Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dirt Candy | 2012 | Grady Hendrix | Buy |
| 2 | Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction | 2017 | Grady Hendrix | Buy |
| 3 | These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World | 2021 | Grady Hendrix | Buy |
Grady Hendrix’s non-fiction work shows his deep knowledge of pop culture history. Paperbacks from Hell (2017) is the standout, a lavishly illustrated history of the horror paperback original novels that flooded bookstores in the 1970s and 1980s. The book covers everything from haunted house novels to Satanic panic fiction, rescuing forgotten authors and outrageous cover art from obscurity.
Dirt Candy (2012) is a graphic novel cookbook based on the New York City vegetarian restaurant of the same name. These Fists Break Bricks (2021) examines how kung fu movies spread from Hong Kong to American theaters and changed popular culture. Together, these three books show Hendrix as a writer with wide-ranging interests beyond horror fiction.