Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members commit suicide.

Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God.

A many-layered account of the Tokyo subway gas attack in 1995, in which 12 people died, as told to the novelist Haruki Murakami by surviving victims and members and ex-members of the doomsday cult responsible. Out of the 3800 victims, Murakami tracked down only 60 willing to be interviewed.

On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. Here Vincent Bugliosi, D.A. on the case, reveals the true story behind the most famous mass murder case ever - the orgies, the willing murders, the brainwashing and the retaliation slayings.

Isis Whit is a member of the Elect of God , a religious cult based near Stirling. When her cousin Morag renounces her faith, it falls to Isis to venture out into the techno-ridden barreness of nineties Britain to save her. But Morag has embraced the ways of the unsaved with surprising vigour.

Presents the harrowing story of Carolyn Jessop who suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she had to take her children and flee.

Imagine growing up with 200 mothers and 200 fathers. What would it feel like to dress entirely in orange? What would it be like to swap your mother for a new orange family? A poignant story of a little boy alone in a house full of orange people.

An examination of gurus, the cults they inspire and the power they exercise. It takes as examples some of those considered to be modern gurus such as David Koresh and James Jones, and establishes what each of them has in common. It then discusses what they share with other more accepted gurus.

Placing an advert on the internet, in this modern take on Utopia, the author aims to say a million things about the world in which we live. It is the story of his attempt to recruit 100 people to create a perfect world.

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

A fresh new cover look for Frank Herbert's DUNE, the best-selling science fiction novel of all time.

This revision of the author's 1989 book includes three new chapters on cult developments in the 1990s, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine. There are also 32 new photographs.

Taking David Koresh and the Waco incident as a starting point, this is an analytical look at the troubled history of charlatan messiahs around the world. Koresh was neither the first, nor the most excessive, nor even the most misguided of cult leaders.

This work gives an account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history. Contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. Most of the images and stereotypes surrounding religious fringe movements can be traced to the 19th century.

A kooky, quirky, cheeky US debut.

Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-growing Movement.

This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences - the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil and the question of individual accountability.

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