SURFIN' WITH SATAN
THE STRANGE CASE OF
CHARLIE MANSON AND THE BEACH BOYS

SUMMER OF HATE 68
Behind the 60s media images of bronzed surfers and nude hippies frolicking in the California sun, lay a far grimmer reality: Hell’s Angels dealing in drugs, prostitution and violence; occultism; race hate; venereal disease; rape; and a strange, homicidal “family” gathering like scorpions in the LA desert.

It was against this convergent backdrop of increasingly dark forces that two men – one, a wealthy rock star from The Beach Boys, and the other, an unknown but messianic career criminal – crossed paths in the summer of 1968.

SURFIN’ WITH SATAN is an in-depth, illustrated analysis of the relationship between Charles Manson and Dennis Wilson, with background details on both men’s ongoing preoccupations – Wilson’s music and hedonism, Manson’s rock-star aspirations and formative murder manifesto Helter Skelter – and the way in which they briefly and fatefully intertwined. With over 50 telling photographs.

Documents of Culture X-Series, Volume 1
A limited collector’s edition of 69 copies only.

Large format chapbook (8.5 X 11 inches), 40 pages,
coated art paper, saddle-stitched, 52 photographic images.

A LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION
(69 COPIES ONLY)

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