Japan’s Shinya Tsukamoto is one of the world’s most vital living filmmakers, and this exhaustive study of his life and films is an essential reference, ideal both for Tsukamoto fanatics like myself and those new to the filmmaker’s work
In which England’s incomparable literary genius J.G. Ballard, the esteemed “Dark Prophet of the 20th Century,” gets the John Baxter treatment, meaning a less-than-flattering biographical portrait
This study of the notorious torture-murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens initially appeared within a year of the crime, having been compiled from articles written about the case by an Indianapolis Star reporter
For true film nerds this collection is a must, as it is for just about anyone with an interest in Quentin Tarantino, Crispin Glover, DEATH GAME, GREMLINS, the novels of David Goodis and Charles Willeford and the LONE WOLF AND CUB films
This large format hardcover is David J. Skal’s latest vampire-themed tome, and doesn’t contain much info that his other books didn’t already cover
A spirited 100-page look at the life and fiction of the late Rex Miller, one of the most distinctive horror/mystery specialists of the eighties and nineties
I’ll give this volume, in which author David Konow attempts to chronicle the entire 100-plus year history of horror cinema, points for ambition
A book published in 1896 that appears to have been a dull-as-dirt educational treatise (on the capture and disposal of plague-carrying rodents), twisted by the demented Crispin Glover into an exercise in surreal distortion
In my view this is one of the very few essential movie making-of books, seeing as how it tells the story of one of the standout films of the 1970s: Ken Russell’s delirious 1971 masterpiece THE DEVILS
This “Brief Guide, for Beginners, to the How’s and Why’s of Horror” was written by T.E.D. Klein, horror author extraordinaire (of THE CEREMONIES and DARK GODS) and former editor of The Twilight Zone magazine