THE SPIDER MAN
Another late-in-coming translation of the work of Edogawa Ranpo, a novel that’s brainy and grotesque in equal measure, and never less than fully absorbing
ASH WEDNESDAY
A strange and eerie tale set in a sleepy town besieged by the spirits of everyone who ever died there
THE EYES OF THE CAT
When contemplating this horrific graphic novel I find that several terms invariably recur, namely bizarre, dreamlike, enigmatic and surreal
PREY
Among unmade John Carpenter screenplays PREY, a 98 page script hailing from the mid-1970s, is about average
MELTDOWN
John Carpenter has described this never-made script as “kind of HALLOWEEN in a nuclear power plant,” and that does indeed sum it up
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
THE FURY
Yet another example of a book that seems fated to be known more for the movie made from it than the text itself
BILLY MAJESTIC’S HUMPTY DUMPTY
B-movie delirium and pictorial audacity unite in this altogether unique concoction
ABOMINATIONS
A rare English translation of the comics of Belgium’s renowned Hermann
CODE BLUE: A LOVE STORY
An unabashedly depraved, darkly comedic short story from a longtime So Cal legend