RED RANGE
This graphic novel, initially published in 1999, would appear to be the wild card among Joe Lansdale’s comic work
LAST CALL
Here’s a novel that adequately displays both the strengths and weaknesses of Tim Powers’s unique brand of fantasy.
THE ARCHITECT OF RUINS
A mind-boggler par excellence, courtesy of Dedalus, who can always be counted on to dig up fascinating Euro-obscurities
RAIN
An unabashed throwback to the type of high-class, speculatively-charged porn lit that flourished in the late 1960s and early 70s
FADE-OUT
The “Most Compelling Novel of the Unknown Ever Written?” I’m not sure about that…
ELLE
Here we have what I’d argue is the sole major benefit of the film ELLE: the long-delayed English translation of the novel that inspired it
THE TIGHTER IT GETS
Robert Moore was a prolific contributor to the famed smut book outfit Olympia Press and its offshoot Ophelia, under whose imprint the present book appeared
AELITA
It’s a fact that science fiction dates faster and more dramatically than any other genre, especially when it hails from early-1920s Russia, as is the case with AELITA by Alexei Tolstoy
CREEPSHOW The Graphic Novel
A most welcome reprinting of what until 2017 was one of Stephen King’s scarcest books
JOHN DOLLAR
Although I’m sure its author and publisher would be loath to admit it, this historical reverie is very much a horror novel