THRILLING MURDER COMICS

An underground comic in which S. Clay Wilson, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch and others turned away from their standard choice of subject matter—sex and drugs—to focus on a new taboo: murder

BITCH

A sexier, druggier variant on THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR

THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS

Fifteen stories: energetic and focused to a fault, and exhibiting an unnerving willingness to gaze unblinkingly into the darkest depths of madness, mutilation and sexual deviance

IN THE DARK

By 1994 the late Richard Laymon had been a professional writer for over fifteen years, and that accumulated skill illuminates IN THE DARK

9/30/55

A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s

THE STRANGERS

A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness