While I've looked through the book countless times since getting it, I didn't sit down to read it from beginning to end until this past weekend. Not wanting to pass up a bargain, I ended up getting the eBook. Coincidentally, Kindle placed the eBook on sale on November 1st. At the time, I was strapped for cash, so I waited until the end of October to order the book. The nonfiction title, published by Quirk Books in 2017, is about the twisted history of the '70s and '80s horror fiction, which features many gorgeous (and creepy) covers. Naturally, I was curious about what this Paperback from Hell ( Available on Paperback and Kindle!) was about, so I did a little research. Wright, Jere Cunningham, John Farris, Jack MacLane, and Brian Lumley.Įarly last year, I read an article on Bloody Disgusting that Valancourt Books were going to be reprinting long out-of print-horror books from the '80s that appeared in Paperback from Hell by Grady Hendrix (co-authored with Will Errickson). Over the years, I have collected a small library of horror paperbacks by many great authors, such as Charles L. The only place to find horror paperbacks were at used bookshops and thrift stores. The horror novels were popular throughout the '70s and '80s, but the genre became a dead market in the early '90s. While I was still reading King during high school, I later fell in love with Anne Rice's erotic vampire tales, John Saul's creepy paperbacks, and Clive Barker's bloody stories.
Stine, Christopher Pike, and dozen of other YA thrillers by the time I started reading Stephen King novels in junior high. Bullied and feeling like an outcast during all of my high school years in the late '90s, I fell in love with the horror novels.
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