Dead Things: “Dea...

Mmmm, here’s a pretty gnarly video by filmmaker Daniel Columbie:  Deadlift. Definitely a “Dead Things”...

A Big Dripping Mouthful

I read 20 pages before even sitting down. First impression metaphor—a silky rich sauce with a texture and edge that calls you to jam in your fork and take a big dripping mouthful.  This is way far advanced from your previous works that I have read. No shit! I guess you really were busy...

Globalized Manga Turned...

From what twisted recesses of the imagination does a character like Clément spring? It’s a globalized manga comic turned literature. The circus troupe was a stroke of genius. Some scenes will be etched into my memory forever. —Maureen Wheeler, Founder, Lonely Planet...

Zombie Outbreak

This is no sudden crush, no quick fling with the undead. It’s an infatuation that began back in 1962 when Bela Lugosi starred as a Haitian Vodou master who is enlisted to zombify a beautiful young woman. In 1968 George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, achieved cult status and...

Zombies and Ghouls and ...

I’ve never been much interested in the world of zombies and ghouls and the like. But this I’m finding pretty much fascinating. So, right there, that’s a good thing. Soccer moms and teenage boys. Wow, what a spread. —Lauren...