ESCHER’S LOOPS
I haven’t read enough of Serbia’s Zoran Zivkovic to properly judge this novel’s place in his lexicon, but I strongly doubt he’ll ever write a richer or more confounding novel.
ESCAPE FROM HELL (Book)
That book remains an invigorating jaunt through Dante’s Inferno, with the deceased science fiction writer Allen Carpenter traversing the nine circles of Hell.
ENEMY OF THE GOOD: POSTSCRIPTS 19
The contents are varied enough in style, quality and subject matter that it’s difficult to render any sort of overall verdict–to some of you I’m sure that fact will be off-putting, while others will take it as a strong recommendation.
ENEMY FORCE
Now, however, a full 110 years later, John Antoine Nau’s ENEMY FORCE seems quite dull and uninvolving. The fault could be with the English translation–or, as the cover proclaims, “adaptation”–by Michael Shreve, who often seems puzzled by the text (
Elsewhere
For the most part ELSEWHERE is a charming, low-key haunted house tale that’s more interesting than scary. It certainly contains its share of quintessentially Blatty-esque wisecracks.
ELEVEN TWENTY-TWO SIXTY-THREE (11/22/63)
A surprise: I admittedly had little hope for this Stephen King 842-page time travel opus, yet it turns out to be King’s finest novel in decades.
ELEKTRA ASSASSIN
The Frank Miller scripted, Bill Sienkiewicz illustrated ELEKTRA ASSASSIN, from Marvel’s adult-oriented offshoot Epic Comics, was a vital yet largely unheralded entry in the comics renaissance of the 1980s.
EL DIABLO
This is a 4-issue comic series, in other words, and a violent, horrific and often downright strange one.
EDDY DECO’S LAST CAPER
As displayed in his film and book reviews for The Twilight Zone and Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines, along with a handful of novels and short stories, Wilson’s writing is quite distinct in its own right, but also extremely uneven.
EAT THEM ALIVE
Who the Hell is Pierce Nace? Based on the appropriately titled EAT THEM ALIVE, Nace’s only book, this author is evidently a demented fuck with a penchant for over-the-top gore and misogynistic sleaze.