SINS OF THE SIRENS
The third release from Dark Arts Books, a publisher specializing in sampler anthologies of genre fiction. SINS OF THE SIRENS contains stories by four women authors
THE SPACE VAMPIRES
This interesting sci fi-tinged take on vampirism was made into the crappy movie LIFEFORCE. Don’t let that put you off, though, as the book is a careful and methodical intellectual thriller—though maybe a bit too methodical
THE STORY OF NOICHI THE BLIND
Here’s something unique: a novella, penned by veteran horror scribe Chet Williamson, written in the style of the late Lafcadio Hearn
STORY OF THE EYE
Those of you who read this short novel as the “erotic classic” it’s commonly classified as may be disappointed, if not totally bewildered
SWEET EVIL
Charles Platt described his conception of SWEET EVIL thusly: “Having exorcised most of my sexual inhibitions by writing erotica, I decided to plumb the depths of my ambivalence toward violence”
SEDUCTIONS
By RAY GARTON (Pinnacle; 1984)
This was the first novel by Ray Garton, and a book that greatly upset one of its first readers, the late Robert Bloch–who allegedly informed the young Garton that “you’re unwell”
SATYR
There are some good things here, but they’re overshadowed by the not-so-good stuff
DRACULA in Pictures
Various graphic novels about Dracula have gained popularity of late
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.