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Rowena Morrill’s classick art for the 1977 Jove paperback ISOBEL—it was her first cover!

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2022-09-15

English-born artist Les Edwards (1949), whose lurid, garish, ghoulish cover art has graced hundreds of covers for *decades* (& even a very early Metallica single!)
🤘📖☠️🔥

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2022-09-08

Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), prolific pulp purveyor & personal pal of HPL! One of the earliest authors to contribute to the w his 1929 classick “Hounds of Tindalos.”

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2022-04-28

Prolific English author Peter Berresford Ellis (1943), using pseudonym Peter Tremayne, wrote lots of Few were published in the US—enjoy this monstrous anarchy from the UK!🤘📖🔥☠️🇬🇧

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2022-03-11

THE CRY OF THE BEAST!

(or, the sound I made after my fingers froze taking these photos this morning in 5 degree weather)

SNOWBEAST! by Peter Tremayne (Sphere, 1983)

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2022-01-31

fantasy & horror master Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) who helped bring an urban modernity to tales of ancient terrors. He coined the term "sword & sorcery" and also appeared in the 1970 cult horror flick EQUINOX!

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2021-12-25

paperbacks often contained some terrific stepback covers!

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2021-11-13

the late & much-missed
Dennis Etchison (1943-2019), whose work as both author & editor is some of the finest the horror genre has ever seen. I wrote about his ‘80s brilliant short fiction a few years ago:

https://t.co/dSuVAiaC9g

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2021-03-31

Ian Ballantine (1916-1995), publishing pioneer who founded Ballantine Books w wife Betty in 1952. They put out 1st US Tolkien paperbacks as well as lots of “adult fantasy” classics w gorgeous cover art!

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2021-02-15

KANSAS
One Foot in the Grave (W.M. Mark Simmons, 1996)

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2020-10-30

London-born (1943-2013) whose first 2 novels THE RATS (‘74) & THE FOG (‘75, unrelated to Carpenter film) became unexpected bestsellers, ushered in era of graphic horror—mixed w liberal dose of British class consciousness MUSTREADS 🤘📖🔥☠️

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2020-04-09

Dig this little full-moon funeral for a creepy kid goin on here 🤘📖🔥☠️ 🌕 ⚰️

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2020-03-11

New review up at Too Much Horror Fiction: Ramsey Campbell’s masterful 1989 novel about a lost Karloff & Lugosi film, ANCIENT IMAGES:

https://t.co/yQFSaXkCGn
🤘📖🔥☠️

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2020-02-05

More FREE audiobook codes added for Valancourt books, including several titles! Grab them quickly (seriously, they will be gone in minutes): https://t.co/DASLNGuX3i

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2020-01-30

Our 2nd title, NIGHTBLOOD, goes on sale officially next Tuesday, including the audio edition read by award-winning narrator ! The audiobook can be preordered now here: https://t.co/YBuP0nLrC9

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2019-11-05

features some scenes I consider the finest in all horror. second novel shows him already in possession of the skills that would make him synonymous with the genre. My review of this autumnal classic:
https://t.co/4GizWw2Ab2

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2019-09-22