2023: Bedlam in Print
Looking back over last year’s books!
2020: Bedlam in Print
Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview
POMEGRANATE AND THE DEVOURING INSECTS
Two previously untranslated stories by Edogawa Ranpo, Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe, make up this 84 page e-text
THE SPIDER MAN
Another late-in-coming translation of the work of Edogawa Ranpo, a novel that’s brainy and grotesque in equal measure, and never less than fully absorbing
The 2010s
Apologies for the brutal honesty, but regarding the 2010s I have this to say: What a lousy decade for entertainment!
1994: The Year in Bedlam
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!
MOJU: THE BLIND BEAST (Novel)
I was predisposed to like this short novel, and like it I did—a lot.
THE MYSTERY OF RAMPO
A strange and often puzzling fantasy about the late Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965), Japan’s foremost horror/mystery scribe
BLIND BEAST VS. KILLER DWARF
The unfortunate final feature of Japan’s Teruo Ishii. A shot on video no-budgeter, it’s an uninspired and amateurish product not befitting one of Japan’s most prominent cult auteurs
THE BLIND BEAST (Film)
A wildly fetishistic, claustrophobic Japanese production made in 1968, THE BLIND BEAST (a.k.a. MOJU) is profoundly bizarre