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HOLIDAYS

A product of the horror anthology craze of the 2010s that isn’t as terrible as many claim

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HWY: AN AMERICAN PASTORAL

A film made by the late Jim Morrison that’s best viewed as exactly what it was: a preview for bigger and better things that unfortunately never arrived

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THE DOORS

RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS

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COLD FRONT

A recently republished 1980s horror novel that’s strong, descriptive and thoroughly Canadian

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SKIN

The third and most widely praised of Kathe Koja’s grunge-era horror novels, resissued in a snazzy new edition

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MR. TURTLE

A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger

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FOG HEART

In my view one of the absoloute finest books by horror writer extraordinaire Thomas Tessier

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IMAGES

A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch

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On SLEAZOID EXPRESS

Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation of anything of its particular type.”

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