Conversations - The Book Graveyard

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/da/39/b5/da39b5bb-bab7-0ce6-1f45-0d9888fbfd0e/mza_6740045490229922168.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

Paperback Warrior

137 episodes

4 days ago

Paperback Warrior is an American content creator that specializes in critiquing vintage fiction. The creator's flagship is it's eponymous blog that contains over 2,000 comprehensive posts about vintage and contemporary fiction including media such as comic books, graphic novels, pulps, action-adventure magazines, digests, black and white magazines, comic strips, and movie and television tie-in content. Additionally, the brand's owner, Christopher Eric Compton, hosts the Paperback Warrior Podcast, an outreach of the blog featuring reviews, author biographies, publisher histories, bookstore guides, buying tips, interviews, and analytic commentary about the 19th and 20th century publishing industry. The brand's YouTube channel contains over 200 videos that channels the same spirit as the blog and podcast with additional commentary about Eric's national bookstore experiences and a monthly ranking video of the prior month's reads.

Paperback Warrior continues to collaborate with publishers such as Stark House Press, Black Gat Books, Brash Books, Cutting Edge Books, Wolfpack Publishing, Rough Edges, and Encyclopocalypse. The brand also incorporates affiliate partnerships with Amazon, Abe Books, and YouTube with Ad Sense.

Media and publishers can contact the brand at paperbackwarrior@yahoo.com.

FOLLOW ME HERE!
▸ Subscribe
▸ X
▸ Donate
▸ Blog
▸ Spreaker Podcasts

Videos Everyone Loves:
▸ Ranking the Dean R. Koontz Books
▸ Paperbacks from Hell
▸ Ranking the Stephen King Night Shift Stories
▸ Used Bookstore Blitz!

#Action #Adventure #Mystery #Thriller #Suspense #BookReview #Reviews #Novel #Paperback #Vintage #Fiction #Read #Reading #Crime #Crime-Noir #Noir #Whodunit #Sleuth #Detective #Investigate #War #Battle #Combat #Spy #Espionage #Spy-Fiction #Secret Agent #Cold War #Spies #Horror #Scary #Stories #Pulp #Pulp Fiction #Heroes #Comics #Graphic Novels #Terror #Scary Stories #Scary Story #Creepy #Eerie #Fantasy #Science-Fiction #Sci-Fi #Gothic #Sword and Sorcery #Old Comics #Old Books #Old Magazines #WWII #Vietnam War #Book

All content for Paperback Warrior is the property of Paperback Warrior and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Conversations - The Book Graveyard

Paperback Warrior

54 minutes

3 weeks ago

Conversations - The Book Graveyard

The Brooding Lake – A Gothic Gem Resurrected

In this episode of Paperback Warrior: Conversations, our host joins forces with Nick Anderson of YouTube’s Book Graveyard to unearth a haunting treasure from 1953 — The Brooding Lake by Dorothy Eden. Originally published twice by Dell, this classic gothic novel drips with atmosphere, mystery, and psychological tension. Together, they explore what makes The Brooding Lake a true gothic masterpiece — from its stormy setting to its shadowy secrets — and put it to the ultimate test: Does it pass The Guide to Gothics checklist? Along the way, they draw uncanny parallels between Eden’s mid-century suspense and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, revealing how both works blur the line between beauty and menace. Tune in for literary analysis, dark nostalgia, and a touch of the uncanny — all in one brooding conversation.

You can also watch this as a video presentation HERE.

Paperback Warrior