TWINS
You probably know this novel as the inspiration for David Cronenberg’s DEAD RINGERS (1988), which was a rare instance of a film adaptation surpassing its source novel
DIONYSUS: THE ULTIMATE EXPERIMENT
This book outlines a little remarked-upon but quite pertinent facet of space travel: sex in zero gravity
THE ADAM EXPERIMENT
This one certainly sounds good, being, apparently, a “near-future thriller with the terror of ALIEN, the horror of ROSEMARY’S BABY, the suspense of COMA!”
THE DARK DOMAIN
Here’s an excellent single author anthology from the UK’s Dedalus Books, who can always be counted on to unearth vital and interesting European authors
YOUNG WITCHES BOOK TWO: LONDON BABYLON
This is a sequel to the adults-only comic saga YOUNG WITCHES by Francisco Solano and Barriero, but LONDON BABYLON deserves to be read as a standalone
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE (1980)
A long neglected film that simply MUST be rediscovered, this is John Ford’s notorious Jacobean drama ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, adapted for the BBC by director Roland Joffé
GROPIE
Yet another depraved dispatch from the late Essex House
LABYRINTH OF FLOWER GARDEN
This erotic noir from 1988 is a female-centered, visually rapturous thriller