Previously on this site, I reviewed author Bracken MacLeod’s first collection of short stories, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods. He’s proven himself to be prolific: his novel Stranded (optioned for a Warner Brothers TV show) was released just last ...

The idea of being watched has always been horrifying but what if you were being watched… by no one? That sentence might sound like it’s trying too hard, but writer, Cullen Bunn, and artist, Jack T. Cole, have created a ...

Thirty years ago, the infamous Dillon (Carl Weathers) deceived an elite rescue team, led by his old friend Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), into infiltrating the inhospitable jungles of South America under the guise of saving survivors of a massive helicopter crash. ...

In a bizarre confluence of recent acquisitions, my last two book reviews for Diabolique were novels that featured people from real life interacting with fictional characters. Given that things often seem to come in threes, it wasn’t too surprising to ...

Meta meets the metaphysical in The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge. This brilliant and dense novel is an intellectual mind game. Reality is ephemeral in a narrative that mixes facts and fantasy. While ostensibly focusing on theorizing about H.P. ...

  “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will” – Rimbaud. You know, in this cynical, bombastic, hedonist-cum-nihilist day and age, it’s easy enough to think that you will never encounter another work of art that will arouse some sort ...

Hellboy debuted in 1994, nearly a quarter century ago, with the indie comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics. Against all odds, the Right Hand of Doom has continued on and found himself in the upper echelon of comic book deities ...

Witchfinder: City of the Dead continues the adventures of Sir Edward Grey, occult investigator by Appointment to her Majesty, Queen Victoria and created by Mike Mignola. This fourth instalment of the Hellboy spin-off, which was originally published as five individual ...

Such an odd choice by Destiny for the creator of an eternal monster, that Stoker fellow. Such a Renfield, such a Sorcerer’s Apprentice. From his diligent research, his industry, his graphic and sex-charged vision grew an icon which overwhelmed the ...

Want some camp with your vamps?  Look no further than Vampyres of Hollywood by horror film favorite Adrienne Barbeau, and co-writer Michael Scott.  Barbeau “fronts” this novel, which makes the jacket blurb by her ex-spouse, director John Carpenter, ever so ...