The Rig Veda, written in India about 1500BC, praises a holy plant called Soma, which is sacrificed and consumed, granting the drinker an experience of enlightenment and ecstasy. The late Gordon Wasson identified Soma as a "magic mushroom," Amanita...
False Documents, by Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey), is a series of Borgesian and Nabokovian fictions, each pretending to be a document from various literary, commercial, or otherwise culturally-pertinent contexts. Together they comprise an exciting...
Do you hate short stories but love tales? Like Tales of Hoffman, Lord Dunsany, Borges, Isak Dinesen, Calvino, Jack Vance's Dying Earth, Leonora Carrington, Theodore Sturgeon, Angela Carter, L. Frank Baum...? Then... maybe you'll like these. Take them...