Blood on Black Wax

This new, expanded edition of Blood on Black Wax contains 32 additional pages (and soundtrack titles) from the last printing, along with enhanced limited edition packaging (i.e., foil cover elements + gilded foil page edges).

Blood on Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl is the successful predecessor to last year's Planet Wax: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Soundtracks on Vinyl.

Vinyl LPs are not only popular again (i.e., it's currently the highest-selling music format, surpassing CDs), but soundtracks in particular are top sellers, and nearly every horror movie has been re-released on vinyl in the last ten years.

Blood on Black Wax contains over 250 full-color LP covers, along with fascinating backstories and interviews. For vinyl collectors, or more generally fans of horror films, this is a nostalgic trip back into the films and their related music from the 1970s through the present. Films include the popular series A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Child's Play, The Exorcist, Scream, It, and many stand-alone classics including The Shining, Carrie, Rosemary's Baby, Children of the Corn, Get Out, and The Babadook.

Authors Aaron Lupton, Jeff Szpirglas, and 1984 Publishing will once again schedule personal appearances in 2021 and 2022 (post-Covid vaccine), in conjunction with trade and pop-culture oriented shows.

Please note that the expanded edition will release on the same day as the expanded edition of the complimentary 1984 title Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1970s and 1980s (ISBN 9781948221184), so cross-promotion/sales opportunities are possible.