This video made me so nostalgic and brought back floods of memories of why I fell in love with horror as a teen in the 80's. Those old covers drew me in every time and I'm gutted I didn't keep the dozens of cheap novels I used to own. Thank you so much, I was considering getting this book and now I'm totally sold :)
Oh it def counts. Awards are never much indicate sales/readership outside of the "in the know" crowd, even in Paperbacks from Hell he talks about a couple of bestsellers that (without reprints and/or movie adaptations) have kind of fallen out of public consciousness.
Just got my copy of this book! Can't wait to check it out. (I also grabbed one of the Valancourt editions, The Nest.) The horror novel I think more people should read isn't from the '80s, but it does happen to be on that shelf behind you. Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own!
I love Horror fiction and especially the 70s to 1990s paperbacks as you talk about. I have some already and I just ordered the rare novelization of The Fog by Dennis Etchison. I recommend Dennis Etchison. And btw I will get my hands on that Paperbacks from Hell book. Looks VERY interesting, I could discover books I never heard of before.
This is at the tail end of the era in question, but go with anything from Robert R. McCammon's peak years: Swan Song, Stinger or Wolf's Hour. Swan Song is especially brilliant.
I'm going to have to talk about some McCammon on the show soon, I know he's a fan favorite but I've never really been able to find a way into his work.
I found this book at my local library and what stuck with me were the wild covers which screamed for the reader's attention on bookstore shelves (this was before the advent of Amazon)! I also liked the chapters on the "Satanic panic" of the 70's and early 80's. I would like to have some more information on what to look for when I go into a used bookstore.
I liked it. Very extreme but it didn't bother me as much as knowing this is what people think is scary. I thought it was great just not scary. The average person though. They wont get past the halfway mark
Ok some recommendations... Cold Moon over Babylon by Michael McDowell. Picture of Evil by Graham Masterton. Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates Live Girls by Ray Garton The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon Son of the Endless Night by John Farris
Nice! Gotta check out some of those. The Woods Are Dark (extended cut) is far and away my favorite Laymon (though I'm admittedly not the biggest Laymon guy). Live Girls also owns.
Absolutely FANTASTIC review! I totally agree that Paperbacks feels like an extension on Too Much Horror Fiction. And I, too, was thinking how much I’d love a sequel. I didn’t think a book like this would ever happen but it did! So who knows, a sequel could happen. Or even just more books like this would be nice. LOVE Dolls! I haven’t seen I, Madman yet but have been thinking of blind buying it since Scream Factory put it out. Seems like my kind of movie! Awesome work, Adam!
Full disclosure: I, MADMAN is a picture where the concept/poster are stronger than the movie itself. But still: some cool images and the late-80s De Palma-lite set dressing is to die for. Thanks so much for the kind words about the video, loving yours.
I have this book coming next week. Looking forward to it. Two books I'd recommend would be Tread Softly by Richard Laymon and then another book originally published in 1980 called Ghost House written by Claew McNally.
Edit to fix name: Clare McNally. There were also, I believe, two sequels to it: Ghost House Revenge and Ghost Light. I'm pretty sure I read both of them but definitely liked the first installment the best. From what I remember as a kid it was a really captivating ghost story for a young mind that hadn't read a whole lot of horror at the time.
I have been waiting for Paperbacks From Hell for about 87 years. As (almost) always, I will be looking for it at the local bookstore first (after work on Saturday), and then, if they don't have it, I will order it from Amazon. Great video, as always.
Thanks, bud. Hope the local bookstore doesn't let you down! Usually pubs are pretty good getting stuff out before the actual street date, so I'm pulling for you.
I should have waited til the end to comment because now I have to say I, Madman is awesome!! So happy to see someone else recommending it. It’s one of my go to favs.
I haven't read it in years...but I recall liking Darkly, The Thunder by William W Johnstone a lot... it might be his 'best' horror novel.. mileage may vary for that one... but the one that I really need to go back to and really liked a lot was Resume with Monsters by William Browning Spencer which did come out in 1996...
+Eric Peterson I have never read a Johnstone book. I've been in the presence of a million of them, but never picked one up. Will have to do it eventually, some seem so wacky, but there's a history there.
Remember those great anthologies from the '80s and '90s? Etchison's Cutting Edge, Skipp & Spector's Book of the Dead, Razored Saddles, the Hot Blood series, Doug Winter's Prime Evil and Revelations, David J. Schow's Silver Scream...those were the days!
Not sure if it is considered a Horror novel but The Fan Club by Irving Wallace was one I read when I was way to young to be reading it and it creeped me out.....intrigued me too.
Ooh that looks really good! It's not quite 80s but one of my favourite paperbacks is The Big Book of Zombies. It's an anthology and it was the first Christmas present from my stepdad and I knew we were going to get along
Loved this book! I recommend Shaun Hutson's books. He is a pre-splatterpunk UK author that writes batshit crazy extreme horror. My favorite is Relics; it has one of the most nihilistic endings of all time.
Nos4A2 by Joe Hill, my fav I read in 2017, The Wrath And The Dawn , and The Rose And The Dagger by Renee Ahdieh, I will always keep them , because I feel in love with one's romance, and the others horror, altho The Wrath and the Dawn series was kind of horror too
Chainsaw terror by nick Blake (Shaun Hutson) found this whilst out and about and the book itself was interesting as prior to buying I had no idea it was a Shaun Hutson book who is my favourite writer, but then found it it was released then stopped printing, cut and released a few years later under a different title but the original is great! Channelling all the great video nasty stuff out of the 70s and 80s. Proper good stuff, also not a cheap book either last time I looked!
This looks amazing! I need to read more novels from those horror genres/years. I hope to get Paperback from Hell, but I'll have to see if it's already published here (or maybe I can buy the e book version!). Amazing review!
This was AWESOME! I'm meant to be getting Paperbacks from Hell from Penguin Random House Canada and after watching this I'm SO EAGER. The book itself is gorgeous and I'm so so excited that it's broken down into sub genres of the horror genre. I feel like I'm going to have so many new books to read after reading it. Don't judge - I haven't even read The Exorcism or Rosemary's Baby. Gah! I know! I know. So terrible. Thanks for an amazing review, Adam. I can always count on you to blow my TBR out of the water. :)
This might be sacrilege to some folks (rimshot), but... you kinda don't need to read THE EXORCIST. Deconstructions, reinventions, and Friedkin's superior adaptation have kind of rendered it dated (in my opinion, don't want people yelling at me), but I may not be the best judge: my last attempt at reading it was probably close to a decade ago and I made only the halfway mark.
Really? Okay well that's good to know! I have Rosemary's Baby on my ereader so maybe I'll start there and work my way through some of the other books that Paperbacks from Hell recommends! Thanks Adam!
Yeah, I much prefer reading on my kindle (makes reading before bed and moving apartments way easier), but there's still something to keeping a small collection...
I know this isn’t necessarily a “horror” book, but R.L Stine’s “Hide And Shriek” has stuck with me throughout the years. I read it a young age (maybe 3rd or 4th grade) and finished it in one day. Might just be nostalgia, but I love that book.
+Boltup 2101 oh Stine is horror all the way. I'm of the perfect age to have inhaled Goosebumps by the score. But I never extended out into his standalones or Fear Street.
I am very difficult to scare but Ramsey Campbell's book, Nazareth Hill really did it. It allows your imagination to play, which is scary stuff. lOL. Critics have referred to him as England's answer to Steven King and then some and hell yeah! Morticia
Highly recommend reading the Escape from Furnace because of how it always sends chills up my spine no matter how many times I’ve read the series and am surprised that not everyone knows about thus amazing series
Elementals by Michael McDowell & Dead White by Alan Ryan are excellent. I’m also a big fan of Michael McDowell’s Blackwater Series but I’m pretty sure it’s not for everyone.
I wish you talked about V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic her book was in there and I think it one of the greatest books of the 70's she is the only author who has been carried on by a GW the longest and most of her her books are still available
Thanks Adam for this recommendation! I immediately went out and got it, and now my reading list will keep me occupied for a year! And as a kid, I always appreciated the artwork of these paperbacks, but now I get to hear some of their names and the stories behind these artists. I understand now what you meant about the wise-ass tone, but it definitely was used in an appropriate and loving way. BTW, I've read Mercy House, Tribesmen, and Bottom Feeders, so far. With Halloween approaching, what do you recommend I read next of your oeuvre?
It is a dangerous book for our wallets! So glad you're reading (and hopefully enjoying!) my work! Thank you so much. As far as where to go next, you've read around my three biggest/most well-liked titles: Video Night, The Summer Job, and Exponential. Of those, Video Night is likely the most appropriate for this time of year. I hope you keep reading, and if you do please keep in mind that quick amazon reviews help keep me in business. THANKS!!!
I couldn’t finish this book. It was like a million references one after the other. It had its moments but overall it was an exhausting list of outrageous references.
Hi Adam. I own but not have read yet Video Night and Tribesman. Question, Why more specifically you no like The Rats? Me personally, I thought it was pretty good. A suggestion for a wonderful paperback has to be Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace. A totally well written blood bath of a revenge novel. A must read in my opinion. Thank You for the Recs.
+Broncanus Eat Them Alive sounds great/gonzo from the Hendrix write up. As far as The Rats goes... for me, just no real characters, an overdose of machismo, didnt click with the prose. I acknowledge that there wouldn't be a lot of my favorite thing without it, tho. Have you seen the (loose) adaptation DEADLY EYES? I kinda like it! And thank you so much for picking up the books, I really hope you enjoy.
Deadly Eyes! Na, I haven't seen it. If you're recommending it, it's a need to know for me. Yeah, Eat Them Alive you need to check it out let me know what you think. I'm trying to get Erik Smith from the Low Budget Review Show to do a review or at the very least read it.
It's def not the world's greatest movie. But it is certainly a giant rat movie featuring Scatman Crothers. Erik seems amenable to suggestions! Keep pushing.
you should check out centipede press for Michael McDowell books, i think is worth the price. tell me what you think on the other authors too for sale? anything else worth buying?
My pick would be Guy N Smith's The Sucking Pit - as much as I enjoyed the Crabs series, I have a real soft spot for that one. There need to be more stories about easily avoidable killer holes. :D
I think fans of weird horror need to (re)read CIPHER by Kathe Koja. It's brilliant. It was a mm pb original from the Dell Abyss line in the very early 90's...
Vampire child by Ruby Jean Jensen. She never got the attention I thought she should have had and I found all her books to be creepy if not flat out scary the titles a little clunky on this one but I remember finishing it all in one day as I couldn't put it down. Show the lady some love good Rider who as far as I know never got the attention
I read the Splatterpunk books by Skipp, Spector, Goodfellow, etc back in the day and love them. Now I have the kindle versions. Better than nothing but wish I still had the paperbacks. Pick up one called " Video Night " that's looks good.👍😜 . I keep buying Kindle books and I must stop. Bet I've got 250 books to read. Addictive personality sucks sometime.
good stuff man! on my channel i am keeping all the jason, Michael, Freddy, Final Destination and more out of print novels alive by doing narrations :) even some of the authors and actors from the movies have done intros and gotten involved. Thanks for doing your part in keeping horror literature alive!
Hello Adam, I would know if the essay is full of spoilers and if that can spoils the reading of the books he mentions. Also I would like to know if he talk about only mainstream horror or also some horror more authorial, maybe he provides a list of terrific book ?
The Amulet pissed me off. That woman didn't give a crap about her poor husband and she had no proof he was causing anything. Also The Elementals by McDowell.........woohoo!
Paperbacks from Hell is the reason I have such a wonderful, ever growing collection of horror paperbacks. Ah but my bank balance as these paperback prices soar higher and higher, lol. Great review!
HA! Carbs on the rampage sounds like a spin on the werewolf myth, where premenstrual women go bat-shit crazy once a month and kill themselves gluttoning chocolate and ice-cream!
This video made me so nostalgic and brought back floods of memories of why I fell in love with horror as a teen in the 80's. Those old covers drew me in every time and I'm gutted I didn't keep the dozens of cheap novels I used to own. Thank you so much, I was considering getting this book and now I'm totally sold :)
Not enough people talk about Dark Harvest, such a great (a short) book. I don't know if it counts because it because did win the Bram Stoker award
Oh it def counts. Awards are never much indicate sales/readership outside of the "in the know" crowd, even in Paperbacks from Hell he talks about a couple of bestsellers that (without reprints and/or movie adaptations) have kind of fallen out of public consciousness.
Good old book... "Audrey Rose" forgot the author.
"Suffer the Little Children" and "When the Wind Blows" by John Saul.
Just got my copy of this book! Can't wait to check it out. (I also grabbed one of the Valancourt editions, The Nest.)
The horror novel I think more people should read isn't from the '80s, but it does happen to be on that shelf behind you. Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own!
I love Horror fiction and especially the 70s to 1990s paperbacks as you talk about. I have some already and I just ordered the rare novelization of The Fog by Dennis Etchison. I recommend Dennis Etchison. And btw I will get my hands on that Paperbacks from Hell book. Looks VERY interesting, I could discover books I never heard of before.
Favorites from the period:
Shadowman by Dennis Etchison
The Shaft by David J. Schow
The Night Man by K. W. Jeter
The Nightwalker by Thomas Tessier
Already Dead: A Novel (The Joe Pitt Casebooks) by Charlie Huston. It's a series of paperback originals.
This is at the tail end of the era in question, but go with anything from Robert R. McCammon's peak years: Swan Song, Stinger or Wolf's Hour. Swan Song is especially brilliant.
I'm going to have to talk about some McCammon on the show soon, I know he's a fan favorite but I've never really been able to find a way into his work.
Try Wolf's Hour. Action-packed WWII spy novel . . . with werewolves. Can't go wrong there, can you?
I found this book at my local library and what stuck with me were the wild covers which screamed for the reader's attention on bookstore shelves (this was before the advent of Amazon)! I also liked the chapters on the "Satanic panic" of the 70's and early 80's. I would like to have some more information on what to look for when I go into a used bookstore.
Richard Laymon: Endless Night for me
I liked it. Very extreme but it didn't bother me as much as knowing this is what people think is scary. I thought it was great just not scary. The average person though. They wont get past the halfway mark
Ok some recommendations...
Cold Moon over Babylon by Michael McDowell.
Picture of Evil by Graham Masterton.
Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates
Live Girls by Ray Garton
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon
Son of the Endless Night by John Farris
Nice! Gotta check out some of those. The Woods Are Dark (extended cut) is far and away my favorite Laymon (though I'm admittedly not the biggest Laymon guy). Live Girls also owns.
If there had to be only one book recommendation I would go with 1972's Harvest Home from Thomas Tryon. Live it! Try and find a copy everybody!
Absolutely FANTASTIC review! I totally agree that Paperbacks feels like an extension on Too Much Horror Fiction. And I, too, was thinking how much I’d love a sequel. I didn’t think a book like this would ever happen but it did! So who knows, a sequel could happen. Or even just more books like this would be nice.
LOVE Dolls! I haven’t seen I, Madman yet but have been thinking of blind buying it since Scream Factory put it out. Seems like my kind of movie!
Awesome work, Adam!
Full disclosure: I, MADMAN is a picture where the concept/poster are stronger than the movie itself. But still: some cool images and the late-80s De Palma-lite set dressing is to die for.
Thanks so much for the kind words about the video, loving yours.
I love Robert McCammon. Ushers Passing and Swan Song are excellent!
Paperbacks from Hell must be in my life!!
Great video!
LauraLynne Usher's Passing is one of my faves!
Carrion comfort by Dan Simmons
I have this book coming next week. Looking forward to it. Two books I'd recommend would be Tread Softly by Richard Laymon and then another book originally published in 1980 called Ghost House written by Claew McNally.
Will have to check out Ghost House! This thread is turning into a real hellfire assault on my TBR pile.
Edit to fix name: Clare McNally. There were also, I believe, two sequels to it: Ghost House Revenge and Ghost Light. I'm pretty sure I read both of them but definitely liked the first installment the best. From what I remember as a kid it was a really captivating ghost story for a young mind that hadn't read a whole lot of horror at the time.
I have been waiting for Paperbacks From Hell for about 87 years. As (almost) always, I will be looking for it at the local bookstore first (after work on Saturday), and then, if they don't have it, I will order it from Amazon.
Great video, as always.
Thanks, bud. Hope the local bookstore doesn't let you down! Usually pubs are pretty good getting stuff out before the actual street date, so I'm pulling for you.
I should have waited til the end to comment because now I have to say I, Madman is awesome!! So happy to see someone else recommending it. It’s one of my go to favs.
I haven't read it in years...but I recall liking Darkly, The Thunder by William W Johnstone a lot... it might be his 'best' horror novel.. mileage may vary for that one...
but the one that I really need to go back to and really liked a lot was Resume with Monsters by William Browning Spencer which did come out in 1996...
+Eric Peterson I have never read a Johnstone book. I've been in the presence of a million of them, but never picked one up. Will have to do it eventually, some seem so wacky, but there's a history there.
Nightmare Child by Daniel Ransom is great -- it features in the book too, I think!
Read Ghoul by Michael Slade, recommended by Alice Cooper and Bruce Dickenson.
Remember those great anthologies from the '80s and '90s? Etchison's Cutting Edge, Skipp & Spector's Book of the Dead, Razored Saddles, the Hot Blood series, Doug Winter's Prime Evil and Revelations, David J. Schow's Silver Scream...those were the days!
‘Blue World’
‘Wolf’s Hour’
both by Robert R. Mccammon
Not sure if it is considered a Horror novel but The Fan Club by Irving Wallace was one I read when I was way to young to be reading it and it creeped me out.....intrigued me too.
Horror is in the eye of the beholder. If it creeped you out/has creepy elements, we're counting it!
Great video man! Just saw Bone Tommahawk....holy shit I did not expect that. What an absolutely brilliantly paced and insanely violent masterpiece
It rocks socks!
Just found this channel can't wait to go through the rest... Great video
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoy.
Ooh that looks really good! It's not quite 80s but one of my favourite paperbacks is The Big Book of Zombies. It's an anthology and it was the first Christmas present from my stepdad and I knew we were going to get along
Loved this book!
I recommend Shaun Hutson's books. He is a pre-splatterpunk UK author that writes batshit crazy extreme horror. My favorite is Relics; it has one of the most nihilistic endings of all time.
I've got to get Relics. I have SLUGS and then the (semi) recent Hammer tie-in he did for TWINS OF EVIL.
Nos4A2 by Joe Hill, my fav I read in 2017, The Wrath And The Dawn , and The Rose And The Dagger by Renee Ahdieh, I will always keep them , because I feel in love with one's romance, and the others horror, altho The Wrath and the Dawn series was kind of horror too
My favourite obscure horror book is Sanctuary by Glenn Chandler
Nice review - Valencourt stuff looks really exciting, hard to get hold of in UK tho, it seems... a kind benefactor sent me PB from Hell tho!
Chainsaw terror by nick Blake (Shaun Hutson) found this whilst out and about and the book itself was interesting as prior to buying I had no idea it was a Shaun Hutson book who is my favourite writer, but then found it it was released then stopped printing, cut and released a few years later under a different title but the original is great! Channelling all the great video nasty stuff out of the 70s and 80s. Proper good stuff, also not a cheap book either last time I looked!
This looks amazing! I need to read more novels from those horror genres/years. I hope to get Paperback from Hell, but I'll have to see if it's already published here (or maybe I can buy the e book version!).
Amazing review!
This was AWESOME! I'm meant to be getting Paperbacks from Hell from Penguin Random House Canada and after watching this I'm SO EAGER. The book itself is gorgeous and I'm so so excited that it's broken down into sub genres of the horror genre. I feel like I'm going to have so many new books to read after reading it. Don't judge - I haven't even read The Exorcism or Rosemary's Baby. Gah! I know! I know. So terrible. Thanks for an amazing review, Adam. I can always count on you to blow my TBR out of the water. :)
This might be sacrilege to some folks (rimshot), but... you kinda don't need to read THE EXORCIST. Deconstructions, reinventions, and Friedkin's superior adaptation have kind of rendered it dated (in my opinion, don't want people yelling at me), but I may not be the best judge: my last attempt at reading it was probably close to a decade ago and I made only the halfway mark.
Really? Okay well that's good to know! I have Rosemary's Baby on my ereader so maybe I'll start there and work my way through some of the other books that Paperbacks from Hell recommends! Thanks Adam!
This looks AMAZINNG!!!! I basically need this in my life. I've been getting some of these on my kindle but those paperbacks are awesome!!
Yeah, I much prefer reading on my kindle (makes reading before bed and moving apartments way easier), but there's still something to keeping a small collection...
I know this isn’t necessarily a “horror” book, but R.L Stine’s “Hide And Shriek” has stuck with me throughout the years. I read it a young age (maybe 3rd or 4th grade) and finished it in one day. Might just be nostalgia, but I love that book.
+Boltup 2101 oh Stine is horror all the way. I'm of the perfect age to have inhaled Goosebumps by the score. But I never extended out into his standalones or Fear Street.
I am very difficult to scare but Ramsey Campbell's book, Nazareth Hill really did it. It allows your imagination to play, which is scary stuff. lOL. Critics have referred to him as England's answer to Steven King and then some and hell yeah!
Morticia
I love Campbell. THE INFLUENCE is prob my fav of his novels I've read, but his short work is so good.
Highly recommend reading the Escape from Furnace because of how it always sends chills up my spine no matter how many times I’ve read the series and am surprised that not everyone knows about thus amazing series
Elementals by Michael McDowell & Dead White by Alan Ryan are excellent. I’m also a big fan of Michael McDowell’s Blackwater Series but I’m pretty sure it’s not for everyone.
I’ve only read his AMULET. But I loved that. And have the audiobook of Blackwater, so I’ll have to crank that up soon.
I wish you talked about V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic her book was in there and I think it one of the greatest books of the 70's she is the only author who has been carried on by a GW the longest and most of her her books are still available
Any book by Ruby Jean Jensen
Had to pull a google search, but I know those covers! Where to start?
Adam Cesare I recommend Victoria from creepy dolls and The Chain Letter
Baby Dolly is great!
Cabal and Books of Blood both are written by Clive Barker.
some of the all time best
Thanks Adam for this recommendation! I immediately went out and got it, and now my reading list will keep me occupied for a year! And as a kid, I always appreciated the artwork of these paperbacks, but now I get to hear some of their names and the stories behind these artists. I understand now what you meant about the wise-ass tone, but it definitely was used in an appropriate and loving way.
BTW, I've read Mercy House, Tribesmen, and Bottom Feeders, so far. With Halloween approaching, what do you recommend I read next of your oeuvre?
It is a dangerous book for our wallets!
So glad you're reading (and hopefully enjoying!) my work! Thank you so much. As far as where to go next, you've read around my three biggest/most well-liked titles: Video Night, The Summer Job, and Exponential. Of those, Video Night is likely the most appropriate for this time of year. I hope you keep reading, and if you do please keep in mind that quick amazon reviews help keep me in business. THANKS!!!
Glad to hear Vallaincourt getting props for all the right reasons. Great channel you've got here.
I was on the fence about purchasing this. Not anymore, I've just ordered it. Thank you :)
Prey by Graham Masterton is my go-to underrated paperback.
I recently bought this book and it is amazing, love that book, pictures are incredible and very good content.
I couldn’t finish this book. It was like a million references one after the other. It had its moments but overall it was an exhausting list of outrageous references.
Hi Adam. I own but not have read yet Video Night and Tribesman. Question, Why more specifically you no like The Rats? Me personally, I thought it was pretty good. A suggestion for a wonderful paperback has to be Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace. A totally well written blood bath of a revenge novel. A must read in my opinion. Thank You for the Recs.
+Broncanus Eat Them Alive sounds great/gonzo from the Hendrix write up.
As far as The Rats goes... for me, just no real characters, an overdose of machismo, didnt click with the prose. I acknowledge that there wouldn't be a lot of my favorite thing without it, tho. Have you seen the (loose) adaptation DEADLY EYES? I kinda like it!
And thank you so much for picking up the books, I really hope you enjoy.
Deadly Eyes! Na, I haven't seen it. If you're recommending it, it's a need to know for me. Yeah, Eat Them Alive you need to check it out let me know what you think. I'm trying to get Erik Smith from the Low Budget Review Show to do a review or at the very least read it.
It's def not the world's greatest movie. But it is certainly a giant rat movie featuring Scatman Crothers.
Erik seems amenable to suggestions! Keep pushing.
you should check out centipede press for Michael McDowell books, i think is worth the price. tell me what you think on the other authors too for sale? anything else worth buying?
Son of the Endless Night by John Farris
The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot
My pick would be Guy N Smith's The Sucking Pit - as much as I enjoyed the Crabs series, I have a real soft spot for that one. There need to be more stories about easily avoidable killer holes. :D
Oh man, I'm sold.
I am pumped that someone else besides me has read that book! Did you read Witch Spell?
I'm slowly making my way through his non-crab books at the moment. Just finished Phobia, might check out Witch Spell next though!
I think fans of weird horror need to (re)read CIPHER by Kathe Koja. It's brilliant. It was a mm pb original from the Dell Abyss line in the very early 90's...
Oh, and DARK GODS by T.E.D. Klein, from the 80's.
Hendrix gives most of the last chapter over to Dell Abyss, it's great.
Nice! His blog has been a strain on my already overloaded TBR pile for many years, now...
Vampire child by Ruby Jean Jensen. She never got the attention I thought she should have had and I found all her books to be creepy if not flat out scary the titles a little clunky on this one but I remember finishing it all in one day as I couldn't put it down. Show the lady some love good Rider who as far as I know never got the attention
I read the Splatterpunk books by Skipp, Spector, Goodfellow, etc back in the day and love them. Now I have the kindle versions. Better than nothing but wish I still had the paperbacks.
Pick up one called " Video Night " that's looks good.👍😜 . I keep buying Kindle books and I must stop. Bet I've
got 250 books to read.
Addictive personality sucks sometime.
good stuff man! on my channel i am keeping all the jason, Michael, Freddy, Final Destination and more out of print novels alive by doing narrations :) even some of the authors and actors from the movies have done intros and gotten involved. Thanks for doing your part in keeping horror literature alive!
WOW! What a cool project. Just subscribed, excited to check out.
I loved Dark Advent by Brian Hodge
The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison
Hello Adam, I would know if the essay is full of spoilers and if that can spoils the reading of the books he mentions. Also I would like to know if he talk about only mainstream horror or also some horror more authorial, maybe he provides a list of terrific book ?
For some reason, in this video Adam, you look like Cassidy in the Preacher tv show.
Live Girls by ray garton
Anything by Richard Laymon
The Retreat by Jerrold Mundis
Awesome. Bought it! Thank you!
Dead White by Alan Ryan
Swan Song. Robert McCammon
The Amulet pissed me off. That woman didn't give a crap about her poor husband and she had no proof he was causing anything. Also The Elementals by McDowell.........woohoo!
The Dracula Tape. And the subsequent series.
Incubus by Ray Russell
Paperbacks from Hell is the reason I have such a wonderful, ever growing collection of horror paperbacks. Ah but my bank balance as these paperback prices soar higher and higher, lol. Great review!
Michelle Remembers
Thank you going to pick it up.
You won't be disappointed, Jesse.
Carnosaur by Harry Adam knight. It’s fucking amazing! Dinosaurs on the loose eating people in the English country side, doesent get much better!
The Manitou
The Hunger by Striber
+The2ManFreakshow nice. Just passed over that the other day for one of his books about the greys. Will need to go back.
Carbs on the rampage
+Kevin Clark carbs, crabs: both are dangerous!
HA! Carbs on the rampage sounds like a spin on the werewolf myth, where premenstrual women go bat-shit crazy once a month and kill themselves gluttoning chocolate and ice-cream!
The keep. F Paul Wilson
Brain Lumley.
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One cringeworthy thing I noticed about some books from the 70s and 80s was that LGBTQ+ people were sometimes used as meat for the monster. Not good.