TRIBESMEN

An enjoyable gore-filled tribute to the cannibal film cycle of the 1970s and 80s

SEVEN BRAINS

It’s been said the ultimate compliment you can give a horror story is it makes you question its author’s sanity. I’ll confess that was the case with this deeply sick novella, meaning it’s a success

PLAY LITTLE VICTIMS

In tried-and-true ANIMAL FARM fashion, this provocative novella relates a metaphoric fable of the animal world with more than a hint of the satiric nastiness of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”

THE WOODS ARE DARK

This is the “restored and uncut” version of THE WOODS ARE DARK, the second novel by the late Richard Laymon, and the one he maintained destroyed his career in the U.S.

THE WOMAN

Any book by the incomparable Jack Ketchum is worth reading—even this one, which is essentially a novelization of the 2011 film of the same name

THE VOYAGE OF THE SHORT SERPENT

A short novel that received quite a bit of attention in its native France, winning a prestigious literary award and all sorts of critical adulation. I think all the praise is overblown, given that this novel, in translated English form, is frankly pretty minor