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Originally published in 1934, Elizabeth Jenkins’ Harriet is an unsettling account of murder, one that foregrounds victims rather than perpetrators.
The premise: a phantom witch, her lips and eyes sewn shut, haunts the small town of Black Spring. Read Paul Miller’s review of Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s HEX.
Gothic Tourism is one of several books published as part of the ‘Palgrave Gothic’ series, aimed not only at academics but a more general readership. Review by Jennifer Wallis.
John Harrison, author of Hip Pocket Sleaze: The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks, writes about the paperback novels of Jack W. Thomas
The Beast of Chicago: The Murderous Career of H. H. Holmes (2004; Rick Geary). H. H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer (USA, 2004; dir. John Borowski). Review by David Kerekes
When the Comics Magazine Association of America established the Comics Code in 1954, not only was salacious, suggestive, violent and horrific content banished from comic books but an entire industry was decimated.
The Anthology of Rap (2010; edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois). Review by Thomas McGrath.
Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema 1968–1985 (2012; Jill Nelson). Review by John Harrison.
The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics by Fredrik Strömberg. Review by David Kerekes
Why is this the most hated man in American? The Al Goldstein Story has it all…
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
