James Shelby Downard's STALKING THE GREAT WHORE

Highly Recommended: James Shelby Downard's recently published book, STALKING THE GREAT WHORE, is a compelling read. Editor/publisher Adam Gorightly went to a great deal of trouble to preserve this neglected manuscript, most of which was no doubt written in the 1970s. If not for Gorightly's herculean efforts, these posthumously discovered writings would have remained lost forever. Whether seen as fictional or nonfictional, sane or insane, the fact is that Downard's reality tunnel had an incalculable effect on pop culture. In releasing these visionary musings for publication, Gorightly has uncovered the motherlode of almost every conspiratorial obsession that would eventually become de rigueur for all the conspiracy 'zines that popped up in the late 1980s/'90s, not to mention every subsequent website, blog, and chatroom that ever catered to High Strangeness. If you have an irresistible desire to know what it feels like to freebase 100% pure paranoia, take a chance on STALKING THE GREAT WHORE. 

Recommended Listening: Check out Adam Sayne and Serfeil Stevenson's 4-25-23 CONSPIRINORMAL interview with Adam Gorightly (editor/publisher of STALKING THE GREAT WHORE: THE LOST WRITINGS OF JAMES SHELBY DOWNARD). Here's Sayne and Stevenson's description of the episode:

"Adam Gorightly joins us to discuss a project that he has been working on over the last few years and has now finally published. That is the lost writings of James Shelby Downard published as 'Stalking the Great Whore.' We speak to Adam about his process collecting and going through the writings and organizing it. We then talk about some of the themes Downard writes about and more of the fantastical experiences Downard mentions in the book."

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Further Recommended Listening: Check out Adam Sayne and Serfeil Stevenson's 6-1-23 CONSPIRINORMAL interview with Dr. Richard Spence, who wrote the afterword to STALKING THE GREAT WHORE: THE LOST WRITINGS OF JAMES SHELBY DOWNARD. Here's Sayne and Stevenson's description of the episode:

"We are joined by Richard B. Spence to talk about his research he did on the life of James Shelby Downard as laid out in his afterword to "Stalking the Great Whore". He delves into some of the circumstances of Downard's life and if anything he wrote might have some basis in fact."

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Dr. Richard Spence 4 (More Downard Secrets and Royal Imposters)