NIGHTBREED
The second, and most ambitious, of Clive Barker’s self-directed features
RAWHEAD REX
Not a good movie, although it is a fun one
FACES OF FEAR
This is perhaps the key nonfiction text of the Horror Boom of the 1970s and 80s
BARLOWE’S INFERNO
A vision of Hell that in originality, ingenuity and inspiration rivals the classics
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
DEATH MAKES A HOLIDAY: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
The second of David J. Skal’s “Cultural Histories.” The first was 1993’s THE MONSTER SHOW, which took a rambling yet thoroughly enjoyable look at horror media
TORTURED SOULS
A McFarlane Toy line doesn’t exactly sound like a promising beginning for a novelette by Clive Barker, but what Barker turned out here is one of his most memorable books in some time
2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…
PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF ’70s AND ’80s HORROR FICTION
Now here’s a subject I know a bit about: paperback horror novels of the so-called “horror boom” of the 1970s and 80s