Recent Retro Paperback Pickups - Horror Book Blurb

What splendid horror/trash/sleaze have I been wasting money on? Join me and find out…

[@arlenearmstrong8270]

Good to have you back . Now how about the rest of " Eat Them Aliiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee " ?

[@p.m.s.6263]

Such were the days of the paperback original. Great haul. SAS versus CIA, NEL classics, Timothy Lea's 'Confessions', and 70s horror; what's not to like. Very enjoyable glimpse of the past.

[@michaelsterckx4120]

I have a few of the Confession books, I picked up recently. I used to buy them occasionally in a second book shop, in the 70s, for pennies, when the smutty dialogue appealed immensely to a 14 year. Certainly better dialogue than the films, I recall. Now, they are creaking old 70s time relics, stinking of Brut.

[@markandresen1]

Yay! Good to see you back.

[@soundsfromthewestcoast9939]

Ah those Confession films were a definite guilty pleasure for us teenagers 😜😍!!! Those Hitchcock paperbacks look ace.

[@Ian-lp1pr]

Brilliant, very informative. Love the NELs and have one or two myself + a FB page on the subject and lots of scans on Flickr + pulpy horror paperbacks/odds n sods.

[@Conan_The_Librarian]

Randomly clicked on the video... you were definitely not what I was expecting haha... not in a bad way!!! New sub mate! Can't wait to see what else you pick up!

[@Mark-nh2hs]

I remember buying "Worms" from a second hand book stall when I was younger thinking it was going to be like "Squirm" - and it's a totally different beast - I actually enjoyed "Worms" more. One of my fav books my Nan got me when I was young was "The Ghost Hunter's Road Book" (1968) by John Harries. Love this book and was different from the other Ghost books I had read at the time. Still have the book and still read it from time to time. "The Pike" I remember seeing a few copies of this book when I was a youngster in second hand book stalls - never read it or bought it as the idea of a Fish like a Pike in a river or cannel didn't interest me 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It maybe a untapped horror classic lol

[@thepaperbackfanatic1]

I think Evan Chandler was Scott Gronmark who wrote as Nick Sharman.

[@Ian-lp1pr]

P.S. Cliff Tremlow (The Pike) was a doorman/bouncer back in the day (presume it's the same guy) also wrote Tuxedo Warrior which is well worth a read and relatively easy to pick up.

[@michaelsterckx4120]

We watched a straight to video recommendation from our local video shop, back when these shops were still renting out under the counter dodgy video nasties, etc. "In the tradition of the Long Good Friday," so the cover reckoned. After seeing a copy of The Pike in my mate's car and becoming obsessed with both a plot involving killer pike in Lake Windermere, and his strange name, getting the video home, for a Saturday night lad's night in, we sat and watched quite possibly the cheapest, most poorly acted, misogynistic ego stroke I've ever seen. The Manc, shot on video and starring, written, produced and directed by Cliff Twemlow. Manchester bouncer comes down to London to kill gangsters, ride around Epping on the back of a motorbike, while ravishing various women, or rather borderline raping them, only seconds after meeting them. Which is all I can say about it. Atrocious. 😅

[@Ian-lp1pr]

@@michaelsterckx4120 haha yea he was in few things, think he went over to the states at one point and did some work most of which if memory serves was also atrocious lmao.

[@bertsbooks2505]

Oh yeah, they're a bit 'caveat emptor', those Wood novels. He also did a football thug one, under another name.

[@thepaperbackfanatic1]

Gerard De Villiers was a real person - definitely not James Moffatt! (The SAS books are good for one thing!) 100s of the series appeared in his native France. Pinnacle in the US reprinted about 15. DeVillers was a really interesting character by all accounts.

[@grumpykev6647]

I have a pile of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents books that are destined for the charity shop. Happily send them to you if you'll cover postage. Let me know if you'd like a list