Speaker’s Book:

• The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell

Dissecting the Golden Calf

Print:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Online:

• “Göbekli Tepe: the Birth of Religion” – National Geographic
• Video – “Modeling Göbekli Tepe” – National Geographic
• “Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey. A Preliminary Report on the 1995-1999 Excavations.”– Klaus Schmidt 
• “Neocortex Size as a Constraint on Group Size in Primates” – R.I.M. Dunbar

The Cthulhu Mythos: How an Awkward Nerd Created a Universe

Print:

• The Hound, by H.P. Lovecraft
• The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft
• A Guide To Mysterious San Francisco: Dr. Weirde’s Weirde Tours, by Weirde
• The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, by S.T. Joshi

Online:

• “They Took Our Myths” – Hugh Hancock
• “The Cult of Cthulhu: Real Prayer for a Fake Tentacle” – The Verge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spoz_1KyZiA

San Francisco: The Myth, the Legend, the Lost City of Atlantis(?)

Print:

• San Francisco: The Unknown City, by Helene Goupil, Josh Krist – On GoogleBooks
• Our story of Atlantis : Written Down for the Hermetic Brotherhood, by Phelon, W. P (1903, Hermetic Book Concern, out of print) – On Archive.org
• Survivors of Atlantis: Their Impact on World Culture, by Frank Joseph – On GoogleBooks
• The Atlantis Encyclopedia, by Frank Joseph – On GoogleBooks

Online:

• “How the Real Atlantis was Drowned” – Esther Inglis-Arkell
• “Beyond the Western Seas: The Quest for Modern Atlantis Continues” – Stephen Armstrong
• “San Francisco, the Home to the Lost Souls of Atlantis” – Wylddane’s Home
• “Atlantis and Mu” – mosaics depicting the mythical lost continents by Hilaire Hiler – Art and Architcture SF
• “Libertarians’ Delusional “New Atlantis” Fantasy: Floating Ocean City-states” – Salon.com
• “The Myth of the City: San Francisco as an American Urban Legend” – Bryan L. Norton

The New Age in the Middle Ages: Guglielma’s Female-centered Church

Print:

• Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, by Nancy Caciola
• The Heretic Saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate, Barbara Newman
• Stephen Wessley. “The Thirteenth-Century Guglielmites: Salvation through Women” in Medieval Women, by Derek Baker 

Online:

• “Papess Maifreda Visconti of the Guglielmites—New Evidence” – Mary K. Greer

Sex, Sadism, and Sacrilege: Russia’s Dirty Folktales

Print:

• Erotic Tales of Old Russia, by Alexander Afanasyev
• Russian Secret Tales: Bawdy Folktales of Old Russia, by Alexander Afanasyev
• Rabelais and His World, by Mikhail Bakhtin

Online:

• A Collection of 77 of Alexander Afanasyev’s Fairytale’s (in Russian) – 
• “Censorship in Folklore” – D. L. Ashliman
• “Mr Afanasiev’s Naughty Little Secrets: Russian Secret Tales” – Jack V. Haney
• “Coitus in the Symbolic Language of Slavic Culture” – Aleksandr V. Gura
• Russian Censored Tales Project

Tales of Caution: Blood, Gore & Stories for Small Children

Print:

• Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hillaire Belloc, illustrated by Edward Gorey
• Perceptions of Childhood in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle, by Jennifer Sattaur (also on GoogleBooks)
• Perrault’s Fairy Tales, by Charles Perrault, English translation of 1697 volume Contes de temps passé, illustrated by Gustave Dore 
• The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (2014 translation, uncensored edition)

Online:

• Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hillaire Belloc, 1941 reprint with original illustrations – Archive.org
• Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, illustrated by Harry Clarke, 1922 publication – Project Gutenberg
• “Origins of Children’s Literature” – Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians, British Library
• “The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear” – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• “Albert Weisgerber’s Grimm Fairy Tales” A Collection of Weisgerber’s Illustrations

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 Claudius Reich, Stuart Gripman, Jeff Scattini, Nancy Caciola, Andrey Tselikov, and Annetta Black. Thank you!