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Friday, March 31, 2017

The Sky is a Poisonous Garden: Vampire Paperbacks of the 1990s

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As the 1990s rolled on, so did the evolution of horror paperback covers. They became more photo-realistic, thuddingly square and obviou...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Woodwitch by Stephen Gregory (1988): There's Fever in the Funkhouse Now

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Well, there's nothing for it: another vintage horror novel read in 2017 that promised much but delivered little. Despite the endless r...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

And Never Really Die

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  Cover art by Mark & Stephanie Gerber
Sunday, March 19, 2017

RIP Berni Wrightson (1948-2017)

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The horror world mourns as it learns of the passing of unsurpassable artist Berni(e) Wrightson , who died Saturday after a long battle ...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Blood of Nostradamus Trilogy by Andrew Laurance (1991): Eye of the Prophet

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Consisting of three occult horror novels originally published a decade prior in the UK under different titles, Blood of Nostradamus (Diam...
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Friday, March 3, 2017

Well I Got This Guitar and I Learned How to Make It Talk

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Obelisk by Ehren M. Ehly (1988): A Ghost Lives in My Veins

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Ye risen gods but is this some terrific 1980s paperback cover art! Behold the stepback below, in which artist Ben Perini really went for b...
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Friday, February 17, 2017

Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher (1987): Watching the Detective

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When I need to take a break from reading horror, the genre I look to most often is crime and private detective fiction. On and off for yea...
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