Author: Leon Avernicus
Alternate names: James Ridner; Melchior Weiss; Thomas Vancura
Bio: Pseudonymous author of erotic horror, libertine & political texts. His writings lay bare the constructs of moral, political and psychological systems dipped in nihilistic cynicism. Influenced by the painful euphoria of De Sade and revolutionary outcries of Stirner and Marx, his writing is an intensely evocative, surreally grotesque, irreverent critique of society.

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