There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
Jordan Krall is a signature author of the Bizarro fiction movement, and this book is a typical example of Bizarro lit, reveling as it does in easily digestible black humored weirdness
Here we have a highly literary tale of mass murder told from the killer’s point of view
This graphic novel collects the six issues of writer/illustrator Rolf F. Stark and co-writer Marlene Stevens’ early nineties underground comic RAIN
From Los Angeles based artist Tom Neely, a most unique and fascinating “painted novel” that operates on the same level as an especially weird David Lynch movie
This is, quite simply put, the finest horror novel of the 1980s, and one of the most accomplished first novels I’ve ever read
The genre-busting follow-up to Dark Arts Books’ 2006 horror-themed anthology CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER
One of those Euro-flavored oddities of which I can’t seem to get enough
A stunning exercise in subconscious dementia that preceded Kafka and the surrealists by nearly two decades