Let's Go Play at the Adams' (B&N Exclusive Edition)

by Mendal W. Johnson, Grady Hendrix (Introduction)

Overview

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Have you had your mind blown by Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix? Let's Go Play at the Adams' is next up, and it is going to have you checking your webcams during date night.

This B&N Exclusive Edition features unique cover details in an exclusive trade paperback format.

This special Paperbacks from Hell reissue includes an introduction by New York Times best-selling author Grady Hendrix.

TONIGHT THE KIDS ARE TAKING CARE OF THE BABYSITTER

"They're just kids...It's only a game." That's what Barbara, a lovely twenty-year-old babysitter told herself when she awoke bound and gagged. But the knots were tight and painful and the children would not let her go.

"They're just kids...It's only a game," she told herself again. But the terror was real...and deadly!

In the decades since its original publication, Mendal W. Johnson's best-seller Let's Go Play at the Adams' (1974) has gained a reputation as one of the most harrowing horror novels ever written, and copies have long been unobtainable except at exorbitant prices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683694182
Publisher:	Quirk Publishing
Publication date:	09/19/2023
Edition description:	B&N Exclusive Edition
Sales rank:	54,881
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mendal W. Johnson was a journalist and avid boatman. His only novel, Let's Go Play with the Adams' (1974) gained a reputation as one of the most shocking and disturbing horror novels ever written. Johnson died in 1976.

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, The Final Girl Support Group and How to Sell a Haunted House. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell and These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.