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Sunday, May 7, 2017

The Surrogate by Nick Sharman (1980): Father Do You Wanna Bang Heads with Me

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Malevolent doll alert! Yes indeed, that mainstay of '80s horror fiction is at it again, a supernaturally-possessed innocent child'...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

RIP William Hjortsberg (1941-2017)

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Sad news for lovers of good writers: author William Hjortsberg has died . His 1978 crime-horror novel Falling Angel is a favorite of min...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Hunter of the Shadows: The Lovecraft Omnibus 1-3, 1985

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'Warning! You are about to enter a new dimension of utmost terror. When you open this book you will lost - lost in a world of dreadf...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Horror Fiction Help XVI

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1. Comics series in mid to late '80s, one issue was a about a woman whose husband was a giant wasp-man creature. Cover featured nude...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Women of Darkness, edited by Kathryn Ptacek (1988): Fear of a Female Planet

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Featuring the usual distinctive orange typeface against a black background, Tor's Women of Darkness (October 1989) showed a refreshi...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Artist Murray Tinkelman Born on This Date, 1933

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Murray Tinkelman , who died last year, produced covers for the mid-'70s Ballantine reprints of Lovecraft which are almost as iconic as...
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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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