Quirk, Kink And Death Play In Shadow At ‘maison Close’

Quirk, Kink And Death Play In Shadow At ‘maison Close’

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

The two-page spread shows gorecore dead bodies. Flip. Semi-nude models cower on the next page. Flip. Another page turn returns to violent carnage.

Inside two joined shophouses, Stephen Bessac is flipping through the pages of one of his magazines. Bessac is a collector. Vintage porn. Pagan iconography. Profane art. They line the walls and fill display cabinets in a venue that is part dark parlor for unbound expression and also a place to store his vast catalog of apocalypse culture.

“I’ve been collecting these things all my life. Every country I visit, I always try to find weird magazines, posters, old videos … something weird and local like black magic artifacts,” Bessac said.

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