THE RESURRECTIONIST
A wonderfully evocative bit of elegant grotesquerie that’s unique in every aspect
REGISTRY OF DEATH
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
RED STAINS
If nothing else, this gross-out anthology definitely lives up to its billing. It contains (as the back cover proclaims) “Tales of the Darkest Biological Extremes and the Psycho-Sexual Imagination”
RED (Book)
This is allegedly one of the nicer novels by the great Jack Ketchum, but I’m not so sure
THE REAL THING
For an adults-only novel that actually lives up to its billing check out THE REAL THING by the late William Carney, an elegantly crafted account of revenge and psychosis among gay leathermen
RAW PAIN MAX
This novel represents all we’re not supposed to like about the splatterpunk movement: it’s trashy, adrenaline-fueled, misogynistic and ultimately pointless
THE RAPIST
Here we have a genuine rarity: a truly original entry in a rather hackneyed subgenre. THE RAPIST is so unique, in fact, that I’m finding it difficult to adequately describe
RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
According to William Gibson, “If you dropped the characters from NEUROMANCER into Jack Womack’s Manhattan, they’d fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns.” That, I suspect, is particularly true of RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
RAIN
This graphic novel collects the six issues of writer/illustrator Rolf F. Stark and co-writer Marlene Stevens’ early nineties underground comic RAIN
WRONGFUL DEATHS
This “documentary novel” tells the tragic story of the untimely deaths of novelist William Wharton’s daughter and stepson, and Wharton’s subsequent fight for justice