I saw The Killing Gift in a bin of cheap old paperbacks and was immediately sucked in by the cover. It was one of the few places my husband and I enjoyed spending time in when we lived in the Binghamton area. I picked this book up several years ago in this cool shop in Vestal, NY called Sound Go Round that sells used books, DVDs/Blurays, vinyl, tapes, CDs, video games, tabletop games, clothing, and more. I’m giving it a mediocre rating because I feel like some serious opportunities were missed, and I can’t get past the outdated ideas about women and casual racism typical of the late ’70s. It’s actually highly enjoyable and features fantastic writing, and I recommend it to anyone interested. The Putnam Prize-winning The Killing Giftis definitely not trash. Some are actually amazing stories, and some are, again, trash. These are classics, once considered pulp, now highly sought after books. The Paperbacks from Hell community could be considered the horror book community’s equivalent of tape collecting. This has really spoken to collectors and inspired a lot of bargain bin diving and Ebay hunting. In fact, her book The Tribe is part of Valancourt’s Paperbacks From Hell series of select ’70s and ’80s classic paperbacks, curated by our favorite Grady Hendrix and inspired by his own Paperbacks from Hell nonfiction exploration of the pulp horror fiction paperbacks published in these decades. Bari Wood has found a home in the Paperbacks from Hell contingent.
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