ORGY OF THE DEAD
A heretofore impossible-to-find Ed Wood novel that has the same mind-roasting charge as his “best” movies
ORGY OF THE BLOOD PARASITES
Those of you desiring subtlety and/or refinement take heed: you won’t find any such things here
THE VOYAGE OF THE SHORT SERPENT
A short novel that received quite a bit of attention in its native France, winning a prestigious literary award and all sorts of critical adulation. I think all the praise is overblown, given that this novel, in translated English form, is frankly pretty minor
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW has been praised by Stephen King as a novel he wishes he’d written himself, but in truth the only person who could have penned this sexy, disquieting and delirious tale is the one and only Jonathan Carroll
VIOLENT SILENCE
This unpublished-in-the-US potboiler may be obscure, but it’s virtually unmatched for erotic verve and sheer perversity
VIOLATION
The second or third novel by one of the movies’ foremost wild men, who was never in more outrageous form
THE VAMPIRE’S CHRISTMAS
A confession: I’ve long since had my fill of vampires. That probably explains why this graphic novel, exploring the tortured existence of a vampire expat, didn’t do much for me
VAMPIRE JUNCTION
One of the key vampire tomes of the eighties, VAMPIRE JUNCTION was the premiere excursion in horror fiction by the famed science fiction scribe Somtow Sucharitkul, a.k.a. S.P. Somtow
VALHALLA
Newton Thornburg really knows how to write a novel, a fact he proved with 1976’s CUTTER AND BONE, and again in VALHALLA, possibly the most (undeservedly) obscure of all his books
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Book)
A real curiosity: a surrealist novel masquerading as a gothic thriller that never entirely satisfies as either. Rather, it’s a rare book that exists in its own indefinable category