Popular A Steamshovel Press Reader is an anthology of nine issues of the highly acclaimed conspiracy theory journal, Steamshovel Press. Topics Abbie Hoffman's death an assassination?; the role Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush played in the JFK assassination; Black Holes and the Trilateral Commission; Esoteric Conspiracism; American Nazis; JFK's LSD mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer; Shroud of Turin conspiracies; Danny Casolaro and the Inslaw Octopus; the Ustica plane disaster; the Mothman; Roswell; Area 51, the Aurora and the Moonbase; Bill Clinton's conspiratorial mentor, Carroll Quigley; anti-gravity research of secret society Nazis; cattle mutilation files of the FBI; Bob Dylan and mind control; Neal Cassady, Lew Welch and other Beat poets; Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza; and vampire deities.
Kenn Thomas works as a conspiracy investigator, university library archivist, and editor and publisher of the conspiracy magazine Steamshovel Press. For Feral House he has written The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, which helped expose the Inslaw scandal of the Reagan years. Thomas also co-edited (with Adam Parfrey) Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History into the 21st Century. His latest work is JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas.