Justifiably well known though the late Robert E. Howard is for his heroic fantasy tales (of Conan, Kull and other larger-than-life heroes), few people know that Howard also left behind a handful of extremely accomplished horror stories
It’s never easy topping a success. In the case of German wunderkind Patrick Suskind, whose 1985 debut PERFUME was an international bestseller and one of the absolute finest novels of the decade, he didn’t even try
Jordan Krall is a signature author of the Bizarro fiction movement, and this book is a typical example of Bizarro lit, reveling as it does in easily digestible black humored weirdness
Here we one of the rarest and most sought-after children’s books of the 1950s
A novel the indefatigable Dean Koontz now calls “one of the ten biggest mistakes of my life.” It’s one of his few balls-out horror fests, and the book, Koontz says, that got him typed as a horror writer, a label he never wanted
Quite simply put, this is one of the great horror novels of our time, as well as an unsurpassed example of historical speculation
THE INVISIBLE MAN gets a thoroughly twisted updating in this forgotten relic from the early 1970s, when major publishers were actually willing to take on a perverse oddity like A PERFECTLY NATURAL ACT
Here we have a highly literary tale of mass murder told from the killer’s point of view
This novel, the first in Ira Grant’s “Parasitology” trilogy, boasts a riveting Cronenbergian premise and is a definite page-turner (and has a very striking cover design)
A pitiless vision of Hell on Earth, manga style!