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
DANILOV THE VIOLINIST
A singularly bizarre supernatural fantasy from the Soviet Union
POMEGRANATE AND THE DEVOURING INSECTS
Two previously untranslated stories by Edogawa Ranpo, Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe, make up this 84 page e-text
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