Anyone wondering why Dell’s fabled Abyss horror line, which promised “Horror unlike anything you’ve ever read before,” didn’t last beyond the early nineties need only read this, one of Abyss’ signature entries. ANTHONY SHRIEK isn’t a bad novel, just a severely bloated and self-indulgent one.
The first volume of Jeff Vandermeer’s “Southern Reach” trilogy, and very likely the best of the three
Here (for once) is a commentary about a director whose work doesn’t particularly excite me: Mexico’s Rafael Corkidi
Janusz Majewski is one of Poland’s most durable and prolific filmmakers
Q: What is an Illustrated Oddment? A: It’s a book that in its gorgeous strangeness and fascination deserves some ink on this site, even if I (for whatever reason) can’t really justify writing a full review
Brazil’s Walter Hugo Khouri’s (1929-2003) THE ANGEL OF THE NIGHT and DAUGHTERS OF FIRE are unquestioned genre standouts with David Lynch-worthy surrealism.
Over the past week the world-renowned glories of France were tragically blighted by terror and death. No matter: the richness of French culture will persist
What twenty selections have in common is that, simply, all are well worth your time to read and/or track down
An interesting item from director Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi, who seems to have at last come into his own
The Chilean born Ruiz turned out quite a few unforgettably bizarre films