KURT COBAIN - PAPERBACK COBAIN JOURNALS INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL

Tragic rocker KURT COBAIN's JOURNALS have been expanded by fourteen pages for paperback release - including material too "disturbing and bizarre" for the original publication.

Publishers RIVERHEAD were in possession of the extra material when the hardcover edition was released last year (02), but held it back due to its controversial nature.

Cobain - who committed suicide in April 1994 - had written a narrative concerning a serial killer, which may or may not have been fictional.

Riverhead's JULIE GRAU says, "Frankly, we had this the first time around, but we chose not to include it, because it's disturbing and bizarre.

"We checked, and there was a serial killer that shared some of the traits and biographic facts that he writes about. But it's hard to know if Kurt was inventing all of this but had pieces of facts he recalled.

"I think the first time, we thought it would skew the appreciation of all the material that was in here.

"Now that the hardcover has come out and the journals have been judged and read, we thought people could handle it."

Other supplementary writings include lyrics to an unrecorded songs called TRAVELIN' WHITE TRASH COUPLE and a cookie recipe.