MIDWINTERBLOOD
It’s really too bad about this book, a young adult novel with a complexity and ambition you don’t usually find in such fare, but which ultimately fails to reach its full potential.
MIDNIGHT’S LAIR
MIDNIGHT’S LAIR isn’t my favorite novel by the late Richard Laymon, but it is compact, fast moving and imaginative in the best Laymon tradition.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
The RING inspired narrative could admittedly be a bit stronger–and scarier–overall, but the novel is never less than readable and inviting, driven by Hooper’s hard-bitten, quintessentially Texan worldview.
MIDNIGHT
A pretty standard Dean Koontz programmer with all the elements that marked his eighties-era novels: an absurdly virtuous hero, a sappy romance, a happy ending and a highly preachy, self-righteous air.
METROPHILIAS
A subtly deranged, obliquely beautiful oddity. The thirty six stories in this short and pointed compendium of urban neurosis span the globe and the centuries, with each set in and named after a different city.
THE METAMORPHOSIS
You likely know the story of this German novella whether you’ve actually read it or not: the overworked, anxiety-prone Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle (not a cockroach as is commonly claimed).
MERKABAH RIDER: TALES OF A HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
This is the first of Edward M. Erdelac’s MERKABAH RIDER series of weird westerns.
MEFISTO IN ONYX
Think SCANNERS crossed with SILENCE OF THE LAMBS as related by Jim Thompson and you’ll have the gist of this weird and wonderful novella by Harlan Ellison.
MEMORIA
A provocative updating of the mad scientist subgenre of yore (see DONOVAN’S BRAIN, PROFESSOR DOWELL’S HEAD, etc.), the independently published MEMORIA encapsulates both the pros and cons of “underground” horror.
THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY & OTHER STORIES
Tim Burton’s unique imagination isn’t always optimized onscreen, but his distinctive vision definitely shines through in this collection of macabre poetry and drawings.