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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120 books

Creature Features

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Katy
A Dowry of Blood
The Girl Who Cried Monster
Thin Air
Frankenstein
Krampus: The Yule Lord
30 Days of Night, Vol. 1
Born of Man and Woman

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337 books

Short Stories

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Katy
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Kiss Kiss
The Weird and the Eerie
Her Body and Other Parties
White is for Witching
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

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206 books

Adult Nonfiction

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Anna Tschetter
Lost in Shangri-la: Escape from a Hidden World, A True Story
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Packing for Mars
Arguably
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Mortality
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144 books

Read In 2020

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Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Girls
Magic for Liars
The Line Tender
The Hand on the Wall
Gender Queer

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56 books

Physical Tbr

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It Happened One Summer
Pet Sematary
11/22/63
'Salem's Lot
The Secret History
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Dracula

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539 books

American

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secondbestgirl
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Bright Lights, Big City
Model Behaviour
Philomena

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257 books

Horror

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secondbestgirl
My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis
The Raven
The Lottery
美鶴木夜石は怖がらない

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148 books

History

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secondbestgirl
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
Shutting out the sun
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

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838 books

Autor Männlich

Cthulhu
Eva
Maelstrom
At the Mountains of Madness
The Call of Cthulhu
The Prophet
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1984

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61 books

Horror

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Mathieu Fortier
Twelve Nights at Rotter House
The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved
American Psycho
Imaginary Friend
House of Shadows
The Institute
Clown in a Cornfield

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75 books

2019

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Travis West
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Oryx and Crake
Boom Town
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
The Attention Merchants
The Internet of Garbage

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80 books

History

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Travis West
Vampire Forensics
Fantasyland
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans!
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Boom Town
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400 books

Non Fiction

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Courtney
We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Rocket Boys
Gus Grissom
Cosmos
America Back on Track

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65 books

2021

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Courtney
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Beach Read
Jim Henson: The Biography
Across the Green Grass Fields
The Book of Flying
The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships
The House in the Cerulean Sea

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225 books

Kindle Library

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Anna Tschetter
Kushiel's Chosen
Cibola Burn
Annihilation
Opal
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

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390 books

Owned

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Anna Tschetter
Breathless
Dead Girls
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books
Certain Dark Things
Caliban's War
Dawn

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46 books

Wishlist

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Joe
The Worst Ronin
Sunhead
Thirsty: A Novel
Death's Country
Children of Anguish and Anarchy
All This and More
A Sorceress Comes to Call

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477 books

Adult

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Amity
The Stars' Tennis Balls
The Cabin at the End of the World
Of Mice and Men
Fahrenheit 451
The Crucible
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
The Stranger

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170 books

Own

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Amity
The Vegetarian
The Wasp Factory
Sabriel
A Stitch in Time
Night Film
Romeo and Juliet
Pride and Prejudice

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132 books

Nonfiction

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Amity
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon
A Boy and a Jaguar
It's Perfectly Normal
Reference and Information Services
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

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286 books

Horror

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Amity
The Midnight Club
Our Crooked Hearts
Firestarter
When I Arrived at the Castle
Malorie
Haunted
The Pallbearers Club: A Novel

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5 books

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Rae
Sadie
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
Mexican Gothic

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2,475 books

Horror

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The Troop
Penpal
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
The Living Dead
Ghost Camera
The Merciless

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470 books

Nonfic

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Destiny (howling libraries)Supporter
Bad Feminist
Wicca
The complete idiot's guide to wicca and witchcraft
All the Words Are Yours
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
We Should All Be Feminists
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores

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791 books

History

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Spiritomb
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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