DIRTY WEEKEND

Fiction

What we have here is essentially a feminist minded DEATH WISH, although this novel presents itself as something far deeper

SLAUGHTERHOUSE HIGH

Fiction

A bizarre refashioning of PROM NIGHT as an allegory of post-9/11 America, this novel is either terminally loopy or some kind of satiric tour de force.

DARK MATTER (Greg Reeves)

Fiction

Certainly the only serial killer novel to combine mass murder, quantum physics and a heartfelt dissertation on the ethics of science.

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

Fiction

Grayson Perry is a renowned British artist and notorious cross dresser with a penchant for the gross and pornographic. I’m assuming this humorous and frankly obscene graphic novel is at least partially autobiographical.

THE CURSE OF LATOMBA

Fiction

Here’s an interesting artifact I recently unearthed from my closet, a horror novel packaged as a tabloid newspaper, complete with (bogus) ads and photos. Printed in South Carolina by someone calling himself “Edward Hyde” (a pen name, obviously!), it’s a lurid, nasty, occasionally funny first person account of a cannibalistic serial killer named Edgar, told in the form of a lengthy letter he writes to a supermarket rag called “The Grapevine.” Here’s an interesting artifact I recently unearthed from my closet, a horror novel packaged as a tabloid newspaper, complete with (bogus) ads and photos. Printed in South Carolina by someone calling himself “Edward Hyde” (a pen name, obviously!), it’s a lurid, nasty, occasionally funny first person account of a cannibalistic serial killer named Edgar, told in the form of a lengthy letter he writes to a supermarket rag called “The Grapevine.”

THE COUNT OF ELEVEN

Fiction

England’s Ramsey Campbell is one of the finest horror scribes on the scene, and THE COUNT OF ELEVEN one of his best-ever novels

CHILD OF GOD

Fiction

No other Cormac McCarthy novel better exemplifies his more anti-social tendencies than CHILD OF GOD.