diff --git a/Title Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted.md b/Hendrix Grady - Paperbacks from Hell.md similarity index 100% rename from Title Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted.md rename to Hendrix Grady - Paperbacks from Hell.md diff --git a/Title Pet Sematary.md b/King Stephen - Pet Sematary.md similarity index 100% rename from Title Pet Sematary.md rename to King Stephen - Pet Sematary.md diff --git a/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md b/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md deleted file mode 100644 index 195c2a5..0000000 --- a/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,71 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction -tags: [ readinglist/read ] ---- - -# Title: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction -## Author: [[Grady Hendrix]] - -**Started Reading**: 2020-09-04 - -**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-05 - -[Goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33670466-paperbacks-from-hell) - -#readinglist/read - - -## Highlights -* Introduction - "The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. Shortly after we meet them, the author lets us know that these are not just any Nazi leprechauns. These are psychic Nazi leprechauns who enjoy S&M, are covered with scars from pleasure/pain sessions with their creator, were trained as sex slaves for full-sized human men, and are actually stunted fetuses taken from Jewish concentration camp victims. And one of them is named Adolph." - The Little People (John Christopher) - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "McGill, who returned in 1982 to write an Omen novel not based on a film, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, which opens with a scene of rectal childbirth" - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "1974’s [[Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'|Let’s Go Play at the Adams’]] still elicits passionate loathing. Search online and you’ll find readers who describe destroying the book after finishing it, who write about being left ill, about how sick the author must have been." - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "Fictional clowns come with a body count. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop-Frog (1849) was a dwarf forced to be a jester who burned eight courtiers to death." - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "The Voice of the Clown (1982) would be the snarling six-year-old standing slightly to the side, staring into the camera, clutching a clown doll. Her name is Laura, and she sees right through you. Whatever tricks you try to make her like you, she and her clown are ready." - The Voice of the Clown (Brenda Brown Canary) - **Note**: [Nocturnal Revelries Link](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2020/02/16/the-voice-of-the-clown-brenda-brown-canary/) - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 1984, the year Jack Chick published his infamous anti-RPG (role-playing game) tract Dark Dungeons, claiming that these dice-and-paper games were a gateway to satanism and suicide." - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "[[Reading List - Mazes and Monsters|Mazes and Monsters]] is best remembered today for its TV movie adaptation, which aired in 1982 and featured Tom Hanks in his first leading role, as Pardieu the Holy Man, freaking out on the streets of New York before trying to jump off the World Trade Center." - **Note** The book and the movie are both good late-night, b-rated fun - -* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids - "Hobgoblin (1981). - Protagonist Scott Gardiner is exactly the kind of kid Jaffe warned us was vulnerable to RPGs’ lurid lure: brilliant, creative, socially awkward, and with a dead dad. He’s also into a truly terrible RPG called Hobgoblin" - **Note** Hey! I like this book! - -* Chapter 3: When Animals Attack - "It was the year punk rock broke: 1974. It was also the year James Herbert published The Rats, which is pretty much the same thing." - -* Chapter 4: Real Estate Nightmares - "But it all started with Robert Marasco’s Burnt Offerings (1973), a chilling tale about a family who escapes the city to move into a summer rental... from hell." - -* Chapter 5: Weird Science - "In Little Brother (1983), aliens land on Earth in 1908 and take over the Soviet Union. By 1983 they've infiltrated the American market with an iPad-esque toy called the Possum, which beams addictive subliminal messages into the brains of good American kids." - -* Chapter 6: Gothic and Romantic - "The story of the Dollanganger children, locked away by their mother, poisoned by their grandmother, and falling in love with each other, became Flowers in the Attic." - -* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps - "the PMRC publicly demanded that record labels reassess the contracts of musicians who performed violent or sexualized stage shows. They managed to hold Senate hearings on explicit lyrics and “porn rock,” which accomplished little except to show Americans that Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider was more levelheaded and informed than Tipper Gore." - -* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps - "The first female character in The Scream is introduced to readers as we’re invited to look up her skirt. The second is “all tits and tan and perfect even teeth.” Then she’s murdered." - -* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps - "Graham Masterton dominated the first cover of Frighteners with his outrageous cannibal-kid story “Eric the Pie,” which evoked instant outrage. The publisher pulled the magazine from newsstands, and it limped through two more issues before shutting down." - -* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps - "In February 1991 the first Abyss book, The Cipher by Kathe Koja, hit the racks. A sharply observed slice of early-’90s bohemia, it was about a couple of starving artists in a dying Rust Belt city who find a hole in their storage space. Dubbing it the Funhole (the original title of the book), they discover that anything organic fed into the Funhole comes out disturbingly mutated" - -[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md b/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md deleted file mode 100644 index ac187af..0000000 --- a/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Reading List - Pet Sematary -tags: [ readinglist/read ] ---- - -# Title: Pet Sematary - -## Author: [[Stephen King]] - -**Started Reading**: unknown - -**Finished Reading**: unknown - -This is probably my all-time favorite book. - -## Highlights - -> That’s what you do, all right, he thought with immeasurable relief. You pass it like a stone, and that’s the end of it... unless there comes a campfire some night with friends when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap. - -> He raised his face into the wind after the door had clicked closed, the garbage bag with Church’s body in it riffling between his feet. -> Content. -> Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood. -> Something gonna happen here, Bubba. Something pretty weird, I think. - -> Days which seem genuinely good—good all the way through—are rare enough anyway, he thought. It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man's life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. - -> It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls—as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself. - -[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file