#31 – Halloween 2 – novelization by Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison) – (1981, Zebra)
80’s horror paperbacks
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#27: Weaveworld – Clive Barker (Pocket Books, 1988)
Not sure if this dude on the cover just won the lottery, or got kicked in the nuts…? Despite the questionable cover art, I dig the gold texturing. The novel itself is an epic of horror and fantasy.
Here’s the artwork under the front cover:
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#19: Floating Dragon – Peter Straub (Berkley, 1982)
I remember reading passages of this novel back in 1982. I remember the metallic blue cover, the tight font on a crowded page, and the complicated prose that went beyond my 10-year-old level of reading comprehension. Diving into this years later, I can say that Floating Dragon is one of my favorite horror novels. It’s a door-stopper, a New England epic of the supernatural, and while not perfect, contains so many wonderful tropes of the genre and re-imaginings of suburban dread and nuclear panic that marked the late 1970s, early 1980s. It’s truly a marvel in its scope, and doesn’t shy away from the gruesome. Classic Straub worthy of reading again and again.
Let the terror begin again.