Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief

By Donna Kossy Second edition, published in 2001. A limited cache of discovered copies from both print editions of Donna Kossy's underground classic. Originally published in 1994 and expanded in 2001, Kooks is Kossy's landmark anthology drawn from her zine Kooks Magazine (1988–1991), documenting the outer reaches of human belief across seven sections: Religion, Science, Metaphysics, Politics, Conspiracy, Enigmas, and — in the expanded second edition — Outtakes. Densely illustrated with original documents, pamphlets, and ephemera, the book profiles flat-earthers, mind-control victims, flying-saucer contactees, hollow-earth theorists, anti- gravity researchers, and dozens of other visionaries operating at the edges of consensus reality — including the first published biography of Francis E. Dec. Kossy approaches her subjects with what reviewers have called a rare mix of objectivity, sympathy, and wit, treating extreme belief systems as cultural artifacts rather than objects of ridicule. The book was praised on release by the Los Angeles Times as “a rich compendium of looniness” and by the San Francisco Chronicle as “indispensable for anyone interested in the real cutting edge of thought.” All copies are brand new but show age and would be considered ‘shopworn’ in book- collector parlance. Available while supplies of these discovered copies last.