Speaker Book:
- The Life of P. T. Barnum, by P.T. Barnum
John James Audubon & the Fabricated Fauna
Online:
- How Audubon Pranked a Fellow Naturalist with a Bulletproof Fish – Allison Meier
- “An Odd Fish” Who Swam Against the Tide – Smithsonian
Print:
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: A Voice in the American Wilderness, by Leonard Warren
- John James Audubon: The Making of an American, by Richard Rhodes
Cowards, Drunks & Troublemakers: Cutting Deep with Cutthroat Insults
Online:
- What are Cutthroat Compounds? – Encyclopedia Briannica
- Strong Language: A Sweary Blog About Swearing
- On the Origin of Fuck – Kate Wiles
- The Timelines of Slang – Jonathan Green (Mr Slang)
- “Verb-Noun Compounds in English and German” – Volker Gast
Print:
- Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities, by Paul Anthony Jones
- Damn the Man: Slang of the Oppressed in America, by Tom Dalzell
- Dictionary of the Canting Crew (1698), by B.E. Gent (available online at Archive.org)
- Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811), by Francis Grose (available online at Project Gutenberg)
Of Jackalopes & Wolpertingers
Online:
- Douglas Herrick, 82, Dies; Father of West’s Jackalope – NY Times
- The Wolpertinger in Bavaria
- Very Still Life: A Review of Simon Carnell’s Hare – House Rabbit Society
- Horned Hares, a Family of Fantastic Animals – Michel Wiedemann
- The Jackalope, Wolpertinger, or Lebrilope – Taxidermidades
- Horned Hares – A Potted (or Should That Be Jugged?) History! – Dr. Karl Shuker
- Move Over Elvis: History Hopping with Jackalope Sightings – SF Gate
- Gaff vs Gaffe – Cryptomundo
- Jackalope’s Eve – Black and White Words and Pictures
- Mythical Creatures: Wolpertinger – GEOlino
Print:
- Mit Dem Wolpertinger Leben, Michael Heim and Hans Reiser
Rakes, Trolls & the Hellfire Club
Online:
- High Politics and Hellfire: William Hogarth – Robin Simon FSA
- Riots, Revelries, and Rumor: Libertinism and Masculine Association in Enlightenment London
- The Hell-Fire Clubs – Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
- The Hell-Fire Club – Hell-Fire Caves
Print:
- The Hell Fire Club, by Daniel P. Mannix
- The Hell-Fire Friars: Sex, Politics and Religion, by Gerald Suster
- The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies, by Evelyn Lord
The Murky Machinations of Pirates
Online:
- Eat Like a Pirate – National Geographic
Print:
- The Golden Age of Piracy, by Stephen R. Bown
- Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, by Charles Johnson
Devilish Doings & the Church of Satan
Online:
Print:
- The Satanic Bible, by Anton Szandor LaVey
- The Church of Satan: A History of the World’s Most Notorious Religion, by Blanche Barton
- The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey, by Blanche Barton & Anton Szandor LaVey
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Stuart Gripman, Bri Hughes, Justin Oliphant, Ryan Galiotto, Hanah Yendler, and Morgan Marquis-Boire. Thank you!
