Fiction
Here’s an interesting artifact I recently unearthed from my closet, a horror novel packaged as a tabloid newspaper, complete with (bogus) ads and photos. Printed in South Carolina by someone calling himself “Edward Hyde” (a pen name, obviously!), it’s a lurid, nasty, occasionally funny first person account of a cannibalistic serial killer named Edgar, told in the form of a lengthy letter he writes to a supermarket rag called “The Grapevine.” Here’s an interesting artifact I recently unearthed from my closet, a horror novel packaged as a tabloid newspaper, complete with (bogus) ads and photos. Printed in South Carolina by someone calling himself “Edward Hyde” (a pen name, obviously!), it’s a lurid, nasty, occasionally funny first person account of a cannibalistic serial killer named Edgar, told in the form of a lengthy letter he writes to a supermarket rag called “The Grapevine.”
Fiction, Video Clip
CONSUMED is the better-late-than-never debut novel 71-year-old David Cronenberg. It has a thoroughly unique and individual voice that falls somewhere between those of William Gibson and Don DeLillo in its concentration on technological minutiae and elegant perversity. It’s also fully in keeping with the obsessions and subject matter of Cronenberg’s films.
Fiction
A very strange little novel that’s obtained some minor popularity on the underground circuit. A good book? Not entirely. An interesting one? Most definitely!
Fiction
A surprise: a moldy oldie that never seemed too promising (especially since it was made into a crummy 1982 flick) but which turned out to be one of the finest genre novels I’ve read in some time. It’s graphic, imaginative and wildly unpredictable, not to mention pleasingly eccentric.
Fiction
Those of you not wanting to experience graphic depictions of violent psychosis are advised to steer clear. For everyone else, though, it comes highly recommended as an eye-opening peek into some of the darker regions of the human psyche.
Commentary
Examining one of horror media’s more pertinent issues: the differences between zombies and cannibals!
Film
The second feature by Hong Kong’s Tsui Hark was this Kung Fu infused, cannibal-themed comedy
Film
An ultra-low budget exercise in bodily mutation horror that should please cult movie fans…provided they’re in a very forgiving mood!
Film
A solid, if pretentious, 1971 psycho thriller from Spain
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This hugely controversial exploitation epic is easily the best of the Italian cannibal movies of the late seventies and early eighties. It’s also one of the most repellant, disturbing and morally repugnant films ever made
