TERATOLOGIST
Here’s a true match made in Hell: Edward Lee and Wrath James White, the current sultans of literary mayhem
SUPER FETUS
After TEENAGE TIMEBERWOLVES, this novella gets my vote for the sickest publication of 2009
SWAN LAKE
This story reportedly pissed off a lot of people when it was first published in an anthology. Even the author, in a newly written afterward, acknowledges readers may want “to kick his ass for writing this story”
CHRISTMAS ON CRACK
This anti-Christmas anthology hails from the Bizarro crew, and delivers exactly what you might expect: a lot of XXX-rated, black humored weirdness, rendered in prose that’s on the level of a high school creative writing assignment
PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN HIS CHATEAU
A profoundly vile piece of work that I’ve long wanted to read. L’ANGLAIS DECRIT DANS LE CHATEAU FERME was initially published in Paris (under the pseudonym Pierre Morion) back in 1953, and then banned for over 25 years
THE ROOM
There are so many things wrong with THE ROOM, the first (and thankfully only) novel by Canadian author Michael Grey, that it’s difficult to know where to start the criticism
THE ROACHES HAVE NO KING
You veteran horror readers may recall the mini-tempest this novel drummed up back in 1990
REGISTRY OF DEATH
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
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