A CRACKUP AT THE RACE RIOTS
A curiously beautiful, one of a kind grotesquerie from the inimitable Harmony Korine
GHOSTBURB PSYCHO
From the land down under, a black-humored exercise in demented misanthropy that recalls FANTAZIUS MALLARE and FIGHT CLUB.
PIRANESI
A surreal fantasy that I found overrated
THE BRIDGE
One of the bleakest, nastiest, most despairing dystopian novels of the 1970s, written, ironically enough, by a devout Christian
MONUMENTAL
A taut and cinematic blast of old school horror
RESUME WITH MONSTERS
Comedic horror about a working drudge and his encounters with Lovecraft’s monsters, who are looking to take over the world, starting with the copy shop where he works—yes, RESUME WITH MONSTERS is that kind of book
RENE’S FLESH
A bizarre, Kafka-esque parable of a young man’s adverse relationship to his own flesh
BOMBYX
Ultra-paranoid psychological horror from Richard Christian—or R.C.—Matheson and Mick Garris
BLACK COCKTAIL
A typically odd and unpredictable contemporary fantasy by the inimitable Jonathan Carroll, a 76-page novella about all sorts of things
EPOCH: A POETIC PSY-PHI SAGA
This “Poetic Psy-Phi Saga” does the famed epic science fiction poem ANIARA one better, offering an even more epic example of SF poetry