![]() ![]() Then in the early 1990s it just stopped like someone turned off the hydrant to the firehouse. In an attempt to look edgy and tough, they somehow came out looking adorable. Guys in ripped black t-shirts, Goths with pentagrams tattooed on their wrists, truck drivers displaying way too many inches of butt crack as they searched the lower shelves, and flirty housewives with a glimmer of something dark lurking in their pupils would bring stacks and stacks of black covered paperbacks up to the counter and leave me a heap of cash in exchange. When I started in the book business in Phoenix, Arizona, the Horror section was one of the most pillaged sections in the store. All three spawned movies and, most important, set the tone for the next two decades of horror publishing.” And except for three books by Peter ‘Jaws’ Benchley, they’d be the only horror titles on that list until Stephen King’s The Dead Zone in 1979. ![]() Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, Thomas Tryon’s The Other, and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist were the first horror novels to grace Publisher’s Weekly’s annual best-seller list since Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca in 1938. ![]() In a little more than five years, horror fiction became fit for adults, thanks to three books. ”Between April 1967 and December 1973, everything changed. ![]()
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