Recs if you like The Other...

you definitely don’t want to babysit the kids in these books!! these are some bad kids, some might even say evil kids, like they’re possessed by demons or something, think Damien from The Omen or the twins in Goodnight Mommy

as always, taking any and all suggestions!

Inspired by reading Paperbacks from Hell (by Grady Hendrix), I wanted to broaden the horror novels under my belt. I might have grown up reading King and a little Koontz (and way too much Pike and Stine), but there are so many fascinating titles that predate those greats. Feel free to suggest older horror books and why they'd make a great addition to this list in the comments.

This list covers books from the first chapter Hail Satan, see my other lists first the other chapters (8 total). The real cannon of the horror genre… books from Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell. Some of these may be hard or impossible to acquire but putting them here in case I come across them. I’m having so much fun reading his book and wanted to make a list of the paperbacks he discusses to possibly add to my tbr at some point.

This is one of my favourite movie genres so I thought I’d make a list for books!

Books from chapter 2: Creepy Kids from Grady Hendrix’s nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell. This chapter focuses on books about creepy kids- including possessed kids, killer kids, dolls, clowns, magicians, and adults imagined horrors of d&d (dungeons and dragons)

1 state, 1 book

Horror novels that were so horrific they got adapted for the silver scream! Only select Stephen King titles to keep this from being The Stephen King Show :')

my personal tbr