More Than You Care to Know About Monsters by Dick Smith

Without Warning, 1981, by Fern Michaels (a prolific romance novelist whose Wikipedia page doesn't even list this one, lol)

When I first started looking for old horror paperbacks, this wasn't the first one I bought, but it was the first one that awakened me to the joys hiding in the racks. This one was in the lobby of a second-floor bookstore, who had lined the entryway and stairs up with shelves of cheap paperbacks; the delight I felt when I reached in to look at this one and saw SANTA HOLDING A BOMB is indescribable.

The cover is literal, too: this is a book about a psychic girl hunting a killer mall Santa. There's an entire middle passage where she goes and lives in his house for a few hours, which turns out to be irrelevant, bc it's a psychic impression left in another person's photo that cracks the case. There's also a memorable vignette about a sick little kid across the street begging to go to the mall to meet Santa seeing him leaving the bombs on the roof, and waving to him cheerfully

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.5 out of 5) Review: Hobgoblin has been on my tbr for so long and I’m glad I finally got around to reading it. I debated about what rating to give this book because I really enjoyed it. The plot of this story was unique as it was a mix of DND, gothic mystery, and horror. I thought the characters were written really well and I got attached to them. I loved the setting and premise…

Vintage Paperback - Bleak November by Rohan O'Grady