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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A Month of Black Sabbaths: The Horror Paperbacks of Daniel Rhodes

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Not much to catch the eye in this classy cover art for Next, After Lucifer (July 1988), but the critical blurbs seem to be impressed! One o...
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Saturday, February 13, 2021

RIP Rowena Morrill (1944 - 2021)

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Illustrator extraordinaire Rowena Morrill has died at age 76 after a long illness, according to Locus . I was just thinking of her too as o...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

Omen and Prophecy Author David Seltzer Born on This Date, 1940

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  Two of the most ubiquitous horror paperbacks of the Seventies were novelizations of movies, The Omen (Signet/July 1976) and Prophecy (Ba...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Sudden Dead, Sudden Life

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Fifty pages in, and despite my reluctance to give up on books, I had to bail on the 1980 psychic thriller Platforms , by New York-born novel...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Manstopper by Douglas Borton (1988): If Dogs Run Free

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  Vintage "animal attack" horror novels run a gamut in quality, from the classic to the why bother , from the pretty good to the...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

RIP Guy N. Smith (1939 - 2020)

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Prolific pulp-horror writer Guy N. Smith has passed at age 81, according to his website , from what looks to be COVID-19 complications. 202...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Dell Abyss Promo Materials, 1991-1993

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Here's something I never expected to have in my horror collection: promotional materials from publisher Dell for their new imprint line ...
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