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 ...

Winston Churchill once described Russia as, “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” This same analogy could be used to describe western attitudes about Japan for many years. Until admiral Matthew Perry opened its gates to foreigners in ...

You could be forgiven if your knowledge of Conan is limited to two super violent, strangely sexualised Arnold Schwarzenegger movies from the ‘80s, and one ill-fated Jason Momoa vehicle from 2011 (everyone forgets Red Sonja (1985) so we shall too). ...

When Horace Walpole unleashed his novel, The Castle of Otranto, in 1764, he gave birth to a literary movement now known as Gothic fiction.  The following decades saw a host of authors continue the tradition with their own iconic texts, ...

Fans of John Carpenter: familiarise yourselves with the name James Ninness if you haven’t already.  The writer previously collaborated with the horror master and his wife, Sandy King, on both of their Tales for a Halloween Night anthologies, released in 2015 ...