TWENTIETH CENTURY GHOSTS
A mighty impressive debut from an assured and wholly individual voice
TOPOR: STORIES AND DRAWINGS
An unheralded but important volume, this, as it was the first-ever English language collection of stories by France’s late Roland Topor, whose brand of macabre satire remains quite distinct
STEPS
Jerzy Kosinski’s previous effort THE PAINTED BIRD is widely identified as a horror novel, and STEPS is nearly as horrific in its probing and unflinching study of moral ambiguity in the form of a dispassionate, and perhaps psychotic, individual
STORY OF THE EYE
Those of you who read this short novel as the “erotic classic” it’s commonly classified as may be disappointed, if not totally bewildered
SYLVOW
The environmental catastrophe genre gets an unforgettable overhaul in Douglas Thompson’s SYLVOW, which reads like an acid trip retooling of John Skipp and Craig Spector’s THE BRIDGE with hints of J.G. Ballard at his most extreme
Edgar Allan Poe at 200
In the field of horror one name stands above all others: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849)
Addio Carmelo
On March 16, 2002, the Italian writer/actor/filmmaker Carmelo Bene passed away
Surrealism in Collage: The Novels of Max Ernst
Max Ernst was one of the most famous of the original surrealists, and his supreme masterworks are the collage novels THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN, A LITTLE GIRL DREAMS OF TAKING THE VEIL and A WEEK OF KINDNESS
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
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?