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Wednesday October 8, 2008

The Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania

Tourist\'s Guide to Transylvania Cover

In celebration of the best dirn month of the year I will be posting some of my favorite pages from one of my favorite books from my youth. At the end of the month, it’s my plan to post the entire volume of A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania in PDF form.

A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania is an odd collection of licensed fantasy and horror illustrations, magical and occult references, and awkward humor. Released by Octopus Books in 1981, my seven year old self stumbled across this at the local K-Mart while out shopping for, as I remember, school supplies for my first year at school. What an odd world 1981 must have been that a first grader in an affluent suburb in the midwest could stumble across such a peculiar collection of horror and occult doctrine.

Stay tuned for the entire collection of A Tourist’s Guide to Transylvania, I promise it is a wonderful ride.

Consciousness, The Weird, drugs — Tags: , , , — Viking Brian @ 11:24 pm


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  1. My aunt Stella got me this book for my birthday in 81 or 82. She was always getting me cool horror-related stuff — which I was way into as a tyke. My birthday lands around thanksgiving so I got the thing @ a family thanksgiving party. I couldn’t believe how over the fucking top the book was. It blew my 8 or 9 year old mind. We got home and the next morning I couldn’t find the book. My dad had disposed of the damn thing! (Other casualties over the years: a vinyl copy of Yellow Submarine, No One Here Gets Out Alive, and Mudhoney’s Self-Titled SubPop LP). A great guy, my pop, who did his futile best to keep the cultural tidal wave of sex, drugs and satan from invading his home.

    Anyway, I always mourned the loss of this book. A few years ago it dawned on me that I might be able to score a copy on eBay. It was easy as pie!

    Now I have the book, and it’s every bit as far out and fucked up as I remember it. I don’t blame my father for chucking it in the trash…. This book is insane! Amazing, wonderful stuff! God bless us, every one!

    Comment by joebot888 — Monday October 13, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

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