2020 in Review: Books Worth Reading
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
PIG TALES
The cover and description make this novel seem like a light-hearted satire, which it isn’t
SURVIVOR TYPE
The 2012 film adaptation of Stephen King’s most outrageous story
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.
CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE
A double dose of early 1980s Italo-sploitation, blending an account of crazy Vietnam veterans on the loose with cannibal movie nastiness
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
TENDER IS THE FLESH
A must-read due to its concept: a future world in which human flesh is harvested for food
Blood Letters and Trashy Movies in the South Sea
On December 19, 1978 the so-called “Blood Letter from Nanhai” made its bow in the Taiwanese Central Daily News
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME