![]() ![]() He was prolific and, for my mileage, consistently good I looked forward to every story. Back then, it was hard to find a small press horror magazine that didn’t contain a Bentley Little story. His tales appeared The Horror Show, Eldritch Tales, Cavalier, Space & Time, Grue, Thin Ice, Cemetery Dance, After Hours and more. That entailed ordering sample copies from any magazine that looked promising and had an address listed in the Writer’s Market. ![]() ![]() I was a teenage author myself at the time, trying to break into the more prestigious small press magazines. The first Bentley Little story I read was “Skin” in the Winter 1988 issue of The Horror Show. For the past decade or more, his novels were the only straight horror titles you could find on a paperback rack in the grocery store. Up until 2012, Signet published a new horror novel by Bentley Little in mass market paperback every year. Indeed, while the careers of the many perfectly good horror scribes ended up in a ditch by the mid-1990s, Little’s popularity carried him through. Bentley Little is an American author of horror fiction and, in my opinion, the last great horror author to emerge from the 1980’s horror boom. ![]()
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