Drug addicts, hustlers, pimps, boozers, suicidal losers... The authors we’ve collected in the Cult Fiction section encompass a wide range of life experiences but one thing is certain – each of their works is about as subtle as a boot stomping on your face. Antonin Artaud said it best: “If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” All of the cult fiction authors reviewed here are “signaling through the flames” in one way or another.

Here you will discover offbeat reviews, quotes and trivia dealing with some of the classics of cult fiction such as William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Frederick Exley’s A Fan’s Notes, Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Louis Ferdinand Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night, Harry Crews’ A Feast of Snakes, Hubert Selby Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn, Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and much more.

Best of all, Alternative Reel is completely interactive – so we definitely encourage you to rate the books, leave comments and provide us suggestions about cult fiction works we somehow (through ignorance, stupidity or neglect) left off our list. Enjoy!