By far, the best place to start with Harry Stephen Keeler is the titles of his oeuvre, which flop around in one’s mind: The Skull of the Waltzing Clown, X. Jones — of Scotland Yard (nicely paired with Y. Cheung, Business Detective), The Face of the Man From Saturn, and…
Zardoz is the re-novelization of a movie that was memorable for all the wrong reasons. The goofy title. The giant floating papier-mâché head giving orders and life counseling to a bunch of guys wearing smaller versions of the papier-mâché head over their own heads. Sean Connery—at the time having played James…
When you hear the words “Time Snake and Superclown,” what pops into your head? We folded this book into the library on the merits of the title. To the extent there’s conventional wisdom about Time Snake and Superclown it’s that the book itself is as crazy as the title. That’s…