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All the books mentioned in Grady Hendrix's book "Paperbacks from Hell"*
*The first 100, anyway, since there's a 100-book limit for any one person to add. Feel free to add more! I got to page 58 of the book.

Update: list now up to page 114.

Updated update: up to page 155.

One more update: page 187.
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569 books · 59 voters · list created December 19th, 2018 by Kate (votes) .
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Kate 5210 books
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message 1: by Rosa (new)

Rosa Would you change the books you added to the editions (covers) in Hendrix's book?


message 2: by Rosa (new)

Rosa Some rather what stuff?


message 3: by Margaret (new)

Margaret Update: everything up to page 187 completed


message 4: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn This is a good list of books for me to avoid!


message 5: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Jaws is listed twice. The second time is at number 305 at the moment. I believe I saw Interview with the Vampire listed twice also.


message 6: by Rosa (new)

Rosa Duplicates removed.


message 7: by Lou (new)

Lou Rocama There's a Jodi Picoult on here. Should it? I don't own the book and can't check.
Also, Rosa and rockabilly werewolf, I voted for a bunch of stuff on your lists. You both seem to keep up with it, and since I can't look at the book to add new stuff, I figured I'd free up space so you guys could.


message 8: by Lou (new)

Lou Rocama The jodi picoult has a score of 85, and is currently 138.


message 9: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Lou wrote: "There's a Jodi Picoult on here. Should it? I don't own the book and can't check.
Also, Rosa and rockabilly werewolf, I voted for a bunch of stuff on your lists. You both seem to keep up with it, an..."


Maybe you are asking about The Tenth Circle which is about hell? I seems to be from Dante's inferno.


message 10: by Lou (new)

Lou Rocama But is it featured in Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction?

Also it doesn't seem to be horror.


message 11: by Sally (new)

Sally update July 19 2020: added all pictured books from pages 188 to 220.


message 12: by Rosa (new)

Rosa Great job!


message 13: by Michael (new)

Michael I came to Goodreads to make a list of these books and discovered you did it for me! Thank you!!! :-)


message 14: by David (new)

David I think that Satan's Holiday is the wrong book. It's a recently published anthology. I have added what I think is the right book to the list.


message 15: by Arianna (new)

Arianna Perez how can I obtain a printable list of all these books with their authors?


message 16: by Rosa (last edited Jun 07, 2022 01:38PM) (new)

Rosa Here's a fun quiz:
www quirkbooks.com slash which obscure retro monster are you
Unfortunately, I can't link to it. Just replace the spaces with hyphens and the word "slash" with a / if you want to take it.
Book covers shown:
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum The Kill Riff by David J. Schow Mama's Little Girl by George McNeill The Desecration of Susan Browning by Russ Martin Crabs The Human Sacrifice by Guy N. Smith


Jackie (Jacademic) UPDATE 1/14/22:

Added all non-pictured books from pages 188 to 222.

Added additional titles mentioned in the Afterword (Recommended Reading by Will Errickson), pages 234 - 236.


͙⁺˚*・༓☾ final girl (ari) this is peak perfection 👏🏼


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