At last!

[martinlivings]

Even since I wrote Carnies, I've been talking about how it was inspired by the cheap remainered paperback horror novels I used to read as a boy. But the title of one that had a huge impact on me had eluded me for many years.

Until last night, when i finally remembered it. The Tribe. A generic title, unfortunately, but a series of intense Google searches later, I actually found it. So now I can officially name the three novels that I remember best from those halcyon days, three books I bought for peanuts from a revolving stand in my local deli that warped changed me forever. They are:

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight



Snowman, Norman Bognor



The Tribe, Glenn Chandler



Now, I'm in no way saying these books are classics. Heck, I doubt they're even good. But for my highly-impressionable mind, they were the beginnings of a career. These are the kinds of books I'd like to write, because I don't think anyone's doing it anymore. Pulp horror, gross and fun and exciting.

I love it!

Comments

[splanky.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Glad you finally found it.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Dunno about Snow Man, but if you go look at Leisure Books pretty sure there is some stuff resembling this.

Just the covers are less black, these days.

[chuckmck1.livejournal.com]

I've not read the last two, but I also 'grew up' with The Fungus, and several other Harry Adam Knight classics (such as the pre-Jurassic Park 'Carnosaur'). Plenty of gratuitous sex, violence and gore. As you say, nobody's writing stuff like that anymore.

Oh, except for Shaun Hutson, and he doesn't count because his writing is almost unreadably bad.