MAN WITH FOUR LIVES
From 1935: good writing, good story, crummy ending
Cult Fiction 1: Horror
Until just a few years ago one of the major plusses of collecting horror fiction was that it was incredibly easy, and inexpensive, to acquire. Not anymore!
COMMITTAL CHAMBER
A horror novel? Not quite, although COMMITTAL CHAMBER is a dark and macabre piece of work
BRAINCHILD
Andrew Neiderman’s follow-up to PIN (1981), a novel that’s much better than this one.
SORGOI PRAKOV
Found footage horror that’s different from, and superior to, most other examples
LET ME GO (THE RIGHT WAY)
From Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Stephen King’s son and Sean Penn’s son–Hollywood meritocracy at its best!
2022: Bedlam in Print
The standout books of 2022, as chosen by me
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
FEMALE PSYCHO WARD!!!
Behold: emerging from the smut book underground of the 1960s, the “latest sellout” by the prolific trash-meister Con Sellers, a novel its publishers predicted was “going to make headlines from one end of the country to the other!”
SMILE
Overrated!