Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)– Guy Maddin’s debut feature is a smallpox fever dream set in an Icelandic/Canadian fishing village The Beast [ La Bête] (1975)– A drawing room nuptial drama, only with scenes of explicit (simulated) bestiality

The Serpent's Heart", first published in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, Ragnarok Publications, 2014 Nosferatu [ Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens; Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror] (1922)– F.W. Murnau’s unauthorized Expressionist adaptation of “Dracula” is a melange of sex and disease Indecent Desires (1968)– This roughie about the symbiotic sexual relationship between a transient, a magic ring, a doll, and a blonde secretary is our choice to represent the oeuvre of Doris Wishman Altered States (1980)– Ken Russell’s visionary tale of genetic regression under the influence of magic mushrooms may be the greatest “trip” movie ever madeI have mentioned Howard A. Jones more than once with his stories on Hanuvar in Tales of the Magician’s Skull. Howard has created a fiction version of Hannibal in a fantastic world. “The Warrior’s Way” is an excerpt from the forthcoming Lord of the Shattered Land.

Fando y Lis (1968)– Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first film, from a Fernando Arrabal play, is about a man carrying his lame lover through the desert on a quest to find the magical city of TarFuneral Parade of Roses [ Bara no sôretsu] (1969)– Basically, a psychedelic Japanese drag adaptation of “Oedipus Rex” The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (2022)– A mold growing on a mattress develops consciousness and steals sleepers fifth thoracic vertebra The Taste of Tea (2004)– The quaintly surreal adventures of a rural Japanese family include a girl plagued by a giant doppelganger only she can see

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)– A musical about a Japanese family who keep discovering corpses in their bed and breakfast—partly done in claymation Beyond Dream’s Door (1989)– A college student finds himself trapped in a series of nightmares while attending The Ohio State Unversity

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)– Claymation selection of Twain stories, with a wraparound story about the author flying a homemade blimp to catch Haley’s comet