DREAD
There are some good things in this gorier-than-average Clive Barker adaptation, but it’s a confused and mediocre movie overall
CUT! HORROR WRITERS ON HORROR FILM
Here we have a severely mixed bag of nonfiction pieces about horror film, all written by horror novelists
NEAR DARK
One of the great vampire movies, and in my view the best-ever film by director Kathryn Bigelow
H.R. GIGER’S NECRONOMICON
One of several large format hardcovers covering H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist whose paintings have irrevocably changed the course of fantastic art
The BOOKS OF BLOOD at 30
It was sometime in 1986 that a certain horror-obsessed pre-teen—me, to be exact—came across a paperback entitled VOLUME ONE OF CLIVE BARKER’S BOOKS OF BLOOD
2009: Bedlam in Print
To those who claim the horror story/novel is dead—or the horror novel is worn out, or fiction in general is dead, or whatever—I’ve got this to say: you haven’t been paying attention
2008: Bedlam in Print
Here it is: my third annual look back at the year’s literary output
2007: Bedlam in Print
2007 is over. A good year? For horror literature I’d say yes, it was
2006: Bedlam in Print
Welcome to the first installment of my year-end overview of the year in horror fiction
THE SCARLET GOSPELS
Now that THE SCARLET GOSPELS is finally here two things are immediately apparent: 1) at 361 pages it’s far from the 1,000-plus page masterpiece I’ve heard portended, and 2) it’s not exactly the “epic summation” of Barker’s work that was promised