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James Williamson: 1959-2026

This week we bid farewell to one of the most mercurial, enigmatic, and questionable author-publishers in recent history

A wildly experimental, albeit extremely bloody and erotic, art film that was quite popular with mainstream audiences in France

Necrophilia, voodoo and zombies in a smut novel that, I’m afraid, isn’t very good at all

In which late 1960s America was given a most fitting epitaph by the late upscale smut outfit Essex House and its top author David Meltzer

Supposedly a history of sex in science fiction, but actually a history of sex in science fiction art

The books of 2025, ranked by moi

Looking back over the film releases of 2025

A product of the upscale smut outfit Brandon House that reads like a watered-down template for Charles Platt’s THE GAS

Cronenberg’s latest, a so-so excercise in brooding despair

From Ed Wood, a charmingly archaic sexploitation outrage that was apparently conceived as a loose sequel to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE