Book Review: Fulci’s Inferno

December 12, 2025 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Horror Reference Book and tagged Beatrice Cenci, City of the Living Dead, Don't Torture a Duckling, Fulci's Inferno, House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, Matt Rogerson, McFarland, New York Ripper, The Beyond, The Psychic | 1 Comment

Fulci’s Inferno: Faith in the Films of a Horror and Giallo Auteur
Published by McFarland, 2025. 257 pages.
By Matt Rogerson

Anytime I see a book dedicated to Lucio Fulci and his work, I’m immediately in, which was the case for this book from Rogerson. That’s mainly because there isn’t a ton of work on him, which is very sad. I will say this work is more in the “academic study” style, which for me at least, were usually a little too “out there”, with lots of theories as to what the filmmaker really meant, at least according to the authors. But I’ve found that as I’ve gotten older is that while I may still not agree with what the author is saying, and that’s with any author, I really now do enjoy reading about these different ideas or theories and just thinking about them. Doesn’t mean I’m going to agree with them, but I love the fact that it gets your mind pondering different ideas and maybe thinking about a particular film, or even a single scene in the movie in a way you didn’t before.

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McFarland Slashes Prices

October 25, 2024 by Jon Kitley in Book News and tagged Fulci's Inferno, Matt Rogerson, McFarland | 1 Comment

We all know that while McFarland has some amazing book titles, they do run a bit on the pricey side. Which is why it is even more important to take advantage of this sale they are having. If you buy 2 or more horror books and enter the code HALLOWEEN2024 you will get 40% off the total price. They already had a few titles that I’ve been meaning to pick up, but was surprised to find a couple more that I didn’t even know about.

Matt Rogerson has a new book coming out, called Fulci’s Inferno: Faith in the Films of a Horror and Giallo Auteur. According to the description on McFarland’s site, this book “analyzes the tenets and iconography of Fulci’s Roman Catholic faith across key films in his filmography, plotting an apostate’s journey through his art in the vein of many celebrated Italian artists that went before him. The volume also considers how exploring his faith and apostasy through his films led Fulci to develop an entirely new storytelling mechanism which has influenced genre directors ever since.

The sale runs through now until October 31st. Just click HERE to get to their website.

Books, Books and More Books!

June 29, 2024 by Jon Kitley in Book News and tagged Aislinn Clarke, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Andrew Screen, Beasts, Bloody Women, Chris Fellner, Fred Olen Ray, Harker Press, Hell-Bent for Hollywood, Jospeh Maddrey, Matt Rogerson, McFarland, Nigel Kneale, Screen Chills Companion, The Book of Beasts, The Cinema Coven, The Soul of Wes Craven, The Vatican Versus Horror Movies, Victoria McCollum, Wes Craven | 2 Comments

Books are a strange thing. When you dig into the details of the publishing world, for every huge best seller, there are countless other titles that barely sell a couple of hundred copies in their lifetime. And with each one of those, the author spent a lot of time on them, years for some, to have them waste away into obscurity.

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Fortunately, for people like me and more of a few out there reading this, we still continue to add more and more of these volumes to our library, even though we know the realistic notion of getting to read each and every one of them gets smaller and smaller with each one we purchase. And yet, we still do it. I know for a fact that I do. For me, being that usually get non-fiction books dealing with the horror genre, I never know when I might need to pull particular title out for a little research. I mean, I do it all the time, depending on what I’m working on.

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