Transgressive Fiction · Restored Classics
Making Books Dangerous Again.
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Transgressive Fiction · Restored Classics
Making Books Dangerous Again.
New Essex House Press publishes transgressive fiction, erotic literature, and the restored classics of the original Essex House imprint — the Los Angeles publisher that, from 1968 to 1970, gave some of the most daring writing in America a place to exist. The original Essex House is gone. The books survived. We bring them back alongside new voices working in the same spirit.
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1960s – 1970s · Essex House Originals
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 didn't write outside the lines. She burned the lines down.”View All Essex House Classics →
From the Original Essex House
Long out of print. Back where they belong.
Rikki de la Vega · Ongoing Series · 15 Volumes
The Free Spirit Series
Sex-positive erotica built on love, truth, peace, and bliss. Richly developed characters, uninhibited sex scenes free of guilt, and a social message woven through every volume. Each book stands completely alone — begin anywhere.
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A Nonfiction Imprint from New Essex House
Books for the obsessed, the marginal, and the deeply weird.
A wild tour through the outer fringes of film history. Cult movies, lost science fiction, underground film madness.
A soul-shattering look at sleazy ’60s cinema. The definitive encyclopedia of the roughie exploitation genre.
The Essex House experiment 1968–1970. The lost adults-only avant-garde imprint, excavated and documented.
The Bedlam Files · AGiTSMUT
Adam Groves has spent years documenting the margins of cinema — the cult films, the forgotten titles, the movies that left marks on the people who found them. His writing lives at the intersection of film criticism and personal essay, blending sharp analysis with the kind of enthusiasm that can only come from someone who has actually watched every film he writes about. Creator of The Bedlam Files, one of the web's most dedicated resources for cult and underground cinema.
The Roughie!
Robert McGee is a film historian and YouTube personality specializing in exploitation cinema. His forthcoming Rebel Heart title will be the definitive reference work on the roughie genre — encyclopedic in scope, written by someone who has actually watched every film.
Rebel Heart · Advance Notice
