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|author= Grady Hendrix
|title= Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Horror
|summary= Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.
 
Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>
See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>
And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749817</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Luke Dittrich
|summary= On the surface, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enough, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete with maid. That's all anyone could ever want, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many of us. Yet each of her pet projects, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living room, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607298X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jakob Wegelius and Peter Graves (translator)
|title=The Murderer's Ape
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sally Jones is in clover as a mechanic on a cargo ship – when, that is, there is cargo to actually ship. Having needed emergency repairs, the two-strong crew of her and the Chief are idling in Lisbon, and are given a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldn't go wrong, but does. Unfortunately for the Chief, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murder. Sally Jones is forced into hiding, which she manages to do with a lovely, kind woman with a hidden talent for singing, and her landlord, who makes and repairs accordions and other musical instruments. Life with them seems to be a new form of clover, then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back to haunt Sally Jones, especially when there's a suggestion that the alleged murder victim might still be alive…
Oh, and did I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691618</amazonuk>
}}
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