Books You Should Be Reading
Many will disagree, but I say it’s a fact that my book reviews have in many cases helped inspire cults
NIGHT OF TEARS
NIGHT OF TEARS is actually a tepid and uneventful potboiler that attempts to blend three distinct subgenres–gothic romance, alien invasion and crime thriller–into a not-very-satisfying whole.
MOJU: THE BLIND BEAST (Novel)
I was predisposed to like this short novel, and like it I did—a lot.
MADAM SEX THIEF
Reading this delirious relic from the glory days of erotic fiction, it occurred to me that there exist very few fictional treatments of the horrors of castration. The only serious contenders I can think of are Jim Thompson’s THE NOTHING MAN and EAT THEM ALIVE by Pierce Nace, and MADAM SEX THIEF outdoes both in grossness and outrage.
LOVE SONG
LOVE SONG is part of the pornographic cycle penned by the famous sci-fi author Philip Jose Farmer, and easily the best of the bunch.
LITTLE ORPHAN VAMPIRES
What this perilously slim 82-page trifle lacks is the poetic charge and dark eroticism of Rollin’s best films.
JEANNE’S JOURNAL
Those lucky few who’ve read Arlette Ryvers’ translation of JEANNE’S JOURNAL all seem to exhibit similarly awe-struck reactions, and having finally gotten around to experiencing this pervy masterwork myself, I fully understand the adulation.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Book)
This iconic bestseller is perhaps the key vampire novel of our time.
HOUSE OF PAIN
It doesn’t exactly break new ground (naughty nuns are hardly a novelty in erotic fiction), and I’m not entirely sure the “classic” tag is appropriate, but HOUSE OF PAIN does nonetheless deserve credit for the very real sense of anguish that emanates from its pages.
THE GAS
The idea of a man-made drug causing people to lose their sexual inhibitions had been done before THE GAS saw print and after, but no other novel took the concept as far as Platt did.