Tag: Valancourt Books

• For Horror Connoisseurs: Paperbacks from Hell

  If you’re a Generation X’er (or older), you may remember that golden age of horror during the 1970s and 1980s, when cheesy paperbacks with titles in red metallic fonts and lurid cover art were all over supermarket and drugstore racks. Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell (2017) is a nostalgia-inducing collection of these covers, as well…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 20, 2020

  Reading

  1970s, 1980s, Bari Wood, Book covers, Elizabeth Engstrom, Horror, Paperbacks from Hell, Small publishers, The Tribe, Valancourt Books, When Darkness Loves Us

• Golden Ages of Horror: Reading Elizabeth

  About two years ago, I discovered Valancourt Books, which reissues out-of-print horror, generally from the 1970s and early 1980s, in really attractive slim trade paperbacks. My latest read from them was Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall (originally published under the pseudonym Jessica Hamilton). What a disturbing little book about a 14-year-girl who seems to be a complete sociopath…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 12, 2019

  Notebook, Reading

  Elizabeth, Golden Age of Horror, Horror, Ken Greenhall, Valancourt Books