FREAK OUT
No budget British comedy-horror from 2005. It’s utterly ludicrous, trashy and obnoxious—and also pretty damn funny!
THE VANISHMENT
Fans of England’s Jonathan Aycliffe (a.k.a. Daniel Easterman) rate this 1994 novel among his finest work. That may well be true, but I’m not entirely sold on THE VANISHMENT
INTO THE UNKNOWN: THE FANTASTIC LIFE OF NIGEL KNEALE
England’s Thomas Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) was and is one of the guiding lights of modern horror, and this terrific biography is long overdue
INSIDE THE WICKER MAN
For anyone with even a passing interest in the 1973 English horror classic THE WICKER MAN this book is a must, being an unusually erudite and well written account of the film’s making and reception
THE STRANGE GENIUS OF DAVID LINDSAY
This slim three author compilation was the first-ever study of the English fantasist David Lindsay, author of the immortal VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, THE HAUNTED WOMAN and several other eccentric novels
HORROR PANEGYRIC
A well-written overview of the Savoy published Lord Horror novels, HORROR PANEGYRIC deserves credit simply for the fact that it’s currently the only existing book-lengthy study of these important works
NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND
I’ll give this undead romance a verdict of Okay. The film is appealingly offbeat, but as romance it’s pretty inert and only sporadically effective as horror
2012: Bedlam in Print
Publishing-wise 2012 contained more than its share of good, and sometimes even great, books
2010: Bedlam in Print
2010? It was a mediocre year for movies but for books it was a little better
2002: The Year in Bedlam
Once again the year is over and it’s time for my annual look back at the year in horror