John Halkin

Halkin wrote for the British horror paperback market of the nineteen eighties, when publishers wanted animals turning on humanity and cover art to match. Slither is eels, Squelch is caterpillars, Blood Worm is exactly what the title says, and all three are as gruesome as the format permitted, which was very. He worked in television as well and wrote tie-in novels alongside the horror. Collectors and reprint houses have gone back over that whole wave lately, so the books get read now partly as documents of a publishing moment that lasted about a decade and then stopped dead.