SANTA’S TWIN
Koontz’s ambitions here weren’t exactly modest: the front cover flap promises a “contemporary masterpiece that is destined to take its place beside THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS as a perennial Yuletide favorite.”
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
Don’t get too excited about this book, as it’s not the proper novelization of the 1964 abomination SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS that I was hoping for
‘SALEM’S LOT
This wasn’t the first novel by Stephen King (it followed 1974’s CARRIE), but it was the book that really announced to the world what King was all about, and changed the horror genre forevermore
SAFE IN THE WOODS
That title is literal: this novel really does concern a safe located in the woods, specifically an underground enclosure in rural Arkansas that holds a massive amount of cash
AMERICAN PSYCHO (Book): Fifteen Years Later
If you were a reader back in 1991, as I was, then you probably recall, as I do, the furor that accompanied the publication of AMERICAN PSYCHO
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE HOMOPHOBES
Here it is, the long-in-coming sequel to Robert Devereaux’s Yuletide classic SANTA STEPS OUT (1998)
SANTA STEPS OUT
Here’s a Yuletide favorite I’m betting you won’t find on any traditional Christmas reading list: SANTA STEPS OUT by Robert Devereaux, a true “Fairy Tale for Grown-ups”
CHRISTMAS ON CRACK
This anti-Christmas anthology hails from the Bizarro crew, and delivers exactly what you might expect: a lot of XXX-rated, black humored weirdness, rendered in prose that’s on the level of a high school creative writing assignment
FLOATING DRAGON, THE TALISMAN, and IT — A Trilogy?
In the introduction to his novella THE GENERAL’S WIFE, Peter Straub states that his 1983 novel FLOATING DRAGON could form a “gigantic trilogy” with Stephen King’s IT and the King-Straub collaboration THE TALISMAN
THE PUMA BLUES
This avant-garde comic saga was for much of its existence the most elusive entry in the comic book renaissance of the 1980s