1996-97 (collected 1997) / Ecomics / 160 pages / USA/UK
**
The daft tale of a vampiric coat lining is the only one of these I remember reading at the time. Alongside bogstandard multi-parters about forest creatures and shady cover-ups, it turned out to be the highlight of the collection.
1998 / Ebook / 256 pages / UK
****
This illuminating if inevitably unreliable oral history of the second best '90s double act gets more in-depth with more people than a documentary would bother. The fact that it only gets as far as 1998 could be seen as a slight bummer, but that's what sequels are for.
2005 / Audiobook / 128 pages / USA
**
If you're in the mood for [the] Ramones, you might not appreciate being lumbered with someone's dreary dissertation on the history of punk. It gets around to the songs near the end, for the level of analysis those require. Well, he had to fill up the rest of the book somehow, didn't he?
2013 / Ebook / 48 pages / Australia
***
A richly illustrated contents list for stories we have to imagine for ourselves, this dependably taps into childhood fear and wonder, but I wasn't feeling it as much as some of his others. Maybe because I was an indoors kid.
2015 / Ebook / 278 pages / Canada
****
Pink Floyd albums (+ Amused to Death) as English literature set to clever music. I enjoyed the chapters in proportion to how much I like the albums. The author's literal interpretations range from intriguingly dubious to banal, depending on the subject matter he's working with.
