Roland Topor in English
France’s Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a veritable genius of perverse and surreal literature
Illustrated Oddments
Q: What is an Illustrated Oddment? A: It’s a book that in its gorgeous strangeness and fascination deserves some ink on this site, even if I (for whatever reason) can’t really justify writing a full review
Graphic Novels: 20 Off-The-Beaten-Track Selections
What twenty selections have in common is that, simply, all are well worth your time to read and/or track down
All About THE THING
The saga of what is now commonly known as THE THING has a 70-plus year history that, not unlike the unstoppable shape-shifting “Thing” itself
On NIGHTMARE ALLEY
NIGHTMARE ALLEY by William Lindsay Gresham is one of the bleakest, most relentless American novels of all time
Joe Lansdale, Timothy Truman and JONAH HEX
Right now you likely know JONAH HEX as a very bad movie, and that’s a shame. What you should know HEX for are the three comic miniseries from Vertigo
2013: Bedlam in Print
Here we have the latest (admittedly quite belayed) installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s horror-minded publications
WE3
This short but undeniably resonant graphic novel, scripted by ARKHAM ASYLUM and KID ETERNITY’S demented Grant Morrison, is essentially a warped variant on THE PLAGUE DOGS
ZOMBIE
This graphic novel adaptation of Lucio Fulci’s iconic 1979 film ZOMBIE follows THE BEYOND, a previous graphic novel rendering of a Fulci classic by scripter Stephen Romano—and the results, thankfully, are far stronger
2012: Bedlam in Print
Publishing-wise 2012 contained more than its share of good, and sometimes even great, books