![]() Our local library stocked several of the Alfred Hitchcock anthologies that were published in the 1960s and 70s, bearing titles such as The Best of Fiends, Ghostly Gallery, Happiness is a Warm Corpse and Tales to Take Your Breath Away. ![]() If this was typical of most branches of WH Smith’s – certainly the only book retailer in any of our surrounding towns – then one might have been forgiven for thinking that horror was perhaps not as expansive as it once was earlier in the decade. Over the years I collected them all, and read them diligently. Occasionally there would be titles by John Saul. I was always drawn to the HORROR section (for such a thing existed back then, believe it or not) and the books that comprised it were largely written by Stephen King or James Herbert or Guy N Smith or Shaun Hutson or Graham Masterton. ![]() Our nearest WH Smith’s was in Worksop, a half-hour bus-journey away which we took every week. ![]() Growing up, as I did, in a mining village in northern England, bookshops were a little hard to come by. ![]()
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