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Distractions Publications is proud to announce the publication of the sole
digital edition of This Tragic Earth: The Art and World of Richard Sharpe
Shaver.
This Tragic Earth gives a unique, long-overdue look into the art and mind of Richard
S. Shaver.
Featuring a facsimile of an actual hand-made book proposal by Shaver,
sent to Ray Palmer, this volume also contains literally hundreds of other, lost
images taken from one-of-a-kind "rogfogo" or "rock books" by Shaver. These
images, taken from photo exposures of slices of solid rock, contain eerie and
inexplicable images of people, monsters, creatures, structures, and
devices—images which defy all rational explanation. Shaver claimed that these
"books" were records left in crystal holography by an ancient race of beings who
preceded man on this planet, or were contemporary with our
ancestors.
Also
featured are long-lost articles on how to find and create such images, written
and illustrated by Shaver himself, along with unique correspondence, interviews,
and other material that give a unique look into the mind and theories of Richard
S. Shaver, his one-of-a-kind "outsider artwork", and his infamous "Shaver
Mystery". Much of the additional material has not been seen for decades, and
when it was available, it was not widely circulated and was only seen by a few
people, particularly the explanations and theories which were written by Richard
Shaver for science-fiction fanzines of the 1940s.
The
contents of this book should interest anomalies researchers, Forteans,
paranormal enthusiasts and investigators, science-fiction historians and fans,
and all those interested in "outsider art". Nothing as utterly dedicated to
Shaver's own thoughts and artwork has ever been produced before. |
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