harold Jaffe‘s new collection, Strange Fruit & Other Plays, challenges the reader to confront an America awash in racism, hatred, and violence. With cunning precision, Jaffe employs 20th century...
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