French Horror Essentials

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One of the more fascinating, unorthodox and, unfortunately, little-known animated features of recent years

2009: Bedlam in Print

To those who claim the horror story/novel is dead—or the horror novel is worn out, or fiction in general is dead, or whatever—I’ve got this to say: you haven’t been paying attention

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