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The past decade has been an important one for Skeletor. He has emerged from his image as a melodramatic Saturday Morning TV supervillian and revealed himself to be, not only a skilled actor, but an accomplished author and skilled political analyst and diplomat. Skeletor has been one of the driving literary forces of the last ten years, whose works have immediately placed an indelible mark on American culture. Here, we document his works, with a summary and brief comment on each. |
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The Deaths of Kings: My Life and Times by Skeletor. (Random House, $24.95, 1992) - Skeletor's revealing autobiography, and his first book. This powerful piece of literature, written in Skeletor's elegant and eloquent style, tears away, once and for all, the popular image of Skeletor as an unfeeling, evil supervillian, and instead shows him as he is: an artist, a thinker, a philosopher who has led a troubled life.
"Riveting...Skeletor shows himself a master storyteller as he recounts his own life...He writes in an eloquent style that cannot be described but must simply be felt." - New York Times |
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House of Bones: The Poetry of Skeletor by Skeletor (Penguin, $15.95, 1994) - Skeletor publishes sixty-seven poems he has written over the course of his life. Often evocative of Ginsberg, his off-the-beaten-path poetry is sometimes bizarre, sometimes morbid, and always fascinating. Here he puts decades of emotion - pain, joy, sadness, love - into a few lines of verse, and one cannot help but be moved. Also included is the first section of his epic poem "Ziusudra", begun during his days in Bangalore in the mid-seventies.
"An incredible book, comparable to Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Skeletor shows us his soul, and tells us, once again, that strength can come from the strangest places." - Time |
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Peace in Our Time by Skeletor (Random House, $29.95, 1997) - This work chronicles the history of the Middle East Conflict, and details the peace process that nearly ended it. Skeletor's proposal - the partitioning of Israel and the internationalization of Jerusalem - was first proposed in his daily New York Post column. The book chronicles how it gained widespread support, and it's implementation. An important work detailing the near-end of one of the world's worst conflicts.
"Reading this, it's no wonder why Skeletor was nearly nominated on the Republican ticket for 2000. He is an astute politician who's influence - here in it's most blatant form - cannot be undersold." - USA Today |
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Honor and Pain by Skeletor (Random House, 1999, $24.95) - Skeletor's much-criticized book on human ambition for power. Written in the first person, in the person of one desperately seeking power, and trying to explain why, this book was oft-criticized for it's bizarre presentation. Skeletor considers it a work of semi-fiction, fiction-nonfiction, in that he presents fact within a fictional framework. He chose to write in this fashion, he claims, because he is an actor most widely associated with a megalomaniacal supervillian. He chose to write this work to reconcile himself with that image, and to show others what not to do on the path of power.
"Vastly underrated...a beautiful work." - Los Angeles Times |
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Lamentations: A Novel by Skeletor (Random House, $11.95, 2002)
- Skeletor's latest work, and his first attempt at prose fiction. Here, the master again proves his mastery of human emotion. Here, we have a tale of epic proportions, a tale of man and environment. The plot centers around the nameless protagonist, an unwitting participant in the destruction of the world. A tale of light battling darkness, Skeletor takes a photograph of the demons that haunt us all.
"Powerful stuff. Definitely Skeletor's magnum opus." - Reader's Digest |
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"A fool guised in wisdom is still a fool."
-Skeletor, Honor and Pain |
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