The Nightclerk: Being His Perfectly True Confession

By Stephen Schneck

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394179757
• ISBN13: 9780394179759
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Anton LaVey must have loved this book.

Schneck was a member of Anton LaVey's Magic Circle, then the Church of Satan. This book was first published in 1966, the year the Church of Satan was founded. The subject matter is a type in which Anton LaVey had the highest interest. Some concepts important to LaVey will be found in this book. One wonders if they originated with LaVey, or Schneck, or perhaps evolved among discussions within the Magic Circle.

A lost classic of the 60s

Stephen Schneck's Night Clerk is a dark, sad, funny and generally phatasmagoric study of a man's search for salvation through reminiscence and fantasy. Written with a Nabokovian love for language, the book is recommended for readers who appreciate the Coen Brothers Barton Fink, Lolita, Candy, Naked Lunch and Steppenwolf. At one time, Orson Welles was going to play the title character in a film adaptation...ah, those were the days. Last time I looked the Strand bookstore had a few copies of this Grove Press classic.

A cult clasic, the definitive psychedelic S & M phantasmagoria

In the Jean Genet/William Burroughs tradition, this criminal insider's novel of illusion, drugs, abduction, sadomasochistic domination and submission, hallucinatory plot revisions and time warps would be underground even in Haight-Ashbury of the late 60's. It's "Naked Lunch" meets "The Story of O" where reality is illusion and morality is from the Marquis. The decade's best of it's genre, but of such an esoteric genre that it keeps going out of print