Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

Melanie Tem’s Prodigal,

Koja’s next novel, Bad Brains,

Nancy Holder’s Dead in the Water

Nightlife by Brian Hodge,

Michael Blumlein’s X, Y

Lisa Tuttle’s quantum narrative Lost Futures,

(Dead White), Prometheus chained to a rock in an abandoned New York City subway station (Night Train), an army of killer jellyfish (Slime), a Satan who is obsessed with anal sex (The Nursery), an Alabama family welcoming a river monster into its ranks (The Blackwater series), an army of six-inch-tall Nazi leprechauns (our beloved classic The Little People)?

When Darkness Loves Us. Or maybe The Voice of the Clown. Or Elizabeth. Or The Auctioneer. Or Feast. Or The Happy Man.