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A rosey red apple bleeds from a stab wound in this close up of Darryl Zudeck's cover illustration
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Thrift Store Finds: The Substitute Teacher

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on March 11, 2020April 5, 2020
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There is a very thin line between educator and insan-in-ator.

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Satanic chalice with a demon's face
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Thrift Store Finds: Worship the Night

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on February 27, 2020April 16, 2020
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Remember the time your mom found you masturbating? One minute you were just sitting in your closet, wedged between your old stuffed animals, minding your own business, so to speak, and the next you were covering your crotch in horror while your mom served out a laundry list of warnings on just what happened to bad children like you.

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Title treatment for the horror novel What's Wrong With Valerie
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Thrift Store Finds: What’s Wrong With Valerie?

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on February 12, 2020April 5, 2020
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We all go through that phase where we have to grapple with the concept of reality. . . . Right?

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Close up shot of an illustrated bloody ax covered in wrapping paper.
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Thrift Store Finds: Black Christmas

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 15, 2019December 21, 2020
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Before we get too deep, this is not THAT “Black Christmas.”

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Evil Santa's reflection in a jingle bell on the cover of Jo Gibson's Slay Bells
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Thrift Store Finds: Slay Bells

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 8, 2019April 5, 2020
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You better watch out, you better not cry. Santa Clause is coming to decimate a bunch of teens.

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Soul Eater house from Dana Brookins' horror novel
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Thrift Store Finds: Soul Eater

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on December 2, 2019April 5, 2020
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Dana Brookins’ Soul Eater checks the boxes of a classic haunted house book: flawed characters, a run down town, skeptics, believers. And yet in classic mid-80s fashion, it still ends up marching to the beat of its own drum.

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Title treatment for The Devil's Footsteps by John Burke
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Thrift Store Finds: The Devil’s Footsteps

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on October 23, 2019April 5, 2020
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Hail . . . Satan?

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Cover design for "The Cellar," featuring a door knob and claw marks.
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Thrift Store Finds: THE CELLAR, or “What Did I Just Read?”

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on October 8, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 3 Comments

You’ll find a bit more than the regular basement fare down here.

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A crop of the cover design for the book "Scarecrow."
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Thrift Store Finds: SCARECROW

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 22, 2019April 5, 2020
  • 4 Comments

I think we can all agree the scarecrow sub genre could use more good stories.

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A close crop of the cover art for "Spook," featuring a day-glo blue skull
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Thrift Store Finds: SPOOK

  • Adrienne Clark
  • posted on September 18, 2019April 5, 2020
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I’m back, back, back again with spooky girls and serious spoilers, but you should journey forward anyway, I promise. *** If there is one disturbing thing in Steve Vance’s Spook, it’s […]

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