![]() ![]() Lucas Ellington’s daughter caught a case of death at a rock show. In fact, The Kill Riff is a psychologically adroit shock piece, at turns violent, blackly comic, and moving. Though originally published in the final heydays of the 80s horror boom (my hardcover copy sets copyright as 1988), The Kill Riff is something altogether different than those black covered books featuring bloody teardrops, shrieking skeletons, or holograms. I first read this in the early nineties and have been eager to revisit it since checking out Centipede Press’ lovely edition of The Shaft earlier this year (Schow’s exquisite supernatural horror novel). Sure, every now and again there are quiet stories (see “Monster Movies” in his novella collection Lost Angels) but the man seems incapable of writing gentle prose. There is little I can think of so nihilistic, so savage, so emotionally numbing as being one of the poor bastards stuck in his imagination’s terrain. One of the things I am most grateful for: I do not (knowingly) live in the world of one of David J. Murder Will Out: The… on The Psychology of Fear: The Ca…īent and Uncanny: De… on Now I Have the Truth Ho, Ho,… Murder Will Out: The… on Spoooooky Hands and Moving Can… Murder Will Out: The… on SHOCKtober: Old Dark House Dou… I Wish I Were Special: Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3īloody Awful Work in… on CAMP BLOOD REDUX: ADAM CESARE….Bent and Uncanny: Dean Koontz’s The Other Emily.Bloody Awful Work in the Berks: Adam Cesare’s The Summer Job.Across the Prairie With Blood and Bullets: Winchester ’73 (1950). ![]()
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