Chas Balun and “Piece O’ Mind”
You most likely knew the late Chas Balun as the irrepressible voice of Deep Red magazine and the creator of the Gore Score, but his freelance work was equally noteworthy
CLASS OF 1999
Q: What do you get when you pair Malcolm McDowell as the principal of a school, with Stacey Keach and Pam Grier as android teachers on a killing rampage? A: Lots of ultra-violent fun!
SOCIETY
So-so eighties horror enlivened by amazing special effects and a GREAT climax
GEMINI
Another fascinating and unprecedented film from Japan’s foremost underground auteur Shinya Tsukamoto
THE LAUGHING DEAD
The filmmaking debut of novelist S.P. Somtow, and further proof, after Stephen King’s MAXIMUM OVEDRIVE, that horror novelists are better off behind the typewriter
THE DAY CHRIST DIED
It’s fascinating how much attention Christians devote to the death of Jesus Christ, of which this book stands as a telling example
CELLARS
CELLARS is far from author John Shirley’s best work, but is a headbanging blast nonetheless
The BOOKS OF BLOOD at 30
It was sometime in 1986 that a certain horror-obsessed pre-teen—me, to be exact—came across a paperback entitled VOLUME ONE OF CLIVE BARKER’S BOOKS OF BLOOD
2007: Bedlam in Print
2007 is over. A good year? For horror literature I’d say yes, it was
2006: Bedlam in Print
Welcome to the first installment of my year-end overview of the year in horror fiction