CRAZY 4 CULT: CULT MOVIE ART Gallery 1988
Titan For five years, Los Angeles’ Gallery 1988 has hosted an annual “Crazy 4 Cult” art show where renowned artists, such as Shepard Fairey and Jason D’Aquino, peddle their pop culture-inspired works. Now, Titan Books has assembled some of the exhibit’s best art into a hardcover volume, featuring more than 150 artists. While the broad focus is on cult cinema, They Live, Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, Friday the 13th and The Exorcist are all celebrated within, making this an ideal coffee-table conversation piece. JENNIFER M. WOOD
BLACK SABBATH FAQ Martin Popoff
Backbeat Books As obsessive as Black Sabbath is heavy, this unorthodox grab bag of Sabbath insider interviews, time- lines, analyses and rare photos from acclaimed metalhead journalist Martin Popoff exhaustively traces the origin and con- tinuing influence of the band’s legendary doom. Casual fans looking for a straight biography should opt for Popoff’s previous book on the Sabs, Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose, but for minutiae-lovin’ diehards, this is essential.
TREVOR TUMINSKI
DIABOLICAL Hank Schwaeble
Jove In this second installment of Hank Schwaeble’s ongoing supernatural crime series, detective Jake Hatcher is forced to stop a twisted plot to open a portal to hell. What’s worse, the hellion in charge is his own brother. Be sure to read Damnable (RM#92) first or else the intricate plot and minimal back story will likely leave your head swim- ming. Intensely enjoyable, but admittedly bleak, this novel is perfect for crime-horror fans.
JESSA SOBCZUK
Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films: A perfunctory look at films including The Human Vapor.
After a touching dedication to late metal icon Ronnie James Dio, Rock ’n’ Roll Is Dead rolls out a set
list of dark shorts inspired by music, which fall into the two well-known musical categories of either killer or filler. Early numbers such as Jenna M. Pitman’s gripping underwater love story “The Language of Bones” (inspired by The Killers’ “Bones”), the bewitching misdirection of Quentin Pittman’s “Saving Grace” (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell On You”) and Ben A. Bell’s hell-on-wheels trucker yarn “Just Another Town” (The Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil”) are guaranteed to get your gooseflesh dancing. However, the corpse harvesting of Bryan Oftedahl’s “Snatch” (Against Me’s “How Low”) – a storyline highly reminiscent of the 1990 film The Ambulance – and the phantom soldiers of David Ren- frow’s “Messages” (Disturbed’s “Ten Thousand Fists”) are not only unaffecting, they also arouse sus- picion as to whether they simply had a song title tacked on to fit the anthology’s theme. Like a great tune, though, the collection builds to a crescendo of its most memorable hooks: Chris
Samson’s wrestling match-cum-unearthly death match in “The Rule Breaker” (Ramones’ “The Crusher”); Morgan Dambergs’ “Untethered” (Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad”), in which some girls go really wild; the cursed drum kit of Nate D. Burleigh’s “Trap Set” (The Surfaris’ “Wipe Out”); and the most musical entry, Nathan Crowder’s “The Invitation” (David Bowie’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”), which finally reveals the truth about the last stop for deceased musical legends, that great gig in the sky. While not every cut is destined for the hall of fame, editor Marc Ciccarone has assembled an enter-
taining set of shorts in a range of styles as diverse as their musical counterparts. And with the longest entry clocking in at just thirteen pages, if one story doesn’t rock you, take Bob Seger’s advice and simply “turn the page.”
TREVOR TUMINSKI THE CONCRETE GROVE British author Gary McMahon, the scribe behind Pretty Little Dead Things and Hungry Hearts, has
a way of making even hummingbirds seem menacing in his imaginative, genre-bending novel The Concrete Grove. Elements of urban fantasy, body horror and Lovecraftian psychological terror mix
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