Double bill: The Gerunding and The Nice-Making
In the dark wake of Stephen King’s breakthrough horror novel The Shining came countless titles with that same linguistical form; i.e., the gerund: take a verb and turn it into a noun. In the late ’70s and on into the ’80s virtually every paperback publisher issued their own versions of a title considered one of the seminal texts of its era, if not the entire horror genre. I can’t imagine any of them have even a tenth of the power of King’s and these types of titles are beyond ripe for parody. I’ve gathered but a smattering – natch – of those books here. The Changing and The Feeding easily have the best – or the “best” – cover art, although the monstrous fetus of The Reaping has a kind of tasteless charm to it too.
Just discovered via Flavorwire: Too Much Horror Fiction, a site devoted to horror literature of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, especially the ones with cheesy cover art. It’s a scream.
More horrifying than any 70s paperback cover: Who Killed Sarcasm? We’re trapped in an era of sincerity. Let us out! (This goes out to Ige, who gets into fights he didn’t know he started. We don’t like emoticons either. If you have to use emoticons, you’re not wicked enough.)
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