SWAY
The sixties get a fresh re-imagining in this lyrical and disquieting novel, which focuses on the final year of that decade, when the idealism that had fueled the counterculture over the previous nine years came to an abrupt end
THE SNAKE ORCHARDS
This relic from the “nasties” school of horror writing will always be important in my life due to the fact that back in the eighties it was one of the first grown-up horror novels I read. I was drawn, as I recall, by that eye-catching cover image, which remains quite striking
SON OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT
Horror epics were something of a novelty back in 1984. One of the rare examples of such was SON OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT by John Farris, a 500-plus page account of demonic possession with a twist
SON OF THE GUN
SON OF THE GUN is among the absolute finest of Jodorowsky’s comic work
SONGS FOR THE LOST
A most fascinating and evocative collection of hallucinatory fiction by an irrepressible talent
THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
Quite simply one of the most vivid and powerful tales of horrific suspense ever written
THE SPACE VAMPIRES
This interesting sci fi-tinged take on vampirism was made into the crappy movie LIFEFORCE. Don’t let that put you off, though, as the book is a careful and methodical intellectual thriller—though maybe a bit too methodical
SPANKY
A witty and enjoyable pop horror updating of FAUST which, despite Fowler’s claims that it represents a “departure and a new direction for me”, is very much in fitting with the rest of his work
SPAWN
Now here’s a premise: a mentally impaired hospital orderly buries several aborted fetuses in a field, where an electrical storm causes them to spring to life…and develop an insatiable appetite for human flesh!
STEPS
Jerzy Kosinski’s previous effort THE PAINTED BIRD is widely identified as a horror novel, and STEPS is nearly as horrific in its probing and unflinching study of moral ambiguity in the form of a dispassionate, and perhaps psychotic, individual