Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Paperbacks from Hell

The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

By
Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix
2017 • 254 pages

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91 books

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StephenMcC
Stephen McClurg
1984
Endgame and ACT Without Words
A Perfect Vacuum
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
I Am Legend
Pride and Prejudice

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59 books

Humor

StephenMcC
Stephen McClurg
Anguished English
Story of the Eye
Catch-22
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Candide
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural

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14 books

Reading

StephenMcC
Stephen McClurg
Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The hero with a thousand faces
My Reading Life
Don't Know Much About Literature

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63 books

Dnf

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Lauren
Murder at an Irish Christmas
Plum Island
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
Midnight clear
Mistletoe and Murder
To Walk a Pagan Path
The Modern Guide to Witchcraft

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1,780 books

Own

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Jerilynn
Wrong Place Wrong Time
You're Invited
Reckless Girls
The Escape Room
The Island
The Plot
Hidden Pictures

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104 books

Nonfic

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Mark Schiffer
The Purple Diaries : Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
Last Days of Roger Federer
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
Sounds Fake But Okay
When Books Went to War
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
Dreamer of Dune

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60 books

Media History

Amateria66
Mark Schiffer
Woke Up This Morning
Flung Out of Space
Lon Chaney Speaks
Sellout
Dreamer of Dune
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

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Haunt
Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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381 books

Darkling

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Haunt
Beyond the Body Farm
Danse Macabre
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
Evil Genes
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The Great Mortality

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113 books

Buy

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Haunt
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún
The Book of Lost Tales, Part II
A Clockwork Orange
Mountain Garden
The Art Of The Lord Of The Rings By J.r.r. Tolkien
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Jasmine Becket-Griffith Coloring Book: A Fantasy Art Adventure

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58 books

Metalit

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Haunt
The Swerve
Ella Minnow Pea
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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10 books

Nf Essays Memoirs

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Koren
Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes: Stories of Tidiness, Self-Esteem and Other Things I Gave Up On
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Bento Box in the Heartland
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice

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8 books

Nf Media Studies

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Koren
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Monster, She Wrote
Paperback Crush
Religions of Star Trek
Fic
Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters

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294 books

United States

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pickles
Ninefox Gambit
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
A Book of Common Prayer
Girlhood

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553 books

Non Fiction

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Gender Failure
Work
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats

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52 books

Horror

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Firestarter
None Shall Sleep
The Haunting of Hill House
Dinner
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
The Bunker Diary
The Turn Of The Screw

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3 books

Pulp

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pickles
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

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1 book

Publishing

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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

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106 books

Nonfiction

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Hillary
What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
Love, Pamela
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Paris: The Memoir
Film for Her
Lust & Wonder
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

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55 books

Favorite Authors

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Hillary
The Fragile Threads of Power
A Darker Shade of Magic
A House With Good Bones
Kingdom of the Feared
Rosemary and Rue
The Near Witch
This Strange Way of Dying

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27 books

2017

sailormelody
Hillary
A Conjuring of Light
Kill Creek
Devil's Call
The Bear and the Nightingale
Allegedly
Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care
Cursed Bunny

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184 books

Cozy Horror And Fluff

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Secret Garden
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
My Brilliant Friend
Sarah, plain and tall
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The House in the Cerulean Sea

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521 books

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Cherryplums
Katy
Lonesome Dove
Within These Walls
The Opposite of a Person
Devil House
The Butterfly Garden
The Neighbors
Howls From the Wreckage: An Anthology of Disaster Horror

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404 books

Sci Fi Fantasy

Cherryplums
Katy
The Gone World
Contagion
The Eye of the Heron
The Day Of The Triffids
The War of the Worlds
Agent of Vega & Other Stories

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388 books

Miscellaneous Lore Or Memoir

Cherryplums
Katy
Literary Rogues
From Girls to Grrrlz
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
FOUND Polaroids
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