RESUME WITH MONSTERS
Comedic horror about a working drudge and his encounters with Lovecraft’s monsters, who are looking to take over the world, starting with the copy shop where he works—yes, RESUME WITH MONSTERS is that kind of book
RENE’S FLESH
A bizarre, Kafka-esque parable of a young man’s adverse relationship to his own flesh
BOMBYX
Ultra-paranoid psychological horror from Richard Christian—or R.C.—Matheson and Mick Garris
BLACK COCKTAIL
A typically odd and unpredictable contemporary fantasy by the inimitable Jonathan Carroll, a 76-page novella about all sorts of things
EPOCH: A POETIC PSY-PHI SAGA
This “Poetic Psy-Phi Saga” does the famed epic science fiction poem ANIARA one better, offering an even more epic example of SF poetry
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