Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer: Valancourt Books

Monday, October 19, 2020

Review - Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom

Today, I'm reviewing 1986's Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom. More specifically, it's the Paperbacks from Hell edition by Valancourt Books that has a new introduction by author Grady Hendrix.

Tor Books originally published Black Ambrosia during the horror-craze of the 1980s. After appearing in Grady Hendrix's Paperback from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction in 2017, the nearly forgotten title has come back from the grave, thanks to the 2019 reprint.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Review - The Bedeviled by Thomas Cullinan

Billy Burgess books , classic

My second favorite Clint Eastwood film is the 1971 Gothic tale The Beguiled, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan. Director Sofia Coppola remade the film in 2017, and, though it wasn’t nearly as good as the original film, I still liked it. I had never got my hands on a copy of the 1966 novel until Penguin Books published a new edition to tie-in with the remake. Unfortunately, I have never gotten around to reading the book, but it’s on my to-be-read list.