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A powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-La Bianca), John Gilmore now draws upon his personal experiences to turn his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it extracts from those who would pursue it. With caustic clarity and 20/20 hindsight, Gilmore unstintingly recounts his relationships with the likes of Janis Joplin, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Jane Fonda, Jean Seberg and Lenny Bruce on the way up and at the peaks of their notoriety. In baring his role in James Dean's attempts to push the bounds of sexual experimentation, Gilmore explores the actor's legendary fascination with speed and death. With hip, vivid prose, Gilmore describes his illuminating and often haunting first-hand encounters with Hank Williams, Ed Wood, Jr., Briggite Bardot, Sal Mineo, Eartha Kitt, Charles Manson, Jayne Mansfield, Vampira, Steve McQueen and many other denizens of the 20th century's dubious Pantheon. The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell and this impenetrable mystery was the haunting crown jewel of LAPD's unsolved murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitu, was known as the Black Dahlia. Since her horrible demise, she has become a magnetic icon in American pop culture, a mythical symbol of noir Hollywood. In this new, expanded edition, John Gilmore plumbs to the dark core of this terrifying story that he argues can never be truly solved and delivers to us the real Elizabeth Short, the girl who became the enigmatic Black Dahlia. He ushers the reader into her world and her life in intimate, searing, explosive, first-hand revelations. "The most satisfying and disturbing conclusion to the Black Dahlia case. After reading Severed , I feel like I truly know Elizabeth Short and her killer." David Lynch "The most uncanny evocation of LA during and after the war... His portrait of Elizabeth Short as a strange, unknowable somnambulist sleepwalking through that unique junction of time and space is permanently haunting." Gary Indiana Legendary Noir Author John Gilmore Takes The Reader On A Mad, Tumultuous All-night Drive Without Remorse Or Pity, The High And Low Life Of Hollywood And The City Of Angels. Gilmore Delivers A Relentless Panorama Of Sex, Violence And Death In Five Raw Chronicles: Porn Legend John Holmes And Untouchable Los Angeles Crime And Drug Impresario Eddie Nash--the Unvarnished Story Of The Sex-and-coke-laced Wonderland Murders Told From The Inside Out; King Of Western Swing And Early Tv Fiddlin' Cowboy Phenomenon Spade Cooley Walks The Line Of Nightmare, Tragedy And Murder; Hollywood's Fallen Angel Barbara Payton--hell-bent On Descending From Movie Star Sexpot To Tinsel Town's Gutters And Dumpsters; From Gorgeous Teensage Hollywood Hooker To San Quentin's Gas Chamber--the Infamous Ice Blonde Murderess Barbara Graham; And Highway Hitchhike-killer Billy Cook Unleashes His Cold-blooded Hate For The Human Race In One Of The 20th Century's Most Grisly Crimes.--from Publisher Description. John Gilmore. This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low life of Hollywood/LA. Gilmore obsesses on a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five new chronicles of So Cal *the sex-and-drug soaked Wonderland murders featuring porn legend John Holmes *Sexpot Starlet Barbara Payton's hellbent descent into the gutters of Tinseltown *the Hollywood Hooker who landed in San Quentin's gas chamber, the Ice Blonde Murderess Barbara Graham For those already steeped in the canon of John Gilmore's work, this is the long-awaited true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners, nightclubs and cheap motels. The persona of Charles Manson and his bizarre sway over the Family remains riveting a quarter century down the line. Manson is a gripping account of one of the most chilling and fascinating crime sagas of our time, now available in a revised and updated edition containing 36 pages of previously unpublished photographs. New vectors into the kaleidoscopic tale that spins inexorably out of the slayings emerge in this updated edition (previously titled Garbage People ) with new material on killer Bobby Beusoleil and his occult alliance with experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger. The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell . . . an impenetrable mystery—the haunting crown jewel of LAPD’s “unsolved” murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué, was known as the Black Dahlia—now a magnetic icon in American pop culture, an almost mythical symbol of noir Hollywood. In this expanded edition, John Gilmore plumbs the dark core of this terrifying story that he argues can never be truly solved. Here is the real Elizabeth Short—the enigmatic Black Dahlia. Offers A Documented And Reasoned Solution To One Of The Strangest Of All Unsolved Murders In The Annals Of Modern Crime, The Murder Of Aspiring Starlet Elizabeth Short In Los Angeles In 1947. John Gilmore. L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times is a fascinating work of true-crime literature and a singular book by one of the most defiantly original authors of our time.