80s horror book covers

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We all had that book as kids — a book with such a terrifying book cover that we had to keep it under our beds or in another room between readings. As we got older, we (mostly) became able to tolerate even the scariest book covers, but one some…

This sleek, efficient little thriller won't let go once it gets its claws in ya! I read Feral (Pocket Books, 1975/Avon reprint, 1983) in one lazy, sunny, mildly hungover afternoon, eagerly eating up every gruesome morsel Berton Roueché was serving. First time I ever heard of it was in King's Danse Macabre, in which he writes it's "one of that select handful [of books] that I have given to people, envying them the experience of the first reading." Indeed. Feral is a soufflé of a…

80s horror book cover aesthetic 70s

Over on my personal blog, my mom, co-blogger, and Adult Books 4 Teens reviewer, Sarah Flowers, has a post up about a workshop on YA servives she’s teaching. As an icebreaker, she asked participants what books they were reading when they were 15. My response is somewhat muddled, because I don’t remember my reading from that particular […]

Women Running From Houses: 20 Epic Gothic Horror Book Covers

The White Fog. I still have this book.