I’m putting together a collection of my writing on exploitation film and publishing it as an ebook. Vom Marlowe (who used to write here way back when) designed the really pretty darn awesome cover above. The still is from Night of the Living Dead, which is out of copyright because the filmmakers forgot to put the copyright notice on the print, and it mattered back then.

The book will be out July 11, at least if all goes well and I am not devoured by an evil ichor from outer space.

I thought I’d post the table of contents too. Most of the pieces here have appeared on the web already in one form or another—but not all of them.

Introduction:
Looking Wrong at Halloween

Fecund Horror

The Child Is Father of the Child:
On the Friday the 13th Series

American Torture:
On Hostel and Hostel 2

The Top Ten Rape/Revenge Films

I Spit On Your Quietism

Rape the Children Well:
On The Last House on the Left

Suffering With a Purpose:
On The Virgin Spring

Every Thing In Its Place:
On Irreversible

Patriarchy in You:
On The Stendahl Syndrome

Disgusting Women:
On Under the Skin

Bloody Conventions:
On Martyrs

Men in Women-in-Prison:
Masochism, Feminism, Fetish

Waiting for the Revolution:
On Switchblade Sisters

Embrace the Exploitation:
On Calum Waddell’s Jack Hill

And hey, we can do a promotional contest thingee. First person who can correctly identify the new essays (in comments or on social media) will get a free copy of the ebook! Note some titles have been changed, so googling isn’t going to help you necessarily.

Who is the truest Berlatsky superfan? Do Berlatsky superfans in fact exist? This is our chance to find out.

If contests and/or Berlatsky superfandom makes you spew vile ichor in a flylike manor, you can also get an exciting preview copy if you are a blogging/writing type person and swear on the fishy tentacles of Cthulhu to write a review praising my dextrous prose and awesome insights, and/or taking me to task for lack of same.

The Berlatsky superfandom Thunderdome death duel begins..now!