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This is a great book about the history of horror novels & Grady Hendrix really did his homework. I listened to it on audio but also got a physical copy of the book to see the tons of book covers throughout. So fun! 5⭐️

#HauntedShelf
#FrightClub
#TBRread
#Horror
#booksaboutbooks
#audiobook

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/HjyHcEDsYnQ

Enjoy!

Just as much fun as you might expect from a book about horror fiction from the 70s and 80s written by Grady Hendrix. And those covers!

This just made me want to go to old bookstores and find 80s horror books! They all sounded like a wild ride!

Finished listening to it when getting to and from Octoberfest yesterday

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#MischiefandMayhem #Scarathlon
@PuddleJumper

=21 points

Got to craving gothic novels and tropes again, so after reading pulplibrarian‘s thread on Twitter, I pulled up the section in this lovely book. Now diving deep into Michael McDowell‘s The Flood!

This was super interesting. I like to slide a NF selection into my #AuthorAMonth when I can. I actually cannot believe he read all of these. And it's pretty snarky so totally on brand for Mr Hendrix.

@Soubhiville

So many #creatures on the cover of this book! #scarathlondailyprompts #scarathlon2022 @Clwojick

Dying. Y‘all. I get to meet Grady Hendrix tonight! #fangirling #gradyhendrix

#screaming #gradyhendrix #fangirling

#JulyJam

3 books from my shelves for #PaperbackBkDay

Sound check for my friend Grady Hendrix at Scares That Care AuthorCon. I am here early because I am in my wheelchair, so I have been shouting “helpful” suggestions from the back of the audiotorium. Now listening to Led Zeppelin while waiting for #paperbacksfromhell to start. I‘ve seen a early version of the show in a small art gallery in Charlottesville; looking forward to this grand, new and improved version. RIP V. C. Andrews.

I borrowed this on a lark, thinking the cover art inside would be worth a 15-minute scan. Five days later 😵‍💫…..I finished reading the last page, with a long list of ‘70s and ‘80s horror paperbacks now penciled into my TBR list. Im hooked. Another contributing factor to my feverish TBR adds is Will Errickson‘s TooMuchHorrorFiction.blogspot.com. Check it out, it‘s fantastic.

#unpopularopinion - I know - it was interesting and fun if you are a fan of horror and some parts really fun and well written (the part about raising possessed children especially), looking at the covers of the novels really interesting, but some parts read too much like laundry lists for me -

Another book for #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Make a great day everyone - 🙂

Terror toddles on two chubby legs!

Fun little trip down pulp horrors hay day. Remembered quite a few titles I forgot and added a couple of the gems from this retrospective. Grady was perfect for this well versed in the subject but doesn‘t treat it reverence. You got to laugh at some of this, an ultra serious tone would have been wrong here.

I forgot what it was like to sift through the trash to find the garbage!

Appropriate for spooky season reading and pretty much the only book I‘ve been able to read this month. Paperbacks gives a brief, funny, and intelligent history of the Horror genre from the 1970‘s & 1980‘s. The book is worth it in cover art and TBR fodder alone; I‘ve added basically every title mentioned to my list. Happy Halloween, Blessed Samhain, Felíz Día de Los Muertos ????????‍♀️???‍♀️????‍♂️??‍♀️?‍♂️?‍♂️

According to Grady Hendrix‘ Instagram, we can look forward to a new release, How to Sell a Haunted House, on 7/12/22. I hope he‘s not pulling our leg! 🦵 😍🤩🙌

“Little red riding hood is a ... proto-slasher.“

Grady Hendrix just said this in an interview and it blew may brains out! He was talking about how our culture is fixated on dead women and it rang so true. What is that about??

#fantasticstrangelings #scarathlon2021 #screamathon

Little book haul from last night

I forgot to do the game but I think this is a solid first week! #scarathlon2021 #teamhendrix @StayCurious

Michael McDowell was an Alabama native whom Stephen King once called “the finest writer of paperback originals in America,” and his Blackwater series is the One Hundred Years of Solitude of the genre. He‘d be considered one of the great lights of Southern literature if his books dealt with things other than woman-eating hogs, men marrying amphibians, and vengeance-seeking lesbian wrestlers wearing opium-laced golden fingernails.

Practically prehensile tentacles 🤣

My partner is at Bucket of Blood bookstore in Chicago and sent me this. I‘m both so happy for him and incredibly jealous. 🖤

Ive been wanting to read this for awhile, I have a fascination with these crazy books i saw growing up

This St. Jordi‘s Day, I received this wonderful surprise! 🌹📚😻

Does Satanic Panic ring a bell for you young-n's of the 70s and 80s? Are you not a horror fan? Does reading splatterpunk books turn you off?...then this isn't the book for you. But if all that sounds like the best blast from the past you could imagine then your dreams have come true!

A big thanks to @BookwormOfTheDamned for the recommendation. Check out his horror book reviews they are the bomb.
https://youtu.be/oM5x21MPnTU

#JoyousJanuary @Andrew65 Fun read! My “scary” read tastes run more to the gothic & psychological thrillers. I‘ve only read a few of the books mentioned. But I grew up in the heyday of paperback cover art and love it in other genres. I spent the summer of ‘81 reading the neighbor‘s copy of Helter Skelter & Harlequin romance collection. If they had been into horror rather than romance my reading tastes today might be very different.

Out of the 102 books I read over 2020, above are my twenty favorites.

#20best2020

An overview of '70s and '80s horror fiction, full of pictures of book covers and commentary of the funny, campy and horrific books that marked a new publishing genre and filled the shelves in those decades of horror fiction publication.

Don't know how long it took to compile and create this book but I will say something, it has definitely been researched and thought out well.

I've also stacked a lot of books because of this! 🤘

Horror fan must!

I should have posted this sooner, but did anyone else watch the live Grady Hendrix event?? So much fun.

#gradyhendrix

Not quite what I was expecting. It‘s more of a catalog of horror books than a cohesive history of and comment on the genre. Still, there is enough content to enjoy it. If nothing else, you‘ll expand your TBR.

This just got interesting 🤗♥️👍🏻

I think this book is brilliant. I loved the witty descriptions and laughed out loud numerous times. Although most of the books mentioned weren‘t things I‘m interested in reading, I did add a few to my TBR list.

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3508265332

Some of my faves....sadly some of Eric Maria Remarque‘s best are missing from the pile thanks to loaning them out and buying books on Kindle

Jaws is, in case you didn‘t know, “a novel about a stressed-out great white shark suffering from portion control issues.”

According to Grady Hendrix‘s summary, at least. 😂

So I finished Paperbacks from Hell yesterday and finished rereading The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter today for book club.

I'm not done reading for the #24B4Monday readathon but decided to take a break to watch some Top Chef with the husband this afternoon.

I've been reading a lot of horror, but now I'm wondering if I should try to read something totally different. 🤔

HWA and The Last Bookstore are currently doing the first of a new author panel series called Skeleton Hour. This one is about throwback horror from the 70s-90s and features Grady Hendrix and Stephen Graham Jones. So cool!

I managed to get a couple screenshots from the video I mentioned in my previous post and I really want everyone to see how cute Delilah was when she picked the books!

I was handed four new books in bed this morning, which is a very nice way to start the day. It‘s my birthday so this wasn‘t random. It would be nice if my husband handed me brand new books every morning, though. 😂

#JuneReads #JuneStats

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have enjoyed every single second of this book. Many books I haven‘t heard of, some are old favourites and some were my entry in to the world of horror fiction. Hendrix relates the nuances within the genre to the socioeconomic trends of the 70s and 80s, praises the vital work of the artists who created so many eye catching covers and gloriously revels in the bizarre. A must read for all horror fans.

This 👆🏻!!!!! This is my early teens, Point Horror, Christopher Pike and R. L. Stein, where my love of horror began.

Like most of what Grady Hendrix writes, this is hilarious and snarky and a great overview of the best and worst of horror. My favorite quote is: “Every fetus eventually turns into a child, and, as so many wise men and women in the horror paperback industry know, terror toddles on two chubby legs.“ Kids are scary, yo. I really want to go to some seedy used bookstore and scoop up a bunch of these!

🖤it‘s gorgeous😭 i finally splurged and got this book i‘ve been wanting to get my hands on about 70s/80s horror fiction, the cover art for these books are so awesome 😍🔪⚰️🪓🔪

So this week I bought another bookshelf. I was in the search for almost a year with money my friends gave for my birthday (is in February) so first was the car with books and then this last one. Because a reader never has enough space for books... #bookshelf

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Thanks @LeahBergen for recommending this fantastic trip through the weird world of 70s and 80s horror books. I think Hendrix made a critical decision for this project: even though there's some attention to why certain themes became popular and publishing industry trends, the crazy plot summaries are the focus. And the audio narrator reminded me of a movie trailer voice for heartwarming family films, which worked really well for some reason 😁