1967 / Audiobook / 245 pages / USA
*****
There are lots of gaps in my horror history, but this update of the haunted house mystery feels like a major milestone. Having a baby of my own made it especially affecting as it went along (I was a callous psychopath before, obviously), and the technically horrific ending was quite the relief.
1993 / Audiobook / 208 pages / USA
*
Baxter's Inferno isn't troubling the classics in the literary department, but the insistent call to action after every derivative description places it more in the self-help field anyway. Which is strange, because following its guidance would make you an evil bigot too.
2009 / Ebook / 136 pages / UK
**
It's been long enough since I sped through the series without pausing to smell the putrescence that a retrospective was welcome, but stuffy academic overanalysis wasn't the best way to go about it. Maybe Grandreams put out an annual?
2010 / Ebook / 131 pages / USA
***
This celebration of raw simplicity gives up on futile in-depth analysis after the first song, instead inviting various voices to recount the background story of Satanic panic and self-destructive lifestyles.
2014 / Ebook / 144 pages / UK
**
Recapping the entire history of recorded music is apparently necessary for understanding these punk songs.
