OPEN SEASON
Here’s a perfect case study in how a bad movie adaptation can tarnish the reputation of a really good book.
NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY
The wit, verve and imagination that characterize Goldman’s best work are very much evident in this suspenseful and macabre novel that predates everything from DEXTER to NATURAL BORN KILLERS in its furiously inventive account of the fortunes of a mass murderer. I say it’s one of William Goldman’s finest books.
MR. OVERBY IS FALLING: DIRECTOR CUT
After reading this newly revised “Director’s Cut” version, which contains a retrospective introduction by the author and several newly written footnotes, I fully understand the book’s popularity.
MEFISTO IN ONYX
Think SCANNERS crossed with SILENCE OF THE LAMBS as related by Jim Thompson and you’ll have the gist of this weird and wonderful novella by Harlan Ellison.
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.
LEGION
This is the official sequel to THE EXORCIST (the novel) written by its creator William Peter Blatty. Most of the things that made THE EXORCIST such a memorable read are in evidence in LEGION, including page-turning suspense, strong characterizations and a powerful sense of raging evil.
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
There’s never been another first person psycho novel like this one, nor a character quite like Lou Ford, THE KILLER INSIDE ME’s disturbed protagonist.
HERO AND THE TERROR (Book)
HERO AND THE TERROR inspired little attention of any sort; there’s a reason for the neglect, of course, as truth be told this simply isn’t a very good book.
HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS
A short (98 page) tale of a voracious sex murderess, the novel is related in a jaunty and refined tone that dramatically offsets its depraved content
THE GREEN WOMAN
He (together with co-writer Michael Easton) takes to the form like a natural, spinning a fractured, visually oriented yarn that works extremely well in graphic form.