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These books are the entire reason that the horror genre went into the gutter in the 80's. Man, I remember when the 'horror' section in book stores used to be 6 or 8 feet across of shelf space from floor to ceiling and now I'm treated to one little tiny section if the store even has a 'horror' area. There were so many bad books being published because some guy named Stephen King was selling a gazillion copies of his books.
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....I remember that, and all the garish and gory covers!....wow, that was a fun time for browsing-but as you say, some real craptatstic stuff was churned out of the mill.....These books are the entire reason that the horror genre went into the gutter in the 80's. Man, I remember when the 'horror' section in book stores used to be 6 or 8 feet across of shelf space from floor to ceiling and now I'm treated to one little tiny section if the store even has a 'horror' area. There were so many bad books being published because some guy named Stephen King was selling a gazillion copies of his books.
That looks supremely cool! I loved 70s/80s horror. Whatever was on the spinner at WalMart because I lived in a tiny town at least an hour from a bookstore. Thanks for the heads - up. I loved seeing those covers.
I've been to that site before, although not recently. I didn't realize it was the same guy. Cool!
I read his first 3 or 4 books and gave up after that. They were all the same- little girl who turns out to be evil, etc.
Speaking of nauseating...have you read John Saul? He has some interesting story ideas, admittedly, but he writes about as well as I water ski (that is to say, not well).
I know you didn’t ask me, but I have several Saul paperbacks—thrift store purchases—but haven’t gotten to any of them yet.
Speaking of nauseating...have you read John Saul? He has some interesting story ideas, admittedly, but he writes about as well as I water ski (that is to say, not well).
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Speaking of nauseating...have you read John Saul?
Same here. I was about fifteen, though.
