Documents of Culture X-Series kicks off with the Manson/Beach boys connection

book-cover-surfin-with-satan-frontWhile much has been made of Charles Manson’s interaction with the music world, especially in Tommy Udo’s Charles Manson: Music Mayhem Murder, there’s yet to be the definitive examination of his work with the Beach Boys. It’s the interplay between Dennis Wilson and Manson that came the closest to being an actual musical collaboration between a mass-murder guru and pop icon.

Creation BooksSurfin’ With Satan: The Strange Case of Charles Manson and the Beach Boys is the first book in the publisher’s Documents of Culture X-Series. The book, as the publisher puts it:

[A]n in-depth, illustrated analysis of the relationship between Charles Manson and Dennis Wilson, with background details on both men’s ongoing preoccupations – Wilson’s music and hedonism, Manson’s rock-star aspirations and formative murder manifesto Helter Skelter – and the way in which they briefly and fatefully intertwined.

It’s limited to 69 copies, and will run you $29 for the 40-page book, with over 50 “telling” photographs. Pre-order the chapbook at Creation Books.