The Hashish Club: An Anthology of Drug Literature, Volume Two: The Psychedelic Era: From Huxley to Lennon ed. Peter Haining (Peter Owen, 1975, 0-7206-0014-6, £3.25, 160pp, hc, an, cover by Keith Cunningham)
Anthology of “drug literature” with 19 stories and articles tracing the field from Aldous Huxley to John Lennon. Each piece and each section has an introduction by Haining.
- 13 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 17 · I
- 20 · The First Third · Neal Cassady · ss (r)
- 24 · Writing Dreams · Jack Kerouac · ex from Book of Dreams, City Lights Books, 1960
- 33 · I Am Dying, Meester? · William S. Burroughs · ss (r)
- 37 · The Great Being · Allen Ginsberg · ss (r)
- 43 · II
- 48 · LSD Is Air · Timothy Leary · ar 1968
- 52 · The Joyous Cosmology · Alan Watts · ex 1962
- 60 · Good Ole Cagey Cage · William J. Craddock · ex from Be Not Content, Doubleday, 1970
- 67 · A Trip to Stonesville · Andrew Weil · ex from The Natural Mind, Houghton Mifflin, 1972
- 75 · III
- 78 · The Wind at Beni Midar · Paul Bowles · ss (r)
- 89 · My King · Henri Michaux · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Mon Roi”, La Nuit Remue, 1935).
- 95 · The Blood of a Wig · Terry Southern · ss Evergreen Review #49, October 1967
- 109 · The Long Book · Alexander Trocchi · ss (r)
- 125 · IV
- 130 · Neville Club · John Lennon · ss In His Own Write by John Lennon, Jonathan Cape, 1964
- 133 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas · Hunter S. Thompson · ex Random House, July 7 1972
- 140 · Fable the Third · Smokestack El Ropo · ss Bedside Reader by Smokestack El Ropo, Straight Arrow, 1972
- 144 · “A Conscious Tool of the Universe” · Jerry Garcia · ss (r)
- 151 · Epilogue
- 152 · A Visionary Prediction · Aldous Huxley · ar Playboy November 1963, as “Hallucinogens: A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction”
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