Topic summary
Horror novels
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Horror fiction.
20th century
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the enormous commercial success of three books – Rosemary's Baby (1967) by Ira Levin, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, and The Other by Thomas Tryon – encouraged publishers to begin releasing numerous other horror novels, thus creating a "horror boom".