THE MAGIC TOYSHOP
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP evinces all the qualities that defines Angela Carter’s fiction, namely a fair amount—though not nearly enough in this case—of perverse invention
LITTLE HEAVEN
Here Nick Cutter, of the well-received horror thrillers THE TROOP and THE DEEP, tries his hand at a genre epic of the type popularized by Stephen King and Robert McCammon, with mixed results
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Quite popular among the literati and the winner of at least one prestigious award, it’s a relentlessly contemplative and intellectual treatment of material that will seem quite familiar to most horror fans
THE JUDAS FISH
The late Kenneth Cook was never more inspired than has was in this novel
JEFFERY DAHMER: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF A SERIAL KILLER
This was perhaps the most infamous underground comic of the nineties
JOHN SKIPP & CRAIG SPECTOR’S MALFORMED
An intriguing flashback to the indie comic scene of the 1990s, courtesy of the decade’s premiere splatterpunk duo John Skipp and Craig Spector
MAD MAX (Book)
It’s been said that George Miller was so impressed with this novelization of MAD MAX that he hired its writer to co-script THE ROAD WARRIOR
BRANCHES
Mitch Cullin is best known for providing the source novel for Terry Gilliam’s “PSYCHO-meets-DAYS OF HEAVEN” reverie TIDELAND, and this earlier Cullin text is just as twisted
ROUGH BEAST
Here’s an ambitious horror novel that appeared after the horror boom of the 1970s and 80s had been officially put to rest
HEX
One of the most unexpected surprises of 2016 was this altogether odd and unpredictable horror thriller from the Netherlands