If you’re interested in a genre-heavy lineage of women behind the camera, I Spit on Your Celluloid is a rich, wide-ranging resource. It spans from silent cinema to today, covering international, art, and micro-budget horror, with a range that eclipses many genre surveys. A few layout quirks aside, it’s an excellent guide for discovering new … Continue reading Recent Reading: I Spit on Your Celluloid and Shattenfroh
For a few years in the mid-2000s—and off and on since—I wrote comics, zines, and, on rare occasions, illustrated them. Somewhere in that period, I was introduced to The Journal of MODOK Studies and immediately fell in love with its unique mix of reverence and absurdity, especially at a time when you weren’t really supposed to take … Continue reading A MODOK Origin Story
My review for this experimental poem/horror novel is over at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: Beyond the Planet of the Vampires
You can read last year’s here. Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2025 For fiction, I’d have to go with Antkind. Wonderfully weird and full of surprises—stop-motion filmmaking, one of my favorite interests, is just one of the many splinters lodged in its surreal, obsessive heart. If you’re not already a fan of Kaufman’s … Continue reading The Mid-Year Book Freakout 2025
Over the years, I’ve been trying to make my way through folktale traditions from all across the globe. This one is both familiar and not. You get the first forms of stories like “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” an early alternate version of “Chicken Little” (I think), and several tales and adventures featuring Ashlad, a … Continue reading Marginalia #57
It’s a postmodern, post-apocalyptic sci-fi hippie commune novel. It’s poetic, strange, and easy to read if you’re familiar with Brautigan. I’ve read most of the books now, but I want to check out the poems soon. His poem “A Boat” features a werewolf and is one I always return to. Saloum is a French/Senegalese co-production … Continue reading Marginalia #56: In Watermelon Sugar, Saloum, Squid
Based on the Sawney Bean story like The Hills Have Eyes, Off Season is a blast and is considered one of the first extreme horror books. It resembles a mix of Hills, Night of the Living Dead, and Last House on the Left. Off Season is gory but well-written. Ketchum writes from multiple perspectives and lulls you … Continue reading Marginalia #53: Off Season, Darkness, Anthology Resource Vol. 1
You can read the review at Horror DNA. Continue reading At Horror DNA: In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft
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Stephen McClurg 