![]() ![]() ![]() Hendrix has proclaimed it “thrilling and awesome and grotesque in all the best ways,” and “the only book to make my jaw drop on more than one occasion.” Hence the online stampede of interested readers (and my biggest overall complaint about PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: it’s turned what were formerly considered disposable commodities into expensive collectors’ items, meaning the days when it was possible to obtain a vintage horror paperback for under $5.00 are long gone). It took until 2017, with the release of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL by Grady Hendrix, for THE VOICE OF THE CLOWN to achieve its current ranking as the internet’s most widely sought-after (after BIG GURL) horror novel. ![]() For much of its existence this long out-of-print novel was just another of the countless undistinguished horror paperbacks that cluttered the 1980s fiction market. ![]()
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