Horror was hitting the bestseller list for the first time since the ’40s. “There wasn’t much horror fiction that was marketed as horror fiction,” Hendrix explains, “but then ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ came along and then ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Other’ back to back. Get your tickets here!Ĭlick here to order your copy of Paperbacks from Hell! to celebrate the release of this fantastic book. We also got to see his brilliant live one-man show about Paperbacks from Hell, which will be happening at Brooklyn New York’s Film Noir Cinema (via the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies) this coming Tuesday, September 19 at 7 p.m. To write this book, Hendrix read over 300 lurid paperbacks from the golden era when animal attacks, creepy kids and haunted houses were king. During the Fantasia Film Festival this past summer, we had the opportunity to sit down and talk to author and screenwriter Grady Hendrix about his new book Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction.
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