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CRY FOR ME, BILLY

One of the more obscure entries in the revisionist western craze of the 1970s, this quasi-art film (given new life by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary) hails from 1972

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ANIARA

The one and only science fiction epic poem, originally published in Swedish and reissued in English by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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LUCIO FULCI’S THE GATES OF HELL

I’ve been interested in this comic series, adapted from Lucio Fulci’s anti-classic CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, ever since first hearing about it in the late nineties

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HASHISH

Germany’s premiere example of “drug writing,” 1902’s HASHISH by Oscar A.H. Schmitz appears here in its first ever English translation

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EDITH’S DIARY

A late period novel by the great Patricia Highsmith that showcases its author’s past-her-prime pedigree all too well

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A Dirge for Some Dead Dot-Coms

I’ve seen countless horror websites come and go, most of which will not be missed by me or probably anyone else. Below you’ll find listings for some departed horror-themed sites that I feel were worthy

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The BRAIN PLANT Tetralogy

This unjustly forgotten product of the late-1960’s porno underground, consisting of the novels LOVELY, HEALER, OUT and GLUE FACTORY (all from 1969), is among the most complex and ambitious examples of pornographic literature — or, if you prefer fuckbooks — ever written.

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Claude Seignolle in English

Back in 1983 the late Lawrence Durrell predicted that the French horror writer Claude Seignolle “will draw a large audience in the United States and that his place in literature eventually will be as assured as Ambrose Bierce’s is today.”

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