THE SOUND OF HIS HORN
Quite simply one of the most vivid and powerful tales of horrific suspense ever written
THE SPACE VAMPIRES
This interesting sci fi-tinged take on vampirism was made into the crappy movie LIFEFORCE. Don’t let that put you off, though, as the book is a careful and methodical intellectual thriller—though maybe a bit too methodical
HOWARD THE DUCK: The Greatest Movie Ever Made?
A confession: I love HOWARD THE DUCK
Japanese Cyber-Horror
Japanese Cyberpunk: for those familiar with the films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Shozin Fukui, those words have a very particular connotation, promising an unflinching exploration of the darkest extremes of technology and madness
Four Essential Books by Michael Blumlein
Michael Blumlein, a San Francisco-based doctor, is one of the most distinctive horror/sci fi writers on the scene, as evinced by three absolutely stunning novels and an equally dazzling short story collection
R.I.P. Michael Crichton
Here’s an author with whom I’ve had my differences over the years: the brilliant but erratic Michael Crichton, who on November 4, 2008 passed away at age 66
The Twisted Fiction of David J. Skal
I know David J. Skal best as a writer of dark fiction, and one of the most distinctive such authors on the scene
THE POWER
CARRIE, SCANNERS and quite a few other psychic horror fests are prefigured in this novel, the first by the famed pulp novelist Frank M. Robinson
ROUGH BEASTS
As the title warns, the stories collected here are from the early days of Harlan Ellison’s career, specifically the late 1950s
VACATION
Fans of the late Philip K. Dick will appreciate this hallucinatory first novel, as will all those unafraid of challenging, thoughtful writing