PLAN B
A posthumously published novel by the late Chester Himes that like most posthumously published novels has a number of problems
HOW MANY TIMES?
This one seems daunting, I will admit: a collection of unabashedly experimental tales based on mathematical formulae
INSIDE BLACK HOLLYWOOD
The WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART of the Blaxploitation film cycle, a thinly fictionalized expose of the filming of THE MACK (1973)
THE AGE OF DECAYED FUTURITY
A collection that proclaims itself “the best of” horror story maestro Mark Samuels
EXPLORING DARK FICTION #5: A PRIMER TO HAN SONG
A particularly fine entry in the Eric J. Guignard edited EXPLORING DARK FICTION anthology series
SEVEN DAYS
Hugely popular in his native land, Senecal deserves to be better known in ours—although SEVEN DAYS probably isn’t the best place to start
THE VAMPIRES OF ALFAMA
A most interesting and unprecedented addition to vampire lore from the French filmmaker and sometime novelist Pierre Kast
THE COFFIN THINGS
Michael Avallone (1924-99) was one of the most prolific hacks of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, and this is one of his better novels.
MANIAC
One of the sickest surprises of December 2020 was the release of this graphic novel, which breaks new ground in splatterific excess
COOL WORLD
In the lexicon of unmade, or rather ill-served, screenplays, COOL WORLD deserves a place of honor