This is my favorite novel by the late Hubert Selby Jr., who’s best known for LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. THE DEMON occupies a unique place in Selby’s oeuvre, being (I think) his most interesting book but also his most problematic.
There’s never been another novel like this one, and that includes those of its author, the brilliant James Graham Ballard. CRASH was adapted from a short piece that initially appeared in Ballard’s ATROCITY EXHIBITION (1969).
Joe Egan is a desperate man on the run from a mysterious blonde woman who is in fact the Angel of Death.
The notorious Donatien Alphonse Francois, a.k.a. Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), is many things to many people
The video underground of the early 1990s produced its share of groundbreaking horror films.
France’s Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a veritable genius of perverse and surreal literature
The genesis of the following piece occurred upon seeing PREDATOR for the first time. That was back in 1987, and I, naïve though I was back then, couldn’t help but flash back to two then-recent hits: RAMBO from 1985 and the following year’s ALIENS
If you know of the late Michael Blodgett (1939-2007) it’s most likely as a beefcake actor, yet in my view Blodgett’s most enduring work was done in the three unjustly forgotten novels he published in the late seventies and early eighties
What twenty selections have in common is that, simply, all are well worth your time to read and/or track down
An interesting item from director Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi, who seems to have at last come into his own