Mule Hair

Journalist Steve Muehler gets more than he bargained for when he flies to North Dakota to research a little-known cult led by a reclusive figure who calls himself Mule Hair.<p>From the airport he's taken to the tiny town of Wahpeton and from there to an old opera house that is the hub of Mule Hair's compound. The fully stocked bar with red and white wines marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms is a signal of things to come. <p>Then High Priestess Abigail a stunning woman wearing all black leads him to Mule Hair who is looking down at the world from his loft and wearing black leather gloves and a smoking jacket autographed by Hugh Hefner.<p>Mueller has only just begun to take in the eccentricities of Mule Hair and his devoted group of followers. For the next seven weeks he will participate in a series of dark rituals that includes drugs autoerotic asphyxiation the eating of placenta pot pies forbidden sex and much more. <p>Join Mueller as he enters a secretive world. Here the concern is not so much the journey that Mule Hair and his followers are on; it is how that journey will end.