Books by James Havoc

 5 GANGS, 5 TRIBES, 6 GUNS, 7 COFFINS AND A RAMPAGE OF BLOODY VENGEANCE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE Old California, 1840. The killing of gang boss Moses Gorch by a nameless prostitute starts a chain of events that  will lead to the the Six Sixes Clash, an apocalyptic uprising of the five indigenous tribes anointed by the emperor Moctezuma three centuries earlier. At the centre of this is the Killer, a mysterious and heavily scarred female assassin whose mission is to reclaim the sacred six-gun Red Demon and foment a final uprising in the emperor's  name. In this fast-moving gothic western, Havoc delineates a mythic zone where internecine gang brutality, genocide and tribal death magic intersect in a corruscating new vision of frontier history. 

 WHITE SKULL: 1666. The 16-year-old man-boy known only by the nom-de-guerre Misson sails to Madagascar in the wake of the English pirate William Kid. After months at sea he reaches the Butcher's Triangle and there encounters Captain Tew and his voodoo kingdom. Misson attempts to establish a republic on the island but his cohorts are overtaken by a holocaust of evil and the young voyager marries his own vanishing-point beyond the horizon of both sea and human experience. Misson was the precursor of Rimbaud and Lautreamont, the third part of a doomed teenage triumvirate destined to stain future consciousness by their actions and words. WHITEˆSKULL is his story, a story depicting the terrible violence of the imagination and the assassination of liberty by a savage universe. 

 SATANSKIN is the collection of "graveyard erotica" first published in 1992, twenty stories promising "sex magick, lunar mutiny, excremental demonolatry, in utero lycanthropy, sadomasochistic vampirism, oneiric post-mortem malediction, and other bizarre manias".  In Devil's Gold, a transsexual pact with faecal demons leads to unbounded metamorphoses; a maniac with White Meat Fever steals female anatomy to usurp the moon; skinless nuns with Shadow Sickness fall prey to a priapic scavenger from Hell; a hapless traveller enters the Tongue Cathedral and finds himself inside a vampire's wet-dream; in The Venus Eye, an angel wreaks retribution on a paedophiliac butcher from within her coffin.