I decided to buy The Stigma after reading about it in PFH, but like so many of the texts featured therein, cheap copies of The Stigma became scarce for a while. This is ultimately quite a silly book, but I enjoyed it. Things get grosser and sillier as the book comes to a close, and the ending alone warrants its inclusion in PFH. Then I got to the bit where a naughty dog tries to rape someone and had to reevaluate my stance. Williamson in the pages of Paperbacks From Hell.
There were also some fairly scary moments, and by the halfway mark I was wondering if it was really fair for a book like this to have been listed alongside the work of J.N. This book starts off very serious, and there’s a bunch of references to real witch trials and the Brontë family that got me excited. I’ve never reviewed Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights on this blog, but they’re two of my favourite books, and the Brontë references left me moist. I don’t feel a need to go into much detail with these books as Grady and Will have done so already. Williams’s Martin Ruben series, Richard Jaccoma’s Werewolf series, and random Zebra and Tor books showing up here in the next few months.) The books in this post have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they were all featured in Grady Hendrix’s and Will Errickson’s Paperbacks From Hell and also reviewed by those guys online. (Expect posts on William Johnstone’s horror novels, J.N. Most of them are throwaway reads that don’t justify a post of their own, so I’ve been grouping them by series, authors and publishers. I’ve read quite a few paperback horror novels over the summer.
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