THE INVERTED WORLD
One of the SF field’s most provocative and enduring concepts is contained in THE INVERTED WORLD by the late Christopher Priest
CLUE
A novelization by Michael McDowell that gives CLUE (1985) far more class than it deserves
GILDED NEEDLES
A scrupulously researched, fitfully horrific depiction of New York City in the late 19th Century.
FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE
The most notorious of Clive Barker’s pre-BOOKS OF BLOOD plays
WHITE SPAWN
A novella-length take on the maestro’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth,” WHITE SPAWN offers most everything one could want in a neo-Lovecraftian account
NAKED IN HER COFFIN
Necrophilia, voodoo and zombies in a smut novel that, I’m afraid, isn’t very good at all
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
The basis for BLADE RUNNER (1982), and one of Dick’s most famous novels
ORF
In which late 1960s America was given a most fitting epitaph by the late upscale smut outfit Essex House and its top author David Meltzer
ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN
The magnum opus of France’s Philippe Caza, a 528 page graphic novel whose inception spanned the years 1989 to 2008
BRINGING IN THE CREEPS
Pop culture infused horror by an author who can be said to have cornered this particular field