2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
FILME DEMÊNCIA
A weird Faust movie in the grand tradition of weird Faust movies
SNAIL
I don’t know what kind of drugs Richard Miller was on when he wrote this novel, but I want some
TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL
The debut feature of Canada’s Guy Maddin, and a potent signifier of what was to come
THE CASE OF THE TWO STRANGE LADIES
A full blast of dementia from Harry Stephen Keeler involving a shocking double murder, multi-racial family ties and transposed heads
Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
MR. TURTLE
A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
IMAGES
A gaudily designed coffee table art book by the incomparable David Lynch
THE HOUSE THAT GROANED
A graphic novel that’s plenty weird, with a narrative that leans rather heavily into the perverse and psychosexual