DR. BLOODMONEY
One of the late Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels, involving nuclear war, mutants and a disc jockey in space
ASHES, ASHES
An extended Hieronymus Boschian cavalcade of destruction in a futuristic milieu, written back in 1943
ANCIENT OF DAYS
An “Anthropological SF Masterpiece”? Not quite, but a damn good novel nonetheless
JOYRIDE
The word for this splatterific book is fun—dumb fun, yes, but fun, nonetheless
SUPERGIRL
This is about what you would expect quality-wise from a novelization of what was (until the 1987 release of SUPERMAN 4: THE QUEST FOR PEACE) the worst of the SUPERMAN movies
SEVEN COFFINS FOR THE KILLER
The final novel by the late James Williamson, writing as James Havoc, who offers up a full blast of splatterific nastiness in a wild west milieu
DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND
The legendary early-1900s comic strip by Windsor McCay, which I found authentically dreamlike
THE SOULSUCKER
A long out-of-print paperback, involving blood drinking alien spiders, that really isn’t very good at all
THE WILD
Whitley Strieber once called this his “breakthrough” novel and then decided it wasn’t all that; in truth it falls somewhnere in between those poles
NIGHTSHADE & DAMNATIONS
A grouping of the best stories of the inimitable Gerald Kersh, selected and introduced by the equally inimitable Harlan Ellison