Monstrous Acts and Erections of Doom: On Five ’80s-Era “Paperbacks from Hell”

THE MOST TERRIFYING WORK of fiction you may read in 2019 — Elizabeth Engstrom’s When Darkness Loves Us — first crawled to life as a cheapo paperback in the mid-1980s. Now back in print as part of Valancourt’s Paperbacks from Hell series of ’70s and ’80s horror rediscoveries, Engstrom’s genre masterwork, comprising two harrowing novellas, […] The post Monstrous Acts and Erections of Doom: On Five ’80s-Era “Paperbacks from Hell” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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