Artist Butcher Billy took iconic love and heartbreak songs and reimagined them as if they were Stephen King horror novels. They’re actually quite amusing and…
Last year the Minnesota Opera showcased the world premiere of a new opera based on Stephen King’s famous novel The Shining, the starting point for…
A Viet Cong guerrilla stands guard at the Mekong Delta, 1973. The photograph shows a young woman standing guard on the banks of the Mekong…
‘The Singing Citadel’ by Michael Moorcock. Cover art by Bob Haberfield, 1970. Sci-fi author Michael Moorcock has published a dizzying array of books since getting…
Unless you’re a fan of Barbra Streisand movies, then the name Billy Rose probably won’t mean much. Billy Rose was a legendary Broadway impresario and…
Taking Tiger Mountain is a strange film with an even stranger back story. It all began in 1974 when thirtysomething filmmaker Kent Smith saved up…
‘Hell.’ Welcome to Hell! As your tour guide today to our great Satanic Majesty’s diabolic underworld, may I suggest you pay close attention to the…
In the early ‘60s, a distinctive anti-hero theme emerged in Italian comics. It was typified by Diabolik and Kriminal—both masters of disguise, and both thieves…
It sorta all shook out the same way, really. Promising start followed by a long, slow slog to oblivion. While it might’ve been a one-off…
Illustrator R.A. Maguire was a prolific genre paperback cover artist noted for romance novels and westerns in the ‘70s and ‘80s, but he built his…