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Writer Calls on Horror Fans to Boycott Leisure Books
When I wrote about the demise of Leisure’s mass market paperback line in favor of e-books, I had no idea the terrible drama playing out behind the scenes. According to genre author Brian Keene, Dorchester/Leisure Books stopped paying royalties owed … Continue reading
Is Mass Market Horror Fiction Dead?
Over the last thirty years the market for horror novels has exploded, dried up to almost nothing, found new life through the splatterpunk movement, died off again, and then made a comeback through Leisure Books’ line of mass market horror novels. Last … Continue reading
Gross Gifts
The success of Blanche Knott’s Truly Tasteless Jokes spawned numerous rip-offs in the early 80s. Julius Alvin cashed in on the raunchy joke book craze with the Gross Jokes series. Gross Gifts, the entry from 1983, skips the usual dead baby … Continue reading
Book Review – Teenage Wasteland: The Slasher Movie Uncut
Teenage Wasteland is a welcome addition to the list of essential books about horror movies that includes Michael Weldon’s Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, John McCarty’s Official Splatter Movie Guide and Stephen Thrower’s Nightmare U.S.A. Continue reading
Butcher Knives and Body Counts
Keep an eye on bookshelves this fall for the latest word on our beloved slashers. The book is called Butcher Knives and Body Counts and will feature dozens of essays on our favorite genre. Edited by Vince Liaguno (author of the The … Continue reading
Joyride (1983) Book Review
Horror fiction writers were slow to take up the slasher mantle back in the early 80’s even though celluloid stalkers were carving up hefty profits at the box-office. Anyone scanning paperback racks at the corner market were more likely to … Continue reading
How To Survive A Horror Movie (2007) Book Review
Talk about finding a diamond among a bunch of worthless rocks. I first saw Seth Grahame-Smith’s excellent book on a new release table sandwiched between mountains of Oprah’s latest Book of the Month and literary dreck that folks buy but … Continue reading
Nightmare USA
The bible for all horror movie lovers. Continue reading
Freddy Krueger’s Memoirs Out Soon!
Over the last twenty-five years, Robert Englund has become one of the greatest icons of modern horror cinema with his turn as the demonic child murderer Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
Legacy Of Blood: The Jim Harper Interview (2004)
Jim Harper has written a book about the slasher genre entitled LEGACY OF BLOOD: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SLASHER MOVIES, released in the UK in 2004. The blurb reads: The “slasher” movie is the bloodiest incarnation of the modern horror … Continue reading