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
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
If you were a reader back in 1991, as I was, then you probably recall, as I do, the furor that accompanied the publication of AMERICAN PSYCHO
Here’s an image as flat-out bizarre as any you’re likely to see: the head of a woman floating in midair, bodiless but for a bloody spine, at the end of which dangles a clump of living organs
Quite simply one of the toughest, meanest and least forgiving short story collections you’ll ever read
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
This is the “restored and uncut” version of THE WOODS ARE DARK, the second novel by the late Richard Laymon, and the one he maintained destroyed his career in the U.S.
If you’ve read any of my previous Weekend of Horrors reportage you’ll likely notice a big difference with this latest one: it’s no longer Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors