HELLSTROM’S HIVE

There are some good ideas in this, a post-DUNE Frank Herbert science fiction novel bearing a concept that evidently obsessed him: human-insect hybridization

BIG GURL

What the Hell were Thom Metzger and Richard P. Scott thinking when they created this near-indescribably nutty concoction?

THE VOICE OF THE CLOWN

For much of its existence this novel was just another of the countless undistinguished horror paperbacks that cluttered the 1980s fiction market

THIS THING BETWEEN US

This novel’s David-Searcy-meets-Stephen-King-meets-Philip-K.-Dick aesthetic makes for an invigorating reading experience

THE SWALLOWER SWALLOWED

Here we have the psychotic inverse of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: an unsparing first-person account of adolescent upset and dissatisfaction

CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN

The first solo novel by Richard Chizmar was this unique account of crime and detection, which blends autobiography and crime fiction