RED STAINS

If nothing else, this gross-out anthology definitely lives up to its billing. It contains (as the back cover proclaims) “Tales of the Darkest Biological Extremes and the Psycho-Sexual Imagination”

RAT-CATCHING

A book published in 1896 that appears to have been a dull-as-dirt educational treatise (on the capture and disposal of plague-carrying rodents), twisted by the demented Crispin Glover into an exercise in surreal distortion