Too Much Horror Fiction

The artist Paul Stinson (aka Paul E.

I have just learned from Valancourt Books that British horror author Bernard Taylor, author of vintage classics like Sweetheart, Sweetheart and The Reaping, has died at age 91.

Another completely unexpected death of a major horror author: Thomas Tessier died at the age of 78 on March 26th.

The only novel by author and teacher Paula Trachtman (1931-2019), 1981's Disturb Not the Dream (Ballantine paperback, July 1982) is middle-of-the-road mainstream bestseller pop fiction, competently written, with some mild Gothic atmosphere, and lots of ch…

Sad and to me, completely unexpected news: Dan Simmons, author of some of the most popular, award-winning, thought-provoking, mind-expanding, and iconic horror and science fiction of the last 40 years, has died at age 77.

With his seventh novel, published in hardcover in 1996, Eighties horror icon Clive Barker outdoes even himself.

Published only in Canada in 1982 by the Canadian wing of Signet/New American Library, Cold Front is one of the rarest horror paperbacks of that era.

A slim but successful suspense thriller, Seance on a Wet Afternoon isn't really a horror novel, but I read it solely for that wonderfully evocative, moody title alone (I've long known about the movie adaptation but have never seen it).

Well, the time has come: after seven years and almost two dozen titles, Valancourt Books' series of horror fiction reprints, curated by me and Grady Hendrix and inspired by our 2017 nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, will come to an end.

Prolific, long-time author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has died at age 82.

Now this is some serious paperback horror cover art.

How do you tell a man, gently, that his wife is a homicidal nymphomaniac?

Don't miss this recording of my live chat with The Book Graveyard!

Hey all, here's something you might dig: this Saturday, July 5, at 7pm EST, I will be doing a live chat/interview with The Book Graveyard, a supercool book blog/YouTube page that features vintage paperbacks of various genres.

Hola amigos, long time since I rapped at ya!

The gritty, grimy New York City of the 1970s looms large in our pop cultural imagination.

Vampires, vampires, vampires!

Busting out of nowhere in 1977 with his debut novel from Dell, John Saul had success immediately, watching as Suffer the Children hit the bestseller charts and sold millions of copies, thanks to an easy-to-remember name and a first-ever tv commercial ad c…

Plucked this guy off my shelves at random, it's spooky season, right?

This past spring I was visiting San Diego to meet up with family and on the drive down that way lucked into finding a delightful little bookstore, Artifact Books (not to be confused with Artifacts bookstore in Hood River, OR).

I'm calling upon you again, dear readers, for assistance in identifying some forgotten horror tomes of yesteryear.

Snake-handling, a bizarre cult behavior formed from several lines in the Bible, is ripe for horrific exploitation.

All over the social media of bibliophiles you can see people who insist that they must finish any book they've started reading.

In 1993, in my early 20s, I was working in a giant chain bookstore known as BookStar in Cary, NC.

Around Spring 2024, Grady Hendrix, Valancourt Books, and I will be unleashing two devilishly good horror titles in our series of Paperbacks from Hell reprints: Jere Cunningham's The Legacy (1977) and The Abyss (1981).