Have you heard rumors about the mysterious deaths in Disneyland? Or that occult ritual magic is behind the appearance of UFO's? Was mind control the hidden trigger that blew JFK away? Is Tuesday Weld a high priestess of the Bavarian Illuminati? These and many other strange spectres inhabit the pages of The Beast of Adam Gorightly: Collected Rantings 1992-2004. Mr. Gorightly, a certified 'crackpot historian' and 33rd degree Mason, has over the last decade chronicled such unwieldy subjects in his many articles and books. The Beast of Adam Gorightly is the culmination of these arcane journeys into the hinterlands of high weirdness, delving into the darkness, and unraveling the mummy folds that await his readers there. Proceed at your own possible ruin!
This is one of the best overviews I've seen of the countercultural-parapolitics scene of the 1990s, including especially some must-read pieces on Charles Manson, ketamine and DMT, and Kerry Thornley. This reminds the reader of how central a figure Gorightly was and remains for this kind of material. My only criticism here is that an effort should have been made to find a copy editor for this book, any copy editor: there are large sections where the incidence of serious grammatical and punctuation errors is about one or two per sentence, and this is a tremendous distraction for the reader.