SANTA STEPS OUT
Here’s a Yuletide favorite I’m betting you won’t find on any traditional Christmas reading list: SANTA STEPS OUT by Robert Devereaux, a true “Fairy Tale for Grown-ups”
PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN HIS CHATEAU
A profoundly vile piece of work that I’ve long wanted to read. L’ANGLAIS DECRIT DANS LE CHATEAU FERME was initially published in Paris (under the pseudonym Pierre Morion) back in 1953, and then banned for over 25 years
A PERFECTLY NATURAL ACT
THE INVISIBLE MAN gets a thoroughly twisted updating in this forgotten relic from the early 1970s, when major publishers were actually willing to take on a perverse oddity like A PERFECTLY NATURAL ACT
RIPPLE
A graphic novel that may not be horrific enough for my readers, yet will almost certainly be too freaky and aberrant for the mainstream
RED STAINS
If nothing else, this gross-out anthology definitely lives up to its billing. It contains (as the back cover proclaims) “Tales of the Darkest Biological Extremes and the Psycho-Sexual Imagination”
THE REAL THING
For an adults-only novel that actually lives up to its billing check out THE REAL THING by the late William Carney, an elegantly crafted account of revenge and psychosis among gay leathermen
A WOMAN RUN MAD
Yet another book whose title and packaging (at least in its mass market incarnation) are directly at odds with its content
ORGY OF THE BLOOD PARASITES
Those of you desiring subtlety and/or refinement take heed: you won’t find any such things here
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW
VOICE OF OUR SHADOW has been praised by Stephen King as a novel he wishes he’d written himself, but in truth the only person who could have penned this sexy, disquieting and delirious tale is the one and only Jonathan Carroll
VIOLENT SILENCE
This unpublished-in-the-US potboiler may be obscure, but it’s virtually unmatched for erotic verve and sheer perversity