TOPOR: STORIES AND DRAWINGS
An unheralded but important volume, this, as it was the first-ever English language collection of stories by France’s late Roland Topor, whose brand of macabre satire remains quite distinct
TALLEST STORIES
Rhys Hughes has a voice and whimsically horrific outlook as distinct as that of nearly any other contemporary writer. TALLEST STORIES is an exhaustive—and exhausting—collection of short pieces, each around 3-5 pages in length
THE SILVER WIND
There’s never been a time travel account like THE SILVER WIND. It’s ostensibly a collection of five stories (three of them previously published) that all have definite links
SINS OF THE SIRENS
The third release from Dark Arts Books, a publisher specializing in sampler anthologies of genre fiction. SINS OF THE SIRENS contains stories by four women authors
SENSORAMA
This terrifically oft-kilter anthology of bizarre fiction is based on the five senses and our relationship to them
SEIZE THE NIGHT
The aim of this 21-story collection is simple enough: to restore the vampire to its rightful place as a figure of horror
Insanity, Satan Worship, Mind Control and Mass Murder: The (Later) Films of Philip Yordan
In observance of the March 24, 2003 death of screenwriter Philip Yordan, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and elusive talents, let’s take a look at some of his films
CHRISTMAS ON CRACK
This anti-Christmas anthology hails from the Bizarro crew, and delivers exactly what you might expect: a lot of XXX-rated, black humored weirdness, rendered in prose that’s on the level of a high school creative writing assignment
RUE ST. DENIS
Nine psychologically based supernatural tales situated around the Montreal street Rue St. Denis. All the stories are strong, although I’m not exactly jumping-up-and-down enthusiastic over any of them
ROUGH BEASTS
As the title warns, the stories collected here are from the early days of Harlan Ellison’s career, specifically the late 1950s