MYTHAGO WOOD

The first of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood saga, about a mythologically endowed British woodland

RAPTOR RED

The 1990s dinosaur craze found a most unexpected apotheosis in this Cretaceous Period set novel told from the point of view of a raptor

DEUS IRAE

In science fiction terms this book marked a true dream collaboration, it being the first and only novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny

SPARES

From the UK’s Michael Marshall Smith, a diusturbing sci fi dystopia that was supposed to be adapted for film by Dreamworks, but wasn’t

LYCHEE LIGHT CLUB

A manga one-shot involving perversion and psychosis amid a group of middle schoolers. It’s much better than you might expect.

LOST SOULS

A happy birthday to the horror icon Poppy Z. Brite, whose debut novel this was

SEXUALIS ’95

A very accurate (not!) portrayal of the year 1995 was offered up in this novel, one of two available English translations by Belgium’s Jacques Sternberg

THE COMMITTED MEN

The apocalypse-themed first novel by England’s enormously gifted M. John Harrison, who in more recent years has all-but disowned it

DIONYSOS SPEED

A visionary concoction that can be categorized as surrealist poetry or avant-garde science fiction