Too Much Horror Fiction: Fiend Club

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Fiend Club

6 comments:

Lou said...: I Used to Love Guy N. Smith's books...They were so bad and exploitative. I used to just assume it was an obvious psuedonym for someone who had given themselves license to be as rashy as possible.; October 1, 2015 at 2:26 PM
Will Errickson said...: He proudly writes under his own name!; October 1, 2015 at 3:49 PM
Shane said...: You forgot Richard Laymon's 'Fiends' collection, which I've just picked up from the library.; October 2, 2015 at 4:52 AM
Ron Clinton said...: Those are fiendishly cool covers. Well, the Richard Powers cover for the Beaumont collection, anyhow...

The cover for the Smith novel -- which also isn't too bad, I suppose -- looks very familiar...I believe it was also used for a Year's Best pb collection.; October 2, 2015 at 9:09 AM
Ron Clinton said...: In fact, here is the Year's Best cover:

https://i0.wp.com/i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd95/bloodlettingpress/1-802_zpsbb624c72.jpg

Heck, looks like you can even buy prints of it, if one was so inclined:

http://www.lesedwards.com/galleries/vintage/the-fiend/1446; October 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM
highwayknees said...: I have that old Beaumont ed. collection. I try to buy anytthing good with a Powers cover! The MArvin Kaye ed. looks interesting from the authors at least. I don't think I've ever run across that one or I would have bought it.
Just as a FYI: the Farris FIENDS is prob one of his best novels, IMHO. It has loads of local color and the plot is a doozy. The creatures also must have been the inspiration for those in the film The Desent me thinks. It is a truly creepy bookand one of my favorites. I also like his WILDWOOD, SON OF THE ENDLESS NIGHT & CATACOMBS.; October 4, 2015 at 1:55 PM

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