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Named to Amazons Best of the Year 2017 in Humor & Entertainment List An affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and 80s Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemarys Baby . Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine , plus many more whove faded into obscurity. Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.

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Copyright 2017 by Grady Hendrix All rights reserved Except as authorized under - photo 1
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Copyright 2017 by Grady Hendrix

All rights reserved. Except as authorized under U.S. Copyright law, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication number: 2016957818

ISBN9781594749810

Ebook ISBN9781594749827

Ebook design adapted from printed book design by Timothy ODonnell

Production management by John J. McGurk

Full publisher and artist credits appear . All illustrations in this book are copyrighted by their respective copyright holders (according to the original copyright or publication date) and are reproduced for historical purposes. Any omission or incorrect information should be transmitted to the author or publisher, so it can be rectified in any future edition of this book.

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HAIL SATAN CREEPY KIDS WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK REAL ESTATE NIGHTMARES - photo 4
HAIL, SATAN
CREEPY KIDS
WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK
REAL ESTATE NIGHTMARES
WEIRD SCIENCE
GOTHIC AND ROMANTIC
INHUMANOIDS
SPLATTERPUNKS, SERIAL KILLERS, AND SUPER CREEPS
INTRODUCTION Y ears ago at a science-fiction convention I was flipping - photo 5
INTRODUCTION

Y ears ago at a science-fiction convention, I was flipping through the dollar boxes at a dealers table when this Hector Garrido cover for The Little People brought my eyeballs to a screeching halt. I wasnt a book collectorI didnt even know who Hector Garrido wasbut I knew what this was: the Mona Lisa of paperback covers. I bought it so fast my fingers blistered. I never expected to actually read the bookbut three months later, I fished it out of my To Be Read pile and cracked it open.

I knew John Christophers name from his Tripods science-fiction series, which had been serialized as a comic strip in the back of Boys Life magazine. But this 1966 Avon novel was stronger stuff. In it, a gorgeous secretary inherits an Irish castle from a distant relative and converts it into a B&B to show her patronizing lawyer/fianc that she can stand on her own. On opening weekend, the house is full of guests: an Irish dreamboat alcoholic, two bickering Americans with a hot-to-trot teenage daughter, and a married couple who met in a concentration camp, where he was a guard and she was a prisoner.

But some uninvited guests are lurking in the basement: the Gestapochauns.

The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. Shortly after we meet them, the author lets us know that these are not just any Nazi leprechauns. These are psychic Nazi leprechauns who enjoy S&M, are covered with scars from pleasure/pain sessions with their creator, were trained as sex slaves for full-sized human men, and are actually stunted fetuses taken from Jewish concentration camp victims. And one of them is named Adolph.

While all this information is being hosed into the readers eyes like a geyser of crazy, this book rockets from 0 to 60 on the loony meter and overdelivers on practically every level. From the moment the Gestapochauns play a mean practical joke on the old Irish washerwoman who works in the kitchen to the moment that the lawyer/fianc realizes exactly what the Nazi leprechaun named Greta is up to in his pants, its one fifty-page freakout thats firing on every cylinder.

The books original hardback cover by Paul Bacon featured merely a tiny foot - photo 6

The books original hardback cover by Paul Bacon featured merely a tiny foot.

Sadly, the Gestapochauns are completely absent from the last thirty pages of the book. The author devoted the remaining pages to a discrete psychic battle that takes place in the dreams of the non-psychic, non-Nazi, non-leprechaun members of the cast. In other words, the Boring People. Yet Christopher and his Gestapochauns fly so high and so far in those middle passages that they practically touch the sun.

No matter what book I read next, the Gestaopchauns clung to my gray folds, whispering to me in my sleep: What else has been forgotten? After some late-night googling brought me to Will Erricksons Too Much Horror Fiction blog, I blacked out. One year later, I woke up squatting in the middle of an aisle at Sullivans Trade-a-Book in the heart of South Carolina, surrounded by piles of musty horror paperbacks. Apparently I was buying them. Apparently I was reading them. Apparently I was addicted.

The books I love were published during the horror paperback boom that started in the late 60s, after Rosemarys Baby hit the big time. Their reign of terror ended in the early 90s, after the success of Silence of the Lambs convinced marketing departments to scrape the word horror off spines and glue on the word thriller instead. Like The Little People, these books had their flaws, but they offered such wonders. Whens the last time you read about Jewish monster brides, sex witches from the fourth dimension, flesh-eating moths, homicidal mimes, or golems stalking Long Island? Divorced from current trends in publishing, these out-of-print paperbacks feel like a breath of fresh air. Get ready to meet some of my new favorite writers: Elizabeth Engstrom. Joan Samson. Bari Wood. The Lovecraftian apocalypse of Brian McNaughton. The deeply strange alternate universe of William W. Johnstone. Brenda Brown Canary, whose The Voice of the Clown is one of the few books to actually make my jaw drop. Youll hear the dark whisperings of Ken Greenhall, the gothic Southern twang of Michael McDowell, the clipped British accent of James Herbert, the visionary chants of Kathe Koja, and the clinical drone of Michael Blumlein.

The book youre holding is a road map to the horror Narnia I found hidden in the darkest recesses of remote bookstoresa weird, wild, wonderful world that feels totally alien today, and not just because of the trainloads of killer clowns. In these books from the 70s and 80s, doctors swap smokes with patients while going over their ultrasounds, housewives are diagnosed as having too much imagination, African Americans are sometimes called negroes, and parents swoon in terror at the suggestion that they have a test tube baby.

These books, written to be sold in drugstores and supermarkets, werent worried about causing offense and possess a jocular, straightforward, lets get it on attitude toward sex. Many were published before the AIDS epidemic, at the height of the Swinging 70s, and theyre unapologetic about the idea that adults dont need much of an excuse to take off their clothes and hop into bed.

Though they may be consigned to dusty dollar boxes, these stories are timeless in the way that truly matters: they will not bore you. Thrown into the rough-and-tumble marketplace, the writers learned they had to earn every readers attention. And so they delivered books that move, hit hard, take risks, go for broke. Its not just the covers that hook your eyeballs. Its the writing, which respects no rules except one: always be interesting.

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