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Hank K

About Me

Stories I wrote: Armless The Green Glade The Twilight Fuck of Three

My Interests

Music:


Movies:

Freaks/Tod Browning, The Unknown/Browning, Taxi Driver/Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas/Scorsese, Careful/Guy Maddin, Tales from the Gimli Hospital/Maddin, Eraserhead/David Lynch, Blue Velvet/Lynch, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein/Charles T. Barton, It’s a Gift/Norman McLeod, The Black Cat/Edgar G. Ulmer, Detour/Ulmer, Faust/F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu/Murnau, Pandora’s Box/G.W. Pabst, Witchcraft Through the Ages/Benjamin Christensen, The Toll of the Sea/Chester M. Franklin, Un Chien Andalu/Dali & Bunuel, Blood of a Poet/Jean Cocteau, Sewing Circle/Richard Kern, The Mongreloid/George Kuchar, Towers Open Fire/Antony Balch, Pink Flamingos/John Waters, Desperate Living/Waters, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes/Stan Brakhage, Tetsuo/Shinya Tsukamoto, Begotten/E. Elias Merhige, Even Dwarfs Started Small/Werner Herzog, Aguirre, The Wrath of God/Herzog, Apocalypse Now/Francis Ford Coppola, Street of Crocodiles/Bros. Quay, Audition/Takashi Miike, Visitor-Q/Miike, Ichi The Killer/Miike, Pulp Fiction/Quentin Tarantino, Oldboy/Park Chanwook, Last House on the Left/Wes Craven, Last House on Dead End Street/Roger Watkins, Deranged/Alan Ormsby, The Brood/David Cronenberg, Videodrome/Cronenberg, Suspiria/Dario Argento, Spider Baby/Jack Hill, Switchblade Sisters/Hill, Coffy/Hill, The Killing/Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange/Kubrick, Nightmare Alley/Edmund Goulding, M/Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street/Lang, Double Indemnity/Billy Wilder, Dawn of the Dead/George Romero, This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse/Jose Mojica Marins, The Gruesome Twosome/Herschell Gordon Lewis, Blood Feast/Lewis, Bad Girls Go To Hell/Doris Wishman, Nude on the Moon/Wishman, Let Me Die a Woman/Wishman, Glen or Glenda/Edward D. Wood Jr., Plan Nine from Outer Space/Wood, Gummo/Harmony Korine, The World’s Greatest Sinner/Timothy Carey, Head/Bob Rafelson, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Tobe Hooper, The Thrill Killers/Ray Dennis Steckler, Crumb/Terry Zwigoff, Hated/Todd Phillips, Mesa of Lost Women/Herbert Tevos, Basket Case/Frank Henenlotter, The Monster and the Stripper/Ron Ormond, The Sadist/James Landis, Adam & Six Eves/John Wallis, King of the Zombies/Jean Yarborough, Mantis in Lace/William Rotsler, The Hitch-Hiker/Ida Lupino, East of Borneo/George Melford, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!/Russ Meyer, The Streetfighter/Shigehiro Ozawa, Dolemite/D’urville Martin, Psycho/Alfred Hitchcock, Lone Wolf and Cub/Misumi Kenji, Black Ceasar/Larry Cohen, God Told me to/Cohen, Master of the Flying Guillotine/Jimmy Wang Yu, Habit Patterns/McGraw Hill, Shy Guy/Coronet Instructional Films, Dinner Party/Simmel-Meservey...

Books:

Fiction: The Brothers Grimm, The Decameron/Giovanni Boccaccio, The Metamorphosis/Franz Kafka, Hunger/Knut Hamsun, The Stranger/Albert Camus, Notes from Underground/Fyodor Dostoevsky, Story of the Eye/Georges Bataille, Against Nature/J.K. Huysmans, La-Bas/Huysmans, Maldoror/Comte de Lautreamont, Nausea/Jean-Paul Sartre, Impressions of Africa/Raymond Roussel, The Magician/W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge/Maugham, Heart of Darkness/Joseph Conrad, Journey to the End of the Night/Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Steppenwolf/Hermann Hesse, Ficciones/Jorge Luis Borges, One Hundred Years of Solitude/Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Unvanquished/William Faulkner, Wise Blood/Flannery O’Connor, You Can’t Win/Jack Black, The Sheltering Sky/Paul Bowles, Naked Lunch/William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands/Burroughs, On the Road/Jack Kerouac, Last Exit to Brooklyn/Hubert Selby Jr., Post Office/Charles Bukowski, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories/Bukowski, Lolita/Vladimir Nabokov, V./Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow/Pynchon, Forty Stories/Donald Barthelme, White Noise/Don DeLillo, Underworld/DeLillo, The New York Trilogy/Paul Auster, Concrete Island/J.G. Ballard, Crash/Ballard, Pricksongs & Descants/Robert Coover, Will You Please be Quiet, Please?/Raymond Carver, Trout Fishing in America/Richard Brautigan, The Abortion/Brautigan, The Catcher in the Rye/J.D. Salinger, The Tin Drum/Gunter Grass, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest/Ken Kesey, Deathbird Stories/Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine/Ellison, The Shining/Stephen King, The Body Snatchers/Jack Finney, Donovan’s Brain/Curt Siodmak, Books of Blood/Clive Barker, Suttree/Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian/McCarthy, Geek Love/Katherine Dunn, Portnoy’s Complaint/Philip Roth, Dracula/Bram Stoker, Koko/Peter Straub, Mildred Pierce/James M. Cain, The Lost Weekend/Charles Jackson, Red Dragon/Thomas Harris, 1984/George Orwell, The High Priest of California/Charles Willeford, Nightmare Alley/William Lindsay Gresham, The Maltese Falcon/Dashiell Hammett, The Great God Pan/Arthur Machen, The Complete Crumb Comics/R. Crumb, Panorama of Hell/Hideshi Hino, Ed the Happy Clown/Chester Brown, The Complete E.C. Segar Popeye/Segar, Black Hole/Charles Burns, Diary of a Drug Fiend/Aleister Crowley, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Hunter S. Thompson, Nadja/Andre Breton, etc...Non-Fiction: The Secret Museum of Mankind/Unknown, Modern Surgery/Dr. John Chambers DaCosta, The Playground Of Europe/Leslie Stephen, The Lame, The Halt, and the Blind/Howard W. Haggard, The Discovery of the Art of the Insane/John M. MacGregor, Henry Darger; In the Realms of the Unreal/Macgregor, Art Brut/Lucienne Peiry, Blackstock’s Collections/Gregory L. Blackstock, Dada; Art and Anti-art/Hans Richter, Dada Almanac/Richard Huelsenbeck, ed., Manifestoes of Surrealism/Andre Breton, The Persistence of Memory, a Biography of Dali/Meredith Etherington-Smith, Surrealist Painters and Poets/Mary Ann Caws, ed., Writings of the Vienna Actionists/Malcolm Green, ed., Art of the Third Reich/Peter Adam, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp/Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray Photographs, Une Semaine De Bonte/Max Ernst, The Tears of Eros/Georges Bataille, Bizarre/John Willie, Naked City/Weegee, The Bone House/Joel-Peter Witkin, Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection/Akimitsu Naruyama, ed., Evidence/Luc Sante, Low Life/Sante, Patpong Bangkok’s Twilight Zone/Nick Nostitz, Self, Life, Death/Nobuyoshi Araki, Muerte! Death in Mexican Popular Culture/Harvey Bennett Stafford, ed., How the Other Half Lives/Jacob Riis, Answer Me!/Jim & Debbie Goad, Apocalypse Culture I&II/Adam Parfrey ed., The Doors of Perception/Aldous Huxley, Acid Dreams/ Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain, True Hallucinations/Terence McKenna, Breaking Open the Head/Daniel Pinchbeck, The Dark Side of Christian History/Helen Ellerbe, Strange Creations/Donna Kossy, Kooks/Kossy, Satanic Panic/Jeffrey S. Victor, Turn Off Your Mind/Gary Lachman, Very Special People/Frederick Drimmer, Mutants – On Genetic Variety and the Human Body/Armand Marie Leroi, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities/Jan Bondeson, The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton/Dean Jensen, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower/Daniel P. Mannix, Freaks: We Who Are Not as Others/Mannix, Human Oddities/Martin Monestier, Eccentric & Bizarre Behaviors/Louis R. Franzini & John M. Grossberg, The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber/Mel Gordon, Voluptuous Panic/Gordon, Over-Exposed/Sylvere Lotringer, Tales of Times Square/Josh Alan Friedman, War Against the Weak/Edwin Black, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat/Oliver Sacks, The History of Shock Treatment/Leonard Roy Frank, ed., The Family/Ed Sanders, Practical Homicide Investigation/Vernon J. Geberth, Deviant/Harold Schechter, Depraved/Schechter, Blinded by the Right/David Brock, What’s the Matter with Kansas?/Thomas Frank, The Outsider/Colin Wilson, Sun and Steel/Yukio Mishima, Literary Outlaw/Ted Morgan, Education of a Felon/Edward Bunker, ReSearch#10 Incredibly Strange Films, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film/Michael Weldon, Killing for Culture/David Kerekes & David Slater, Step Right Up!/William Castle, Nightmare of Ecstasy/Rudolph Grey, Hollywood Babylon I&II/Kenneth Anger, Shock Value/John Waters, A Youth in Babylon/David F. Friedman, The Age of Gold – Surrealist Cinema/Robert Short, Mental Hygiene/Ken Smith, From the Atelier Tovar/Guy Maddin...

My Blog

The Tape

  On October 24, 1993, while walking home from school, I found an old audio cassette by the roadside. It was a TDK 60 minute tape. The label on side two had been peeled off. About eight inches o...
Posted by Hank K on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:36:00 PST

Candy Floss Gas

Ypres 1915 Alfred opened his eyes just before dawn. It was still raining but the downpour had diminished to a drizzle. The thunder had ceased and Alfred was grateful for that. The sky-filled crash ...
Posted by Hank K on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:35:00 PST

The Amok Blind Men of Muharrin

This whole thing may have been a dream. My maternal grandfather died of emphysema when I was ten years old. He and my grandmother used to baby-sit me whenever my parents wanted to get away for the w...
Posted by Hank K on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:33:00 PST

Black Eye Glue

Hobbies N' Stuff                             by Beatrice Brown Part XXII:...
Posted by Hank K on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:02:00 PST

Why Did it Always Smell Like Mustard in the Hallway?

This has nothing to do with anything. I just felt like doing something different. Why Did It Always Smell Like Mustard in the Hallway? Floyd Suicide first noticed the smell of mustard in the hall...
Posted by Hank K on Sat, 24 May 2008 06:07:00 PST

Razor Wire Kiss....Chapter 30

CHAPTER THIRTY   Missy and Dawn were locked in their dorm-room; a cold, concrete bunker hidden deep underground. The room was small, furnished with two torn, uncomfortable canvas cots, two fo...
Posted by Hank K on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:00 PST

Razor Wire Kiss....Chapter 29

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE  "We're here. Stop," said Dora. Dr. Diane pulled the GTO over, killed the engine. They sat by the side of the road for several minutes, waiting for Dora to make an annou...
Posted by Hank K on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:06:00 PST

Razor Wire Kiss....Chapter 28

 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT   Dawn and Missy sat down to breakfast  a cold, rancid slumgullion of old blood, bile and bits of rotten tissue that floated atop the grisly stew like flesh croutons...
Posted by Hank K on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:08:00 PST

Razor Wire Kiss....Chapter 27

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN   "My fingers are growing back." "Oh yeah?" said Dr. Diane, pulling away from the Sunoco filling station. "Yeah, look. See?" Willie extended his hands. Tiny, wrinkled bab...
Posted by Hank K on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:14:00 PST

Razor Wire Kiss....Chapter 26

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX   "I'm not wearing this stupid shit," said Dawn from behind the green silk screen. "Yeah," Missy agreed, also behind the screen. "I'm not real comfortable in this outfit eit...
Posted by Hank K on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:24:00 PST