Category Archives: fiction reviews

Labyrinth by Eric Mackenzie-Lamb (1980)

Posted on February 4, 2017 by paperbacksandpugs

IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SWAMP LURKED A GRUESOME NIGHTMARE Nope. Not really, anyway. Labyrinth is difficult, because I liked it quite a bit, but it also lied to me. It promised me a gruesome lurking nightmare, something ‘even more … Continue reading →

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HALLOWEEN by Curtis Richards (1979)

Posted on September 19, 2016 by paperbacksandpugs

I love movie novelisations, though they don’t always make it easy for me to do so. Lumpen prose and slavish adherence to the source material can make for a frustrating and, frankly, boring read. I’ve seen the film. I want … Continue reading →

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CONSUMED by David Cronenberg (2014)

Posted on September 8, 2016 by paperbacksandpugs

In David Cronenberg’s impossible to summarise debut novel, we follow the bizarre misadventures of a pair of journalist lovers on the trail of a French philosopher who murdered and ate his wife. Ha, you say! That was not impossible to … Continue reading →

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CHILDMARE by Nick Sharman (1980)

Posted on August 25, 2016 by paperbacksandpugs

Let’s talk about the unexplained. Or, rather, the over-explained. See for me, horror tends to work best when it takes place for no reason. It’s why Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake wasn’t as successful as the original, when Michael Myers was … Continue reading →

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THE SCARLET GOSPELS by Clive Barker (2015)

Posted on August 18, 2016 by paperbacksandpugs

I’d like this blog to be a positive place, where we can celebrate horror in it’s many forms. I take no pleasure in deriding a piece of work, and certainly do not enjoy knocking a master of the art. What … Continue reading →

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