the voice of the clown brenda brown canary

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.

The voice of the clown brenda brown canary