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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
FANGS
The Egyptian ROCKY HORROR!
HALLOWEEN (2018)
In this 2018 film Hollywood’s war on originality reached new heights
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL MOUSE
Canada’s Nelvana Animation really knew how to put on a holiday special
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
An exhaustive documentary that purports to explore the roots and manifestations of “Folk Horror” in film
LOVE ME DEADLY
Necrophilia meets mass murder in one of the sickest early-seventies exploiters
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Book)
A novelization–although a more accurate description would be a novel based on themes from THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
SKORPIO
A nifty chunk of no-nonsense horror by a longtime comic book scribe. SKORPIO is NEXUS and BADGER creator Mike Baron’s third horror novel, and showcases a real gift for evocative storytelling.
Freak Museum
Mega List of Everything By R.R. Ryan (Ramble House; 1938/2013) One of two ultra-obscure 1938 novels by England’s R.R. Ryan (actually Denice Jeanette Bradley-Ryan) republished in 2013. The other was THE SUBJUGATED BEAST, which I feel is the stronger of the two. It has...
The Subjugated Beast
Mega List of Everything By R.R. Ryan (Ramble House; 1938/2013) R.R. Ryan is a forgotten master of the macabre. The author of several British publications that appeared in the 1930s and 40s (precious few copies of which survive), Ryan only truly rose to prominence in...
OPEN SEASON
Here’s a perfect case study in how a bad movie adaptation can tarnish the reputation of a really good book.
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Chas Balun and “Piece O’ Mind”
You most likely knew the late Chas Balun as the irrepressible voice of Deep Red magazine and the creator of the Gore Score, but his freelance work was equally noteworthy
Roland Topor in English
France’s Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a veritable genius of perverse and surreal literature
2015: A Look Back in Bedlam
What follows is my latest “Look Back in Horror” over the noteworthy horror movie/book related events of the past year, as well as some of my favorite literary and cinematic discoveries and noteworthy deaths.
2015: The Year in Bedlam
Here we have the latest installment of my year end horror movie round-up, in which the best and worst of 2015’s horror cinema are ranked (according to me, anyway).
2015: Bedlam in Print
As always, 2015 was a good year for readers–provided they knew where to look. While there were a number of worthwhile books put out by the big publishing houses, the majority of the really good stuff, in my view, came from the so-called small presses like Pushkin, Centipede, Eibonvale, Vertical and others.