It’s been said of Poe that no sooner had he invented the detective story than he abandoned it. The same thing might well be said for David J. Schow and “splatterpunk,” the literary subgenre he helped invent during the “horror boom” of the 1980s. Splatterpunk attempts to elicit a visceral reaction from the reader […]

Book critic Scott Connors looks at Charles Stross’s return to Lovecraftian mathematics, Victor Rousseau’s classic WEIRD TALES stories of a psychic detective, and Ellen Datlow & Co.’s latest installment of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

Freaky old books are reborn and strange new ones claw their way out of the darkness, as columnist Scott Connors reviews recent releases and reissues from Leonard Cline, G.G. Pendarves, Eric Frank Russell, George Zebrowski, Thomas Ligotti and more.