Once upon a time — about 40 years ago — there were few things as terrifyingly pulpy as the books at the supermarket checkout: fat paperbacks with crazy covers and titles like Eat Them Alive, The Face ...

Satanic possessions, bleeding banisters, monster sharks, children in the attic - all this as familiar to readers as their morning coffee, but where did these horrors come from and how did they make ...

STATE OF MIND, A BOSTON READER (428 pp.)—Edited by Robert N. Linscott— Farrar, Straus ($4.50). “This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; ...

Author Grady Hendrix's new book is a celebration of the lurid horror paperbacks of the 1970s, books that gave already frightened readers an... These 'Paperbacks From Hell' Reflect The Real-Life Angst ...