Warner Paperback Library 1973, cover art by Seymour Chwast

Behold the glory that is the cover and stepback art for a novel I only discovered yesterday, The Transformation , by Canadian thriller w...

I was in Los Angeles for a long weekend, just arrived back in Portland today. On Thursday I went to Iliad Bookshop . This was my second tr...

A sprawling vampire epic set in the glittering midnight environs of the City of Angels, Hollywood USA, They Thirst (Avon Books, May 1981)...

If you're a regular reader of this blog, then you know I'm not much of a Richard Laymon fan. The two novels of his that I'v...

Nice n' lurid, just how we like 'em. Love the alien skull, the blood-drippy title font, all the garish colors, and dig on the colla...

The first of two collections of David J. Schow 's horror stories published in 1990, Seeing Red was one of my favorites back then. Whi...

My introduction to the disturbing real-life horror story that is the death of Elizabeth Short came in the form of James Ellroy 's novel...

Despite David J. Schow 's reputation in the late 1980s as a young horror writer who could gross out readers and critics at 10 paces wi...

Quite often horror fiction is just a hobbled rehash of monster movie/haunted house/slasher conventions and cliches. I can't imagine - bu...