It would have been around 1968 that a local theater in my hometown of Smyrna, GA booked a run for a nature documentary and tagged a short feature onto the bill; a 20-minute (or so) additional documentary that featured my first exposure to w…
As a boy, I decided to indulge my love for Tarzan movies by acquiring and reading some of the original books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. When I was 10 years old, I received the first 5 Tarzan books in a slipcase for Christmas. These were the e…
The following column originally appeared in Justin Marriott's PAPERBACK FANATIC #50 (sadly the final edition of this fine publication), which was published in August of 2025. You can buy a copy of it HERE. That article has been slightly exp…
The following column originally appeared in Justin Marriott's PAPERBACK FANATIC #50 (sadly the final edition of this fine publication), which was published in August of 2025. You can buy a copy of it HERE. That article has been slightly exp…
The following column originally appeared in Justin Marriott's PAPERBACK FANATIC 49, which was published in November of 2024. You can buy a copy of it HERE. Do you remember a time just a few decades ago when it seemed like almost every even
The following column was originally printed in Justin Marriott's Paperback Fanatic 47, which was published in July of 2023. You can buy a copy of it here. Though the term ‘folk horror’ didn’t enter into the modern vernacular until the early…
Nick Roberts exploded onto the literary horror scene in 2020 with the publication of his debut horror novel, Anathema, which went on to win the 2020-2021 Horror Authors Guild Award for Debut Novel of the Year. His second novel, The Exorcist…
I can clearly remember when my mom discovered Stephen King. She had always had a passion for a good scary read, mainly focusing on the horror books that bubbled to the surface of the mainstream in the late 60s and early 70s and ended up in
If ever a novel’s title nailed its content, The Boy Who Killed Demons by Dave Zeltserman is that novel as it sums up the plot quite perfectly. This was my introduction to Zeltserman and I most definitely want to read more from him based on
Nick Cutter first came to my attention when researching the sub-genres of body horror and survival horror within the context of modern horror literature at large. His book The Troop was my introduction to his work and I was blown away. Its
Andrew J. Offut was a prolific writer in many genres, including science fiction, fantasy, sword and sorcery, and even erotica. In fact, he authored some 420+ published works of erotica under a variety of different pen-names. But his real pa…
Prolific British author Kenneth Bulmer wrote over 160 novels and numerous short stories (mostly within the science fiction genre), both under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He may be best known for the Dray Prescott series of swo…