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He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem
The drive-ins are mostly gone. Video stores are history. Independent bookstores and theaters are endangered species. Shopping malls have become mausoleums. The third He Who Types Between the Rows book is a requiem for marvels of the past.
Even while the genre climate changes, gadabout horror enthusiast Mark Sieber reminds us that drive-ins, video stores, and all the rest are states of mind. Horror rises again from the tomb as it always has and as it always will.
Buy your ticket, stamp your library card, and dust off those old classics. He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem is a guided tour of the genre through the lens of an eternal boy who watched the genre from the venerable days of black and white classics to the television revolution, and on through the advent of videotapes and DVD.
See horror milestones honored. Gasp as sacred cows are ground into hamburger. Thrill to dozens of reviews, rants, and pointed observations from the mind of fan whose mind is a miasma of horror tropes.
Say their Whale. Browning. Lewton. Karloff. Lugosi. Price. Corman. Lovecraft. Matheson. Bloch. Straub. Grant. Romero. Craven. Hooper. Shine a light on their memories that will illuminate the horror stars of the present and the future.
Mark Sieber and the He Who Types Between the Rows series pledge to keep the old horror stars alive, while celebrating the genre as it still lives and breathes.
Even while the genre climate changes, gadabout horror enthusiast Mark Sieber reminds us that drive-ins, video stores, and all the rest are states of mind. Horror rises again from the tomb as it always has and as it always will.
Buy your ticket, stamp your library card, and dust off those old classics. He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem is a guided tour of the genre through the lens of an eternal boy who watched the genre from the venerable days of black and white classics to the television revolution, and on through the advent of videotapes and DVD.
See horror milestones honored. Gasp as sacred cows are ground into hamburger. Thrill to dozens of reviews, rants, and pointed observations from the mind of fan whose mind is a miasma of horror tropes.
Say their Whale. Browning. Lewton. Karloff. Lugosi. Price. Corman. Lovecraft. Matheson. Bloch. Straub. Grant. Romero. Craven. Hooper. Shine a light on their memories that will illuminate the horror stars of the present and the future.
Mark Sieber and the He Who Types Between the Rows series pledge to keep the old horror stars alive, while celebrating the genre as it still lives and breathes.
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Published March 21, 2025
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April 6, 2025
This is the latest installment in Mark Sieber's "He Who Types Between the Rows" trilogy of essay collections. In one essay, Mark laments not having a horror friend, someone he "could drop by and see once or twice a month . . . [b]ring over a large pizza and some juicy movies . . . and howl at the moon like tomorrow will never come." I've often wished for the same thing. When I read this book, I felt like I finally had one, and I think you will, too. Mark is an opinionated, well-informed horror fan whose passion for books and movies bleeds through on every page. He's got a lot to say about horror, SF (science fiction), and life, and he's worth listening to. You may not agree with all of his (usually strong) opinions, but that's ok because there should be room in a friendship for disagreement. And there's plenty of pizza to go around.
April 29, 2025
HE WHO TYPES BETWEEN THE ROWS: A Decade of Horror Drive-In by MARK SIEBER
Mark Sieber's trilogy He Who Types Between the Rows collect his posts from the blog Horror Drive-In.
Many are reminiscences from younger years: Drive-In theaters, grindhouse flea-pits, fun with friends now gone.
Other posts celebrate new and old horror authors. Sieber clearly reads horror like most of us do: purposefully, casually, and therapeutically. New voices excite him, so my own reading list is expanded.
Sieber's tone is confident but relaxed. His pieces recall forgotten pleasures that require cry out for our attention again: fiction, nonfiction, VHS tapes, DVDs and always, always, the Drive-In.
He Who Types Between the Rows: A Decade of Horror Drive-In https://a.co/d/hPwNQfD
He Who Types Between The Rows 2: Horror Drive-In Will Never Die! https://a.co/d/3h8vumD
He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem https://a.co/d/iIYVOtF
These three collections will take you back. In a good way.
Mark Sieber's trilogy He Who Types Between the Rows collect his posts from the blog Horror Drive-In.
Many are reminiscences from younger years: Drive-In theaters, grindhouse flea-pits, fun with friends now gone.
Other posts celebrate new and old horror authors. Sieber clearly reads horror like most of us do: purposefully, casually, and therapeutically. New voices excite him, so my own reading list is expanded.
Sieber's tone is confident but relaxed. His pieces recall forgotten pleasures that require cry out for our attention again: fiction, nonfiction, VHS tapes, DVDs and always, always, the Drive-In.
He Who Types Between the Rows: A Decade of Horror Drive-In https://a.co/d/hPwNQfD
He Who Types Between The Rows 2: Horror Drive-In Will Never Die! https://a.co/d/3h8vumD
He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem https://a.co/d/iIYVOtF
These three collections will take you back. In a good way.
April 9, 2025
I like reading this series cause it gives me ideas of other books and authors to check out. The author of this book is stuck in the past. He knows it on some level. Still he should see that he is re-reading books he already read and reading books about authors and movies from long ago too much. The ebook I got from Amazon is poorly formatted. Duplicate chapters and repeated pages plague it. This author is that kind of person that is only happy talking about “the old days” and is lost in a conversation about anything that happened in the current real world….culturally or artistically. It’s a shame I am only a few years younger and he is missing out on living.
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