The massive surrounding walls, built so as to take advantage of natural rock formations, now towered above us, and the spiky frillwork along the top suggested that at one time it had been a Turkish fortress […]

Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.

I used to harrangue the mob, in broken English, under pretence of being an High German doctor.

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