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Atomic Books

Literary Finds For Mutated Minds.

About Me

I'm Baltimore's legendary alternative, independent bookstore.
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My Interests

Zines, Comix, Underground Literature, self-published work. Sideshows. Human oddities. Serial killers. Art toys. Designer vinyl.

I'd like to meet:

People who can read. Zinesters. Alt Comix artists. People in bands. Other stores like me. Sword swallowers/fire eaters/glass walkers/human blockheads/any sort of sideshow performer.

Music:

Punk, Indie Rock, Alt.Country, Garage, Outsider, Classic Country, Hillbilly, Old Timey. Anything on our house label - ATOMIC TWANG. Monitor Records, Reptilian Records, Morphius Records, Hit-Dat Records, Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, Touch & Go, Kill Rock Stars, K Records, Secretly Canadian, Saddle Creek, Wham City.

Movies:

Microcinema. Independent Films. B-Movies. Horror. Cult Classics. Exploitation. Porn. Hong Kong Action. Midnight Movies. John Waters, Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ed Wood, Takashi Miike, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson, George & Mike Kuchar, Skizz Cyzyk, Josh Slates, Larry Cohen, Jeff Krulik, Hal Hartley, Jack Hill.

Television:

Atomic TV. TV Carnage. Lost & Found Video Night. Stink-O-Rama. Ghoul A-Go-Go. Adult Swim. Anthony Bourdain.

Books:

LULU EIGHTBALL, I KEEE YOU!!, THE FUTURE GENERATION, FART PARTY, Shocked & Amazed, Feral House, McSweeney's, Soft Skull Press, Fantagraphics Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Top Shelf, AK Press, Loompanics, Creation Books.

Heroes:

No thanks.

My Blog

How The Magic Happens

Books and things come from the far reaches of the Earth, or from across the street to gather here at Atomic Books. How does that happen? That's another chart...1. You place your order online, on the p...
Posted by Atomic Books on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:52:00 PST