Laura really, really, really hates her mom, but she doesn’t fully understand why yet. Unfortunately for them, Laura, the new baby, is the reincarnation of Molly, T.J.’s old girlfriend. Then he knocks up a different girl, Kate, and marries her even though he only loves Molly. unknowingly gets his girlfriend Molly pregnant and then moves away. My reading list is fairly lengthy, but it was only a few weeks before I gave in to temptation and bumped this novel to the front of my list. I tried to convey my excitement to my wife, but she didn’t seem to care. I got out of there as quickly as I could, expecting to hear sirens behind me once somebody realised the daylight robbery I had just committed. I assumed that she was going to recognise what I had in my hand, but she just smiled back and charged me 9 dollars for the three novels. Like a thief in the night, I tiptoed to the counter, put my books down and smiled at the old lady. I had to get out of there before another collector saw what I had and a fight broke out. I grabbed another horror novel and sandwiched the Clown between that and The Ceremonies to make it less conspicuous. This was the Holy Grail of collectible horror paperbacks. There are three rows of paperbacks on every shelf, and it was at the back row of the bottom shelf that I found a copy of The Voice of the Clown with 2.00 written on the cover. Klein’s The Ceremonies, a book I’ve wanted to read for a while, and with renewed vigour I turned to a bookcase that I hadn’t yet searched through. This time, I spent a good half hour without finding anything, but I didn’t want to walk by the owner of the shop without buying anything, so I continued my search. It’s super cheap, and has the biggest selection of paperbacks in my city, but it’s entirely disorganized, and over the course of several visits, I’ve cleaned out most of the horror novels. I was enticed, but after seeing the prices that it goes for online, I decided not to get too interested as I would never pay that much for a book.Ī few weeks ago, I went to one of my favourite local bookshops. Grady Hendrix has apparently claimed that this is the one book that actually lived up to the ‘from Hell’ title and that it is the only book to ever make his jaw drop. This title had escaped my notice when I first read Paperbacks from Hell, but I googled it after seeing it mentioned a few times and discovered the reason for its scarcity. I check other blogs and discuss books with other nerds on twitter, and I noticed that the ‘paperback from Hell’ that is most frequently mentioned because of its scarcity is Brenda Brown Canary’s The Voice of the Clown. Some were really good ( The Cipher, The Tribe), and others were truly terrible ( Brotherkind, The Manse).Īt this stage, the demand for many of these novels has diminished slightly, and books that were 300 hundred dollars are now available for 50 or 60. Now, two years later, I have read and reviewed 20 of the books featured in Paperbacks in Hell. I ordered some online, found others in thrift stores, and downloaded pdfs of others. After a bit of hunting, I managed to get my hands on copies of all of my first picks.
I made a list of the ones that I needed to read (most of which included the word Satan in the title) and tried to forget about the rest. The Voice of the Clown – Brenda Brown CanaryĪfter Paperbacks from Hell came out, quite a few of the books featured therein became hard to find.
It was recently reissued by Valancourt Books, and as you probably know, Valancourt specialise in reprinting books that really deserve to be reprinted. I strongly suggest that you pick up a copy. This is a short review, but The Happy Man is a short book.
This is definitely more of a horror novel than any of Ellis’s work though.
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It reminded me of Bret Easton Ellis’s early novels – The Happy Man set in the 80s and the characters are affluent professional Californians who are apathetic to the suffering of others. I won’t say anything else about the story because you should really just read the book for yourself. In fact, I really didn’t notice it until I was finished and started thinking about what I had just read. The plot is a little bit underdeveloped, but the telling of the tale makes this shortcoming pretty easy to forgive. This new guy is a very, very, very bad influence. When a new family move in next door, he makes friends with the husband, and things start to get messy pretty quickly. The plot centers around a man in his early 30s who’s beginning to wonder if there’s any more to life than his marriage, his nice house and his comfortable job. Here’s a snappy little horror novel that took me all of an evening to finish.
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