An audiobook release by Blackstone Audio followed on January 9, 2018. It was first published by Quirk Books on Septemin print and ebook. They were churning out more and more paperbacks more and more quickly, and there was less and less money out there and less and less readers.Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction is a 2017 non-fiction book by American writer Grady Hendrix. One was the publishing industry was just in a spin. So basically, what happened is two things.

Astrology was big, Time magazine had two covers that were like, 'The New Age occult craze in America' and also there was a fear of our children - 'What is this rock music and this LSD and this 'Summer of Love'? Surely there must be a dark side there.'Īnd so these books really reflected a lot of where we were at the times and answered a lot of questions, and the answer to most of the questions was, 'Yes, be very, very afraid of everything.' Jellyfish, mattresses, curtains, dogs, moths, caterpillars, children, dolls, clowns, puppets. And so you had in the early '70s, late '60s, all this fascination with the occult. In the early '70s, I think part of the appeal of these books is they were written fast and without a lot of pretensions, and so in doing that, these authors were kind of capturing the time in which they were writing. Movies 'Battle,' 'Games': Cold Brutality A Common Theme and it is quite literally a book about a castle in Ireland being turned into a B&B, and the big problem is Nazi leprechauns in the basement.' And I came across The Little People by John Christopher. 'So I was going through a dealer's bin looking for something, you know, that would grab my attention, a place to start. 'I sort of was a film guy originally, and in film there's this real tradition, going out and finding really obscure movies no one's heard about and showing them to people to sort of blow their minds, and I didn't see this happening so much with books,' he says. His new book is an appreciation (sort of?) of horror fiction from the '70s and '80s - things like man-eating frogs, satanic sex cults and, of course, Nazi leprechauns, which, Hendrix tells me, were kind of the start of everything. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Paperbacks from Hell Subtitle The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction Author Will Errickson and Grady Hendrix

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