Love these ever since I first saw them on my first trip to France in 2006; the best part is how the author bio begins, "Reclus, malade, misanthrope et éminemment matérialiste…", which translates as "Reclusive, ill, misanthropic and eminently materialistic…"—only in France does that description work as a selling point.
I Love love love the 1st, 3rd, and 5th covers to the point I may buy the bastards off of Amazon.fr just to scan to posters. I wonder who did the art? Good post, as usual.
Too Much Horror Fiction collects and reviews vintage horror literature (mostly from the 1960s to the early 1990s) and celebrates its resplendent paperback cover art. Welcome!
With Grady Hendrix, I co-wrote the Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF '70s AND '80s HORROR FICTION (2017) from Quirk Books. I also own a couple thousand vintage paperbacks most of which are horror but also SF, crime, & general fiction. Always adding more to the home library!
Looking for a forgotten horror novel or short story? Remember the paperback cover art but not the title or author? Send me an email at toomuchhorrorfiction[at]gmail.com describing it and if I don't know it, one of my readers might!
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Love these ever since I first saw them on my first trip to France in 2006; the best part is how the author bio begins, "Reclus, malade, misanthrope et éminemment matérialiste…", which translates as "Reclusive, ill, misanthropic and eminently materialistic…"—only in France does that description work as a selling point.
Dan, I love your comment, LOL!
I Love love love the 1st, 3rd, and 5th covers to the point I may buy the bastards off of Amazon.fr just to scan to posters. I wonder who did the art? Good post, as usual.
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