Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers
The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist
Zombie Media in the 1990s
By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film
THE ORPHEUS PROCESS
Another worthwhile dispatch from the Dell Abyss line of horror paperbacks that flourished in the early 1990s
ABED
A 50 minute zombie-fest from 2012 that sets new standards for cinematic outrage
THE LIVING DEAD
Clocking in at nearly 700 densely packed pages, THE LIVING DEAD seeks to be nothing less than the zombie novel to end all zombie novels
PURANA MANDIR
By Bollywood standards this 1984 film is quite good, packed with chills and boasting a tight storyline that nearly manages to sustain itself over a fast moving 145 minutes
LUCIO FULCI’S THE GATES OF HELL
I’ve been interested in this comic series, adapted from Lucio Fulci’s anti-classic CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, ever since first hearing about it in the late nineties
DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
DON’T DISTURB THE DEAD
DON’T DISTRUB THE DEAD is the first-ever book about the Ramsays, and must be counted as the premiere print resource on the subject
A GRAVEYARD VISIBLE
This, I feel, is the book the famed (and also dreary and excruciatingly self-important) A MONSTER CALLS should have been