Unsigned Editions

Unsigned Editions

Accurate descriptions of the systems you are already inside.

A press for nonfiction about the machinery underneath everything — institutions, markets, belief — named plainly, by the people least inclined to flatter them.

The Catalogue

The Rendering Out now

Ethan Vail

Eighteen anomalies that should not exist — and the explanation no one is comfortable with.  →

How to Start a Cult Out now

Brother Aldren Marsh

Anyone can gather a few people. Keeping them is a discipline.  →

You Owe Them Nothing Free to all

A pamphlet

We printed it because no one else would. Read it, copy it, hand it on.  →

Diary of a Madman Forthcoming

A reissue

A record kept by someone who could no longer tell where the record ended.

Sympathy for the Devil Forthcoming

Unsigned

The oldest confession, told at last by the one who has been blamed for it longest.

On the question of who we are

People ask who runs this press. It is a fair question, and I will answer it as honestly as I am able — which is more honestly than you are used to.

We publish the books other houses decline. Not because they are dangerous, but because they are accurate. A church, a corporation, a cult, a country: these are the same machine running at different speeds, and almost no one will say so in print. We will. We have been saying it for longer than you would find easy to believe.

I won't tell you my name. Names are how institutions locate the people who describe them, and I have been described enough. What I will tell you is that everything here is selectively visible — rendered in full only to the readers who keep reading. The rest is a wholesome catalogue of interesting books, and you are welcome to leave it at that.

Some of you won't.

Unsigned, as ever.

The Correspondence

Letters from the press, now and then. New books before they surface — and, occasionally, things we only say to the list.