RED RANGE

This graphic novel, initially published in 1999, would appear to be the wild card among Joe Lansdale’s comic work

OLYMPUS

This is kinda fun, a whiz-bang graphic novel about a bunch of goofball college students on a research project in the Aegean Sea.

NIGHT OF THE CRABS

I can’t imagine how anyone could not get a kick out of this novel’s premise of giant flesh-eating crabs rampaging through a British seaside community.

JAWS (Novel)

JAWS, one of the most iconic bestsellers of its time, was the debut novel of Peter Benchley.

THE ISLAND (Peter Benchley)

There’s a reason this novel (and the 1981 movie adapted from it) never attained the iconic status of JAWS, or even that of Benchley’s THE DEEP, but THE ISLAND is an undeniable page turner.

HELL HOUND

Now that I’ve finally managed to excavate a copy I can understand, at least partially, why HELL HOUND by Ken Greenhall has been so widely ignored.

GRIZZLY

The surprise, then, is how well-written this novel is, with admirably clutter-free descriptions, a semi-successful attempt at three-dimensional characterizations, and convincing descriptions of the psyche of the title character, a mutant grizzly bear.