THE NAIL
Over-the-top gore is what this comic mini promises and delivers. If you’re looking for something beyond that you should probably pick something else.
Over-the-top gore is what this comic mini promises and delivers. If you’re looking for something beyond that you should probably pick something else.
After reading this newly revised “Director’s Cut” version, which contains a retrospective introduction by the author and several newly written footnotes, I fully understand the book’s popularity.
Jeffrey Thomas is one of the most original authors on the scene, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated MONSTROCITY is one of his key works.
Understand: this children’s novel, which won several prestigious awards and sports a wealth of orgasmic blurbs, isn’t a bad book, just an annoying one.
Here’s an illustrated Christmas tale we can all enjoy, an extended 44-page poem about a little boy terrorized by toothy monsters that emerge from his closet on Christmas Eve.
That title tells the story of this odd and troubling late seventies artifact, a somewhat experimental, psychologically based account of grief and madness.
I was predisposed to like this short novel, and like it I did—a lot.
Like many of Zivkovic’s other books it’s extremely short, but, also like much of Zivkovic’s fiction, contains enough richness and inspiration to fill several mainstream novels.
Content-wise it’s sold as “A relentless symphony of pleasantries and things unpleasant sketched with the inimitable style of a master’s hand.” I couldn’t have put it better myself!