AUTOMATIC SAFE DOG
In this novel, the first by English writer/musician Jet McDonald, we’re introduced to the burgeoning industry of Pet Furnishing.
THE ANUBIS GATES
As with all the Tim Powers novels I’ve read, THE ANUBIS GATES is a difficult book to summarize. At its simplest it’s about Brendan Doyle, an American professor thrust back in time to England of 1810.
AN EXCHANGE OF SOULS
A novel that’s best known today as an alleged inspiration on H.P. Lovecraft’s “Thing on the Doorstep,” AN EXCHANGE OF SOULS also anticipates Michael Blumlein’s horrific gender-swap classic X,Y in its account of a mad doctor who becomes trapped in his fiancée’s body after a soul-switching experiment goes wrong.
THE ALTERNATIVE
This British novel is packaged like one of the innumerable horror potboilers that debuted in the early 1970s (complete with an imposing front cover reference to ROSEMARY’S BABY), but it’s actually a far more thoughtful and intellectual work.
The Many Faces of THE FACE THAT MUST DIE
Ramsey Campbell’s THE FACE THAT MUST DIE is one of the most powerful serial killer novels ever written.
Ken Russell Has Died
The visionary and prolific British filmmaker Ken Russell, who left us on November 27, 2011, remains an enigma.
TV Flashback: NEVERWHERE
NEVERWHERE was a BBC miniseries, originally broadcast in the Fall of ‘96
BLOODY WAR
Reading this quintessentially British apocalyptic nightmare, two things immediately became apparent: 1). The English have the market cornered on dystopian narratives, and 2). In recent years such fiction has grown extremely wimpy
CENTURION
This bloody historical epic, the most ambitious film made by the British horrormeister Neil Marshall, is too shallow and ham-fisted for its own good
WITCHFINDER GENERAL
This 1968 gut-wrencher was the final film of Britain’s late Michael Reeves, and one of the highlights of 1960s British horror cinema