The Bloody Books of Halloween!

We had so much fun with the Summer of Sleaze series on Tor.com that author Grady Hendrix and I are joining forces again in a kind of literary countdown to All Hallows' Eve. We've dubbed it The Bloody Books of Halloween! Here's my first post and here is Grady's. Today I have a review of a seasonal classic...

Summer of Sleaze Comes to an End

And so we've reached the final installment in Tor's Summer of Sleaze series. Grady Hendrix and I sure had a blast writing 'em, and seems like readers enjoyed learning about vintage forgotten horror fiction and writers. For this last post I reread and reviewed Ray Russell's guilty-pleasure Incubus, his 1976 novel of demonic perversity. You know you love it!

Misquamacus and the Summer of Sleaze

The Summer of Sleaze at Tor.com is nearing its end; today my article on Graham Masterton's wonderful first novel The Manitou (1976) is up; be sure to check it out!

Summer of Sleaze Goes Southern Gothic

I finally finished Michael McDowell's epic 1983 Southern saga of the Caskey family, Blackwater, and posted a review at Tor.com as part of the Summer of Sleaze series. Hope you dig it!

Above illustration is by Terry Oakes for the UK paperback of Blackwater V: The Fortune.

The Summer of Sleaze Continues...

We continue with the Summer of Sleaze: my latest post, this one on '90s horror writer Kathe Koja and the late lamented Dell/Abyss line of paperbacks, went up on Tor on Friday. Fellow reviewer Grady Hendrix and I are only halfway through, so more to come. Hope you guys are digging the series!

Summer of Sleaze in Oxrun Station

Today my latest post in the Summer of Sleaze series is up at Tor.com! This week I write about three novels by Charles L. Grant that feature the classic Universal monsters, all terrorizing Grant's own fictional town, Oxrun Station. Hope you like it!

Summer of Sleaze Continues at Tor.com

My new article in the Summer of Sleaze series by me and Grady Hendrix went up this morning, "The Erotic Horrors of Thomas Tessier." Hope you guys dig it, and leave a comment if you like!

Summer of Sleaze!

A few months back, author Grady Hendrix emailed me to say he was a big fan of TMHF, dug what and how I wrote about horror, and would I be interested in writing a series of articles on vintage paperback horror with him for Tor.com (and maybe make a few bucks doing it)? Naturally I said yes! He called it Summer of Sleaze, and his first piece went up last Friday, on John Christopher's infamous (well, for people into paperback horror) The Little People. We're gonna alternate Fridays every week through August. And so today comes my first piece, titled "In a Dark Country, Red Dreams Stay with You: The Horrors of Dennis Etchison."  I hope you guys check it out, let me know what you think - either in comments here or on Tor's site - and then stay tuned for the rest of the Summer of Sleaze!