![]() ![]() Hell-bent on lifting such books out of obscurity, vintage horror fanatics Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson authored “ Paperbacks from Hell,” which assembles hundreds of these eccentric novels. ![]() “When’s the last time you read about…sex witches from the fourth dimension, flesh-eating moths, homicidal mimes, or golems stalking Long Island?” It was also a boom time for mass market paperbacks, and horror authors in this period abandoned convention and respectability, running with the most bizarre and indecent plots they could imagine. These decades saw one revolution after another, including the upending of social mores around sexuality, rapid developments in science and technology and the apocalyptic fears of the Cold War. Between the late 1960s and early 90s, there was plenty of material to work with. Throughout its history, the horror genre has been effective at exploring and subverting cultural anxieties and taboos. ![]()
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