Issue 22 (October 1990)
82 Pages in total
Fear Fiction:
Necroscope IV: Deadspeak [Extract] - Brian Lumley – 4 Pages
Here we have a four page extract from British horror author Brian Lumley’s novel ‘Necroscope IV: Deadspeak’ (1990) which formed the fourth instalment into his long-running ‘Necroscope’ series.
Satisfaction Guaranteed – James Lovegrove – 2 Pages
[DLS Review to come]
The Midas Factor – Cherith Baldry – 3 Pages
[DLS Review to come]
The Color Of Chance Is Green – Jeff Vandermeer – 3 Pages
[DLS Review to come]
Happier Endings – J N Williamson – 3 Pages
[DLS Review to come]
The Volunteer – Simon Kemp – 6.5 Pages
[DLS Review to come]
Pro-Files:
Frank Henenlotter – Hooked! – 2 Pages
“Frank Henenlotter has a thing for freaks. His first horror film, Basket Case, became a cult classic. Its sequel, Basket Case 2 and his equally odd horror movie, Frankenhooker have again got audiences and censors in a lather. Philip Nutman paid a visit to the director’s LA-based lair.”
Richard Stanley – To Hell And Back – 4 Pages
“First time director Richard Stanley looks likely to become an overnight success with his London-lensed SF/horror movie Hardware. But as FEAR’s Philip Nutman reports, instant stardom has not gone to Stanley’s head...”
Fiction Files:
Pat Murphy – Fiction File 15 – 0.5 Pages
“Award-winning author and science adventurer Pat Murphy talks to Liz Holliday about her latest SF novel, The City Not Long After.”
Julian Lloyd Webber – Fiction File 16 – 0.5 Pages
“FEAR reader and world famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber shocks John Gilbert with news of his first horror anthology.”
F Paul Wilson - Fiction File 17 – 0.5 Pages
“Doctor by day, horror writer by night, F Paul Wilson still finds time to enjoy the accolades from fans of novels such as The Keep, The Touch and The Tomb. Celebrating twenty years as an author, he tells John Gilbert about Reborn, his soon to be published sequel to The Keep which, if fate had been unkind, would have been a very different book.”
The Fear Factor:
Nightbreed – Flesh And Fury – 6 Pages
“A fistful of treasures, hardly touched: that sums up the golden marketing opportunities available to Twentieth Century Fox as it prepared to promote Clive Barker’s Nightbreed. And yet, according to the director, the American launch missed chances and courted disaster, publicising Nightbreed as a slasher movie! Will the British premiere be better judged? Mark Salisbury asked Clive Barker the billion dollar question.”
H P Lovecraft – The Call Of Cthulhu – 5 Pages
“To celebrate Cthulhu mythos creator H P Lovecraft’s centenary, FEAR invited author Ramsey Campbell to chart the great man’s life and reveal why he thinks Lovecraft’s stories have had such an influence on generations of horror writers.”
Graphic Novels & Comics – Graphic Detail – 2 Pages
“Warren Lapworth celebrates the fact that Graphic Detail is now six months old with some weird humour, weirder characters and the demise of a rather ordinary series.”
Book Reviews:
Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Making Of The Film – Mark Salisbury & John Gilbert 2/5
Chung Kuo Book One: The Middle Kingdom – David Wingrove 4/5
The Time Lapsed Man And Other Stories – Eric Brown 3/5
The Drive In 2 – Joe R Lansdale 4/5
Second Variety, Volume 2: The Collected Stories Of Philip K Dick – Philip K Dick 2/5
Reborn – F Paul Wilson 3/5
Smith Of Wootton Major, Farmer Giles Of Ham, The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil – J R R Tolkien 3/5
Use Of Weapons – Iain M Banks 3/5
Midnight Sun – Ramsey Campbell 4/5
Kalimantan – Lucius Shepard 4/5
Bad Dreams – Kim Newman 4/5
Writer’s Workshop: Plot – Ansen Dibell 4/5
The Gate: Science Fiction & Fantasy – W Publishing 3/5
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime – Roger Corman & Jim Jerome 3/5
Four Past Midnight – Stephen King 5/5
Film Reviews:
Hardware - Directed by Richard Stanley 4/5
Ghost - Directed by Jerry Zucker 4/4
Nightbreed - Directed by Clive Barker 4/5
Vampire’s Kiss - Directed by Robert Bierman 4/5
Robocop 2 - Directed by Irvin Kershner 2/5
Wild At Heart - Directed by David Lynch 4/5
Destiny To Order - Directed by Jim Purdy 3/5
Renegades - Directed by Jack Sholder 4/5
Voyage Of The Rock Aliens - Directed by James Fargo 2/5
Robo Ninja - Directed by Keita Amamiya 3/5
Blood Ransom - Directed by Cedric Sundstrom 2/5
Money, Power, Murder - Directed by Lee Philips 3/5
Twice Dead - Directed by Bert Dragin 4/5
Personals - Directed by Stephen H Stern 4/5
Revenge Of The Radioactive Reporter - Directed by Craig Pryce 1/5
The Death Of The Incredible Hulk - Directed by Bill Bixby 4/5
Brain Dead - Directed by Adam Simon 4/5
Megaville - Directed by Peter Lehner 3/5
Tango And Cash - Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky 4/5
Sundown - Directed by Anthony Hickox 4/5
Body Chemistry - Directed by Kristine Peterson 1/5
Cold Comfort - Directed by Vic Sarin 3/5
Little Monsters - Directed by Richard Alan Greenberg 4/5
Apprentice To Murder - Directed by Ralph L Thomas 4/5
Flowers In The Attic - Directed by Jeffrey Bloom 3/5
Pin - Directed by Sandor Stern 2/5
Flash Gordon - Directed by Mike Hodges 3/5
Amazon Women On The Moon - Directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K Weiss, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton 3/5
Doctor Who: The Web Planet - Directed by Richard Martin 2/5
Doctor Who: The Dominators - Directed by Morris Barry 4/5
Trancers - Directed by Charles Band 4/5
Killer Klowns From Outer Space - Directed by Stephen Chiodo 4/5
Teen Witch - Directed by Dorian Walker 2/5
