Typical Books of Terror | Let's Go Play at the Adams' • The classic disturbing horror fiction book @typicalbooks | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let's Go Play At The Adams’ is often compared to Jack Ketchum’s book The Girl Next Door and is the only novel by Mendel W. Johnson. Published in 1974, the year before I was born, I felt a need to review this especially since it has wildly varying praise and scorn.
A current cult classic it seemed to be hard to get hold of through the years, being reissued a couple of times. In 1974 came out by the small company and these are those coveted hardbacks you might see for $100 at Abe books. That company was incidentally bought out by Harper. This was released in the 80s by Bantam Books and this is probably, I'm just guessing here, what most of the paperback copies at least see are from. Then, of course, with much fanfare, this book was chosen by Grady Hendrix and Will Erickson and whoever else is there is at play to be reprinted after being featured in Paperbacks from Hell.
From what I understood going into this it was a grimy novel talking about coming of age and rape and violence and I wasn't sure if it was rape-revenge because I never got into spoiler territory with any of the descriptions.
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Let's Go Play At The Adams’ is often compared to Jack Ketchum’s book The Girl Next Door and is the only novel by Mendel W. Johnson. Published in 1974, the year before I was born, I felt a need to review this especially since it has wildly varying praise and scorn.
A current cult classic it seemed to be hard to get hold of through the years, being reissued a couple of times. In 1974 came out by the small company and these are those coveted hardbacks you might see for $100 at Abe books. That company was incidentally bought out by Harper. This was released in the 80s by Bantam Books and this is probably, I'm just guessing here, what most of the paperback copies at least see are from. Then, of course, with much fanfare, this book was chosen by Grady Hendrix and Will Erickson and whoever else is there is at play to be reprinted after being featured in Paperbacks from Hell.
From what I understood going into this it was a grimy novel talking about coming of age and rape and violence and I wasn't sure if it was rape-revenge because I never got into spoiler territory with any of the descriptions.
✮✮✮✮✮✮
All socials and news: https://linktr.ee/LydiaPeever
Have questions? You can leave a voicemail here and I may play it on the show! speakpipe.com/TypicalBooks
Music by ænorex ▹ aenorex.com
music used by permission of the artist
For more, subscribe to the Typical Books Monthly Magazine on:
Patreon ▹ patreon.com/typicalbooks
Gear I use to film:
Main camera - Nikon D5600 - flip-out screen ▹ amzn.to/3fnHuNd
Main lens - Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G Lens ▹ amzn.to/3d1DSio
LED USB Lights ▹ amzn.to/36e3qI8
Logitech C310 for Live Video ▹ amzn.to/30ETSGD
Most links in my video descriptions are affiliate links where I earn somehow when you use the services I do to make videos or for reading and relaxation ~ The opinions expressed herein are my own. If there are #horror books out there that you think I ought to read, let me know. I talk scary books, extreme horror, classic, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my #booktube shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.
✮ Thank you! ✮ Find books I have reviewed on Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/typicalbooks and shop local!
