Grady Hendrix Presents:The Paperbacks from Hell

Itinerant Literate Books and Commonhouse Aleworks are thrilled to host Grady Hendrix for his one-of-a-kind show, The Paperbacks from Hell.

Stop by Commonhouse on November 7 to catch this incomparable experience! Itinerant Literate will have the author's books on hand for sale, including the option to preorder SIGNED copies of his upcoming book, (pub: January 14, 2025), as well as a selection of the featured titles from the show.

In the early 1970s, three books changed horror forever: Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Other. The first horror novels to hit bestseller lists since 1940, they opened the floodgates for an avalanche of horror paperbacks to flood supermarket and drugstore shelves throughout the 1970s and '80s before Silence of the Lambs slit the genre's throat in the early '90s.

Now, New York Times–bestselling author Grady Hendrix delivers his award-winning, mind-melting oral history of this wild and woolly world of Nazi leprechauns, skeleton doctors, killer crabs, killer jellyfish, and killer fetuses, featuring more tales of terrifying tots, tricycles, clowns, puppets, and heavy metal bands than should be strictly legal.

Prepare yourself for a tour of this long-lost universe of terror that lurked behind the lurid, foil-embossed, die-cut covers of...The Paperbacks from Hell!!!!

Host or Publisher Itinerant Literate Books