Joseph Pilato – actor
Actor Joseph Pilato has died at the age of seventy. Also known as Joe Pilato, he will probably be best remembered as the villainous Captain Rhodes who gets his comeuppance …
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Paperbacks from Hell – book
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction is a 2017 American book by Grady Hendrix, published by Quirk Books. “Take a tour through the horror …
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Frankenstein Horror Series – collection of novels
Frankenstein Horror Series was a collection of nine American horror novels published in 1972 and 1973 by New York based Popular Library. Aside from the overarching collection name they appear to …
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Croc – novel, UK, 1976
‘In the tradition of Night of the Crabs’ Croc is a 1976 horror novel written by David James. One of the few US novels in the ‘nature strikes back’ subgenre, …
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The Daughters of Satan – novel by Sandra Shulman
The Daughters of Satan is a horror novel by Sandra Shulman. The novel was first published in 1968 by Paperback Library Inc under the title The Daughters of Astoroth, but …
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Sphere horror pulp fiction
Sphere horror paperbacks were published in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. They were hugely popular and many – such as Lust for a Vampire, Blind Terror, The Ghoul, …
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Richard Lewis – author
Richard Lewis was a novelist who emerged during the British horror fiction boom of the late 1970s, then vanished once that boom turned to bust. Over a few short years, …
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Slither – novel by John Halkin
Slither is a horror novel by British author John Halkin, first published in 1980 by Hamlyn Paperbacks. It is not connected to the 2006 film of the same title. The …
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Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Pan Book of Horror Stories was a paperback series of short horror story anthologies published by Pan Books Ltd. The series ran to thirty volumes, the first published in …
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Peter Saxon – author
Peter Saxon was a house pseudonym used by various writers in the 1960s and early 70s. ‘Saxon’ wrote several paperback horror novels, including the ‘Guardians’ series, in which a group …
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Peter Tremayne – author
Peter Berresford Ellis (born 10 March 1943 in Coventry) is a historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over ninety books to date either under his own name or …
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Guy N. Smith – author
Guy Newman Smith (born 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is a prolific English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror fiction, though he has also written non-fiction, softcore smut, and children’s …
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