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SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! LEARN the stories of long-forgotten creators as well as familiar names like V.C. Andrews and Anne Rice. Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary s Baby. It s an affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinching tour through the horror fiction boom of the seventies and eighties, complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles. Plus recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
Dell Paperbacks, 1942 to Mid-1962
Greenwood Press
1983
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Within the past decade paperback books have gained respectability among bibliophiles and scholars of popular culture. One of the most collectible runs of paperbacks by a single publisher is the 2,168 Dell Paperbacks produced between 1942 and May, 1962. During that period Dell books were grouped into distinct series and retained an identifiable look. In this catalog-index each of the paperbacks is entered separately in the catalog of series listings. Main entries include the full title and subtitle of the book, the author's byline, head or title notes, pagination, printing date and size of the print run, publication date (if known), identification of the cover artist, full annotation of the back cover map when appropriate, and other annotations such as contents of collections and anthologies, and identification of ghost writers. The bibliography also indexes anonymous titles, subjects, maps, geographical areas, motion picture, television, and play tie-ins, actors and actresses pictured on Dell covers, special series, and advance blurbs.
Every book lover’s collection includes a few treasured favorites with frayed edges and covers soft from wear. Richard Baker’s remarkable paintings of vintage paperback books capture these intimate details. The “book portraits” feature titles by some of the most iconic writers of the modern era, from Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain to George Orwell and Susan Sontag.
Every book lover’s collection includes a few treasured favorites with frayed edges and covers soft from wear. Richard Baker’s remarkable paintings of vintage paperback books capture these intimate details. The “book portraits” feature titles by some of the most iconic writers of the modern era, from Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain to George Orwell and Susan Sontag.
Classic Paperbacks Notebook
Princeton Architectural Press
2021
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Take literary inspiration with you everywhere you go with the new Classic Paperbacks Notebook, featuring artist Richard Baker's remarkable paintings of vintage paperback books. Interspersed throughout the notebook and displayed on the cover are Baker's near-photographic paintings of beloved real books from the most iconic writers from the nineteenth century to the modern era, from Emily Dickinson to Zora Neale Hurston and Herman Melville to James Baldwin. Each "book portrait" includes the marks of a treasured favorite with covers softened and edges frayed from countless readings. The lined journal is a perfect companion for readers and book lovers.
Classic Paperbacks 1000 Piece Puzzle
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
2020
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1000 PIECE PUZZLE: A fun challenge, this puzzle features iconic books from across the literary canon and a mix of genres (poetry, memoir, fiction and nonfiction). UNIQUE ART AND VINTAGE FEEL: The artist, Richard Baker, paints paperback editions from the 1960s and ‘70s, faithfully portraying not only the original front cover details, but also signs of its passage through time – creases, worn bindings, and all. GREAT GIFT: Bibliophiles, literary lovers and art history enthusiasts alike will enjoy assembling this puzzle. PUZZLE DIMENSIONS: The completed puzzle measures 25 x 20"
Rory and her magical family have been through their fair share of tribulations. The sudden reappearance of a hidden corridor in the library has unleashed a series of baffling riddles left by the library's creator, but Rory's deceased grandmother's motives are as shrouded in mystery as ever.When a professor is poisoned to death at the local university, everyone thinks it's an accident. Only Rory and her family know of a potential link with a notorious group of vampires who are tangled up with her family's own history. Before she knows it, danger is afoot, and the past is intruding on the present in unexpected ways.Can Rory unearth the truth before she ends up consigned to the pages of history herself?
They were caught in the ultimate trap. They faced the ultimate terror.Five men and one beautiful woman. Marooned on a floating island of arctic ice. Together they had the equipment and skills to fight the freezing cold, the violently savage storms.Then suddenly from the angry seas the jaws of horror opened wide as nature's deadliest creature rose from the depths - a huge killer whale of enormous intelligence, incredible power, indestructible endurance, ravenous for human prey....This reissue of Peter Tonkin's bestseller Killer (1979), the first in decades, features a new introduction by Grady Hendrix and the original cover art by Ken Barr."Relentless, terrifying, chilling ... as good as Jaws " - Lewiston Journal"Vivid, exciting ... a thriller not for the squeamish " - Macon Telegraph News"A whale of a story " - Arizona Republic
Turbulent Flow: Princeton Aeronautical Paperbacks, No. 9
Galen Brandt Schubauer; Chan Mou Tchen; Coleman Dup Donaldson
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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How to publish paperbacks in Japan
Elizabeth
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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It was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. Then a change in poison control was made, resulting in an unforeseen mutation. Now the giant mutant cockroaches are ready to leave their nest--in search of human flesh Following in the footsteps of other "animal attack" classics like Jaws and The Rats, Gregory A. Douglas's shocker The Nest (1980) is an '80s paperback horror classic and was the basis for a 1988 cult film adaptation. This edition features a new introduction by Too Much Horror Fiction blogger Will Errickson.
When Darkness Loves Us (Paperbacks from Hell)
Elizabeth Engstrom; Theodore Sturgeon
Valancourt Books
2019
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Sally Ann and Martha. Two women, searching for love. Finding terror.During a terrifying storm, a gentle childhood is destroyed by a twisted man who promises love but delivers nightmare.In the lightless depths of an underground labyrinth, unseen creatures lie in wait for an innocent traveler, cold skeletal hands stretched out in welcome.There is horror in darkness--horror made greater WHEN DARKNESS LOVES USThis long-awaited reissue of Elizabeth Engstrom's 1985 horror classic features a new introduction by Paperbacks from Hell author Grady Hendrix as well as the original foreword by SF legend Theodore Sturgeon and the original cover painting by Jill Bauman.
