Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

by Hunter S. Thompson

Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Hunter...

Screwjack: A Short Story

by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson’s most searing and unnaturally poignant love story, Screwjack is simultaneously eerie and feverish, debauched and affecting.

Never before—and perhaps never since—has modern man’s melancholia...

Death of a Poet

by Hunter S. Thompson

With savage wit, Thompson chronicles a doomed rendezvous in a Green Bay trailer park. The Packers have lost, and the author's friend -- "a bad drinker and a junkie for mass hysteria" -- has come unhinged. "Welcome...

Mescalito

by Hunter S. Thompson

Suggesting the nascent ideas and energy of his seminal book on the 60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Mescalito" features Duke's first mescaline trip. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters,"...