Life After Death: and Other Stories

A deep dive into the subcultures of Los Angeles and London in the 1980s as glam turned to punk and goth.

Susan Compo captures the lives of aspiring musicians, scenesters, and obsessive fans—lives in which reality is a constant threat to cherished illusions, and death, while never far away, is sometimes not the end of the story.

Cathi Unsworth calls Life After Death “a dazzling time capsule that, once re-opened, brings back in vivid and lurid detail a counter-cultural moment that spanned citie...