THE ORPHEUS PROCESS

Another worthwhile dispatch from the Dell Abyss line of horror paperbacks that flourished in the early 1990s

ANTHONY SHRIEK

Anyone wondering why Dell’s fabled Abyss horror line, which promised “Horror unlike anything you’ve ever read before,” didn’t last beyond the early nineties need only read this, one of Abyss’ signature entries. ANTHONY SHRIEK isn’t a bad novel, just a severely bloated and self-indulgent one.

Four Essential Books by Michael Blumlein

Michael Blumlein, a San Francisco-based doctor, is one of the most distinctive horror/sci fi writers on the scene, as evinced by three absolutely stunning novels and an equally dazzling short story collection