From 1954 to the early '70s, comics publishers kept a
tight rein on the horror genre to avoid the kind of Senate
investigation-inspiring trouble that horror co...
If you are a bibliophile with a yen for vintage
paperbacks from the less respectable side of the tracks - men's action novels, horror books, tabloid
cash...
It is
simultaneously the most famous and most infamous of Stephen King's formidable
bibliography. Until the unexpurgated version of The Stand was released a fe...
You could be excused for thinking that the rock book
world already has enough tomes on the topic of Van Halen. In the last few decades, we've seen
autobi...
The phrase "rite of passage" is thrown around
with nostalgic abandon when people discuss the pop culture of their teen years
but it still means something when ...
Joel M. Reed fits into the "deep cut" category
of exploitation film knowledge. Most who remember his film career remember it
for Bloodsucking Freaks, one of th...
An interesting little controversy popped up in hard rock/AOR fan circles at the end of last year when Gordon G.G. Gebert announced the release of a self-publish...
Before he came the kingpin of hard-rockin' discography overview books, Martin Popoff established himself as a specialist in heavy metal criticism via review gui...
A while back, Schlockmania covered a pair of special issues of Drive-In Asylum, an entertaining new 'zine done in the style of the classic cult movie 'zines of ...
Back in the day, Fangoria was important to horror fans but it wasn't a struggle to find it. Any halfway decent newsstand or mall bookstore always had it in stoc...
In the short term, the internet dealt a savage blow to the world of the cult movie 'zine. It allowed enthusiasts of all kinds to dispense with the costs and th...
If you are familiar with the world of old school direct-to-video horror, the name Bret McCormick might ring a bell. Between the mid-'80s and the mid-'90s, he c...
