AFTER THE BOMB
A very eighties Cold War inflected post-nuke novel
MAN WITH FOUR LIVES
From 1935: good writing, good story, crummy ending
OLD DEATH
The posthumously published last novel by David Britton, arguably the most confrontational writer of our time
WHOREDAUGHTER
A depraved blast of deviant behavior and street-level reality from a protege of the late Donald Goines
EXTREME PREJUDICE
Undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s most intriguing “unmade” screenplays
HORROR LIBRARY VOLUME 8
Being familiar with much of editor Eric J. Guignard’s previous output, I had high expectations for this anthology. I wasn’t disappointed
THE CITY OF UNSPEAKABLE FEAR
A rare example of a novel by Belgium’s Jean Ray and an even rarer example of an English translation of Ray’s work
SPA
This unforgettably gross and surreal graphic novel hails from Sweden, and I say this 2023 English translation is an absolute necessity
RITUAL
There are some ingeniously nasty elements in this 1988 horrorfest, yet also some misconceived ones, all packed into a vastly overblown framework
DARK MATTER (Blake Crouch)
A fun book–quantum mechanics without pain!