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Essex House Classics

The Original Essex House  ·  Restored & Reissued

The original Essex House imprint published some of the most daring fiction ever to appear in American paperback form — transgressive, psychedelic, and years ahead of its time. Founded in Los Angeles in 1968, it lasted barely two years before disappearing. New Essex House Press restores these titles to print exactly as they were written.

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Jane Gallion

Transgressive Fiction  ·  1960s – 1970s

Before transgressive fiction had a name, Jane Gallion was writing it. Working under the original Essex House imprint in the late 1960s, she produced a body of work that ignored every convention of the genre — books as likely to detonate a social norm as they were to titillate. Sex, drugs, rebellion, and an absolute refusal to behave. She was there first. New Essex House brings her back.

Biker by Jane Gallion — Essex House original paperback

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Biker

Jane Gallion

She wanted freedom. What she found was fire. In Biker, Jane Gallion delivers a fearless dive into an apocalyptic world of violence, driven by chaos, and fueled by the open road. It's a war story — about identity, power, and the price of living on the edge. Gallion's voice is sharp, unflinching, and decades ahead of its time. Biker isn't nostalgia — it's a punch to the gut that still lands hard today.

Stoned by Jane Gallion — Essex House original paperback

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Stoned

Jane Gallion

The sweet smell of marijuana fills the air — and suddenly Elaine's whole uptight world flips inside out. The kids can scream, the husband can go to hell — she's through being the perfect suburban wife. Now she's turning on, tuning in, and dropping out — into a wild whirl of love, dope, and liberation that tears through every polite barrier of her middle-class life. A diamond in the rough of pulp fiction about the late 1960s counterculture. Sexual liberation, drug culture, and the Vietnam War — Gallion captures the zeitgeist of the time brilliantly.

"Stoned is a diamond in the rough of pulp fiction about the late 1960s counterculture. Sexual liberation, drug culture and the Vietnam War, Jane Gallion captures the zeitgeist of the time brilliantly." — Andrew Nette, author of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys & Real Cool Cats
Coito Ergo Sum by Jane Gallion — collected edition

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Coito Ergo Sum

Jane Gallion

Biker, Stoned, and Going Down — three novels in one volume. The complete collected erotica of Jane Gallion. First published by Essex House in 1969, Biker and Stoned ripped through the myths of freedom and desire with prose as raw as it was fearless. Going Down completes the trip — dark, unsparing, and exclusive to this volume. Gallion's work is a literature of extremes: dangerous, hypnotic, and impossible to forget.

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Hank Stine

Essex House, 1968 – 1969  ·  Out of Print for Fifty Years

Hank Stine wrote two of the most distinctive novels to come out of the original Essex House — books that used the imprint's transgressive mandate to push into genuinely strange territory. Dark, psychedelic, and ahead of their time. Both have been out of print for over fifty years. Stine later transitioned and published under the name Jean Marie Stine, going on to edit Galaxy Science Fiction magazine and serve as editor-in-chief of the Starblaze science fiction line.

Season of the Witch by Hank Stine — Essex House 1968

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Season of the Witch

Hank Stine

Andre Fuller had been convicted of the brutal rape-murder of a young woman — but this was tomorrow, and concepts had changed. A human life was too valuable to throw away in a futile gesture of revenge. Andre learned that he must replace the life he had taken. He would become the woman he had killed. A bold and unsettling novel of punishment, transformation, and identity — where the ultimate experiment is the human soul itself. Originally published by Essex House in 1968, later adapted as the film Memory Run.

"A special combination of science fiction and pornographic detail and rhetoric. The quality of the novel artistically justifies this radical strategy." — 20th Century Science Fiction Writers

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Thrill City by Hank Stine — Essex House 1969

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Thrill City

Hank Stine

Set in a city devastated by World War Three, Thrill City is Stine at his most phantasmagoric. A horrific portrait of an America in violent disintegration — where sexual repression has exploded into psychic chaos, and the destructive side of Dionysus emerges not from individual men but from society as a whole. Underground pulp at full throttle. Essex House, 1969.

"Razorblade fiction!" — The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Tiny Alice

Essex House, 1969  ·  Out of Print for Fifty Years

Tiny Alice — the pen name of Alice Louise Ramirez — wrote one of the most singular novels in the Essex House catalog. A late-stage teenager newly arrived in Los Angeles from New Orleans, she fell in with the local science fiction writing community — Harlan Ellison, Philip José Farmer, Hank Stine — and out of those late-night sessions came The Geek. Ramirez went on to write under several pen names before the world of mainstream publishing claimed her.

The Geek by Tiny Alice — Essex House 1969

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The Geek

Tiny Alice

The carnival moved through the dust like a fever — a traveling world of lights, lies, and trembling flesh. Told by the one witness who saw everything and said nothing: the Geek's chicken. A notorious cult classic, The Geek is a hallucinatory descent into carnival life, desire, and the animal underneath. Dedicated to Harlan Ellison and Norman Spinrad, with a cover testimonial from Philip José Farmer. Essex House, 1969.

"A brutal hymn to the flesh — beautiful, obscene, and absolutely unforgettable." — Michael Perkins, The Secret Record

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