THE MIND PARASITES
A bizarre book with an even more bizarre history
Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
Looking back at the underground comix of the early 1970s, one finds that horror, unsurprisingly, was a popular topic
1998: The Year in Bedlam
Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics
A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER
I’ve always found Zelazny overrated, after all, and nor am I too fond of the type of whimsical silliness that suffuses A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER.
Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates
In HARRY AND THE PIRATES Harry is back in the driver’s seat. The book overall is far from the best of Lumley’s fiction, Necroscope related or otherwise, but is an enjoyable enough bit of old-fashioned cosmic horror.
MERKABAH RIDER: TALES OF A HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
This is the first of Edward M. Erdelac’s MERKABAH RIDER series of weird westerns.
MEDUSA
This profusely illustrated limited edition 2010 hardcover (which is already a collector’s item) was promoted as the definitive edition of this “neglected masterpiece,” featuring a newly written introduction by Colin Wilson and 12 short stories and a nonfiction piece by Visiak.
MALPERTUIS
Although it wasn’t published in English until 1998 (in an edition now sadly out of print), Jean Ray’s MALPERTUIS is one of the great novels of supernatural horror.
LAIRS OF THE HIDDEN GODS Vol. 2
This is the second of Kurodahan Press’ four volume LAIRS OF THE HIDDEN GODS anthology of Japanese Cthulhu Mythos, and, as with the first entry, it’s a first rate collection with excellent translations.
LAIRS OF THE HIDDEN GODS Volume 1
Here we have the first entry of a four volume English translation of this massive H.P. Lovecraft-inspired anthology, which initially appeared in Japan back in 2002.