Carl Abrahamsson

California Infernal is back!

June 1, 2017

CALIFORNIA INFERNAL – ANTON LAVEY & JAYNE MANSFIELD AS PORTRAYED BY WALTER FISCHER is back! Eight additional colour pages, more than ten new photos, delicious pink cloth (to honour Jayne!) and some amazing new prints and deals! I have never been this proud of a book before. Check it out and you’ll understand why! TRAPART JUNE SPECIAL: For the entire month of June, you can get the standard edition with a 15% discount. Just enter JAYNE in the voucher box when you check out from the shop. That goes for the deluxe bundle too: 15% if you enter JAYNE in the voucher box at check out. Movie star Jayne Mansfield and notorious Satanist Anton LaVey met in 1966. Both were publicity conscious and made the most of the meetings, which evolved into friendship. Almost always present was German paparazzo Walter Fischer, stationed in Hollywood and catering to image- and scandal-hungry photo magazines all over the world. Fischer’s unique collection of photos takes us straight into...

Wormhole Staircase

May 24, 2017

A new little cine-spell sees the light of day. Opening the wormhole staircase together with Vanessa Sinclair. Who knows what this will bring? WORMHOLE STAIRCASE from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.

We come mind off

May 16, 2017

Another little video epic from the album Cut to fit the mouth, by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. This one is We Come Mind Off. The album is available from TRAPART (Europe) and Arcana Machine (US). Enjoy! WE COME MIND OFF from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.

An interview in the new issue of Rue Morgue

May 12, 2017

I was recently interviewed by Sean Plummer for the Canadian horror film magazine Rue Morgue. Sections of that interview was used for Plummer’s piece on Anton LaVey and his legacy, and the issue in question can be acquired HERE! To read the interview in its entirety, please read on. CARL ABRAHAMSSON / RUE MORGUE What does the word “Satan” mean to you now? And how has that word’s significance evolved for you over the years? From having been a term that I used ”mechanically”, i.e. via someone else’s definition, I now look at it as a hugely important psychological cluster/complex which always takes on immense historical proportions. Satan is an overall term for a mechanism that makes the world move onwards. For me, the Jungian ”Shadow” is very tied in with this. The more someone represses his own shadow, the more he will live in an ”adversarial neurosis” which means living in a dualistically simplified world-view guided by fear. Satan’s main job is to fuck...