Two Books (and One Film) by Ladislav Fuks
Here’s a brilliant author few seem to remember: the Czech Ladislav Fuks, who is known in the English speaking world for just two books, MR. THEODORE MUNDSTOCK and THE CREMATOR
On Reality, Fiction and Madness: The Novels of Dennis Potter
Potter’s TV dramas and movie scripts are certainly deserving of careful study, and have for the most part received it. Far less attention has been granted his novels
Short Hair, Beautiful Guts, Slave Girls and Vampire Loins!
You can rest assured that a novel titled THE MAN WHO HAD HIS HAIR CUT SHORT won’t ever be mistaken for (say) ENTRAILS OF THE VIRGIN
The Horror and Fantasy Cinema of Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz is the Czech Republic’s cinematic master of all things fantastic
PIN
Andrew Neiderman, who as of 2010 has published more than 100 novels, can be frustratingly inconsistent, but when he’s “on” he’s hard to beat
ROUGH BEASTS
As the title warns, the stories collected here are from the early days of Harlan Ellison’s career, specifically the late 1950s
THE RESURRECTIONIST
A wonderfully evocative bit of elegant grotesquerie that’s unique in every aspect
THE RAPIST
Here we have a genuine rarity: a truly original entry in a rather hackneyed subgenre. THE RAPIST is so unique, in fact, that I’m finding it difficult to adequately describe
RAIN
This graphic novel collects the six issues of writer/illustrator Rolf F. Stark and co-writer Marlene Stevens’ early nineties underground comic RAIN
WILLY
One of the most memorable thinking person’s horror stories to appear in some time, and one of 2011’s standout publications