Richard Sala was a writer and artist with a unique gift for telling stories that could present the most chilling sort of characters with a smile, bring a perfect gothic horror sensibility to a comics page, and invoke the dizzying insanity and violence of early Dario Argento pictures while cloaking it in the visual sensibilities of silent movies. He also had a gift for turning pulp fiction tropes inside out to great effect, was a master of the unreliable narrator, and produced some great spoofs of young readers and young adult fiction.
Sala passed away on May 7, 2020. I feel he never got the recognition he deserved--and that includes from me. I bought his books regularly, read them, enjoyed them, and put them on the shelf. It took his passing to make me realize I'd only ever made passing references to his work and never done any articles or blog posts devoted specifically to it.
With this page, I hope to make up for my past oversights. It's an index to reviews and other posts about Sala's books and artwork that have appeared at my Shades of Gray and Terror Titans blogs. (I am also putting projections for reviews I am planning for the future, some of which will probably end up at Watching the Detectives.)
QUICK REFERENCES
THE ART EXHIBITS
THE PERILS OF PECULIA
THE CASEBOOK OF JUDY DROOD, GIRL DETECTIVE
A Very Peculia Halloween (Art Gallery)
Peculia Paintings (Color Images at Terror Titans)
When Ghost Pepper Challenges Go Wrong (Meme using Sala art)
Mad Night (Review Coming)
The Gravedigger's Daughter (Review Coming)
SHORT STORIES
ANTHOLOGIES
Black Cat Crossing (Review)
In a Glass Grotesquely (Review Coming)
Maniac Killer Strikes Again (Review Coming)
Poison Flowers and Pandemonium (Review Coming)
Violenzia and Other Deadly Amusements (Review Coming)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Bloody Cardinal (Review Coming)
Cat Burglar Black (Review Coming)
The Chuckling Whatsit (Review Coming)
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