Screwjack: A Short Story

A rare collection of wild and outlandish short stories—long thought to be lost—by literary legend Hunter S. Thompson featuring a new introduction by Metallica founding member Lars Ulrich.

Hunter S. Thompson’s notorious triptych Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since its private printing in 1991.

“We live in a jungle of pending disasters,” Thompson warns in the opening piece “Mescalito,” a fictionalized chronicle of his first mescaline e...