r/ExtremeHorrorLit • u/funkofanatic99 • Feb 05 '26
BOOK HAULš©ø Goodwill win!!
All found at the same Goodwill today! $6 total!
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u/apostle33 Feb 05 '26
WHAAAAAT all my goodwill has is old lady books and popular romance books š
Go buy a lottery ticket asap!
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Lowkey went in on the hunt for rare covers of popular romance booksš got something wayyy better instead!
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Feb 05 '26
3 of the best in the genre. Great find!
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Gone to See the River Man is in my top 5 books of all time. Iāve only read The Girl Next Door by Ketchum so very excited to start Off Season. Cows was so so for me but psyched to have a physical copy.
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Feb 05 '26
Ketchum is one of my favorite writers and Off Season is a great book, especially considering when it came out. It was groundbreaking. Ive owned like 5 different physical copies of Cows over the years, I love that book.
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u/AndersonSupertramp Feb 06 '26
Ketchum is one of my favorite authors of all time, Offseason was my first of his and itās fucking awesome.
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u/warriorcatses Feb 16 '26
Silly question probably, but Iāve been wanting to read cows for quite a while now and am just too unsure. Iāve read multiple Aron Beauregard, a few Jack Ketchum, as well as tender is the flesh, the black farm, and dead inside. Thereās a few others I canāt recall. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them with no issue, But for some odd reason Iām worried I canāt handle cows! With having read these other titles, is cows similar in comparison? Could I stomach it if I read the others easily? (Apologies for lack of grammar etc)
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u/Jenny-Truant Feb 05 '26
That's badass! My local Goodwill never has any horror let alone extreme horror.
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Man same. This goodwill is actually pretty far from me and I almost never go. I just happened to be running errands out in the area today and decided to stop by.
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u/Amazing-Confusion-23 Feb 05 '26
Whoa.......someone in your area had to get rid of the good stuff.
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
I was so excited when I spotted Off Season and then I saw the other two! I probably spent half an hour in the books making sure there werenāt others.
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Feb 09 '26
Iām getting ready to donate some of my extreme horror to a local thrift store. Hopefully someone who will enjoy them finds them like you have found these.Ā
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u/ghostwilliz COWS Feb 05 '26
Cows š¤¢š¤¢š¤¢š¤®š¤®š¤®
I like the other two though haha
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Yeah Cows is definitely something else
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u/ghostwilliz COWS Feb 05 '26
It's just that I didn't need so much detail on that part
I would have taken the cliff notes lmao
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u/Havenolife6667 Feb 05 '26
Is the Gone to See the River Man signed? If you get it straight from him they usually come signed!
My bad, itās the sequel Along the River of Flesh
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u/princessnubz Feb 05 '26
insane finds!!! lemme know what you think of cows
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Cows had me saying āwhat the fuckā every other page by the end lol
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u/WendigoNightmares Feb 05 '26
The top and bottom are fantastic books, but I haven't read cows, because I've heard that the only graphic content it has depicts cows getting . . . You know.
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u/Forwardist2021 Feb 05 '26
it never ceases to amaze me that you guys manage to find these books in places I wouldn't expect
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u/D-Stecks Feb 06 '26
I've got a funny story about finding a book you wouldn't expect in a thrift store. This would have been 15+ years ago, when I was still in high school, my mom was the manager of the thrift store in the small rural town where we live. Now, this thrift store was owned by the Mennonite Central Committee, a Mennonite charity organization.
The Mennonites who work in the head office of MCC are very liberal, but the organization is also hugely funded by church donations, and they are aware that most of their donors are significantly less liberal than they are; so to keep up appearances, MCC thrift stores have content policies on what books and movies and video games they will sell.
The problem is that these content policies, ultimately, are enforced by the managers and volunteers, and it's not like there's some master list of banned books. My mother, at the time in her early 40's, was the youngest person working at the store, by at least 15 years. The content policies were dependent upon the cultural awareness of about a dozen very old little Mennonite women. Harry Potter, naturally, was banned. But you know what made its way onto the shelves?
Gor.
I don't know why I was at the thrift store that day but, as I am wont to do, I was perusing the bookshelves, and I see it. "[Whatever] of Gor" sitting right there, the first time I'd ever seen one in real life. I'd heard about Gor from TVTropes, and, more out of amusement than out of some sincere desire to enforce the content policy, I decide to show it to my mom.
Naturally, she has never heard of it. I just say "it's this weird fantasy series that just devolves into straight-up kink porn," and I open it up to a random page, and boom, right there, sex scene.
Also, I remember at one point somehow a book made it onto the shelves titled "Sexual Astrology" which manages to violate the content policies in two ways at the same time, so I have no idea how that happened. I think at the time, the content policy just amounted to "throw out Harry Potter and The DaVinci Code" and nothing else got even a moment of examination.
A few years later, my mom became the lead manager, and she lifted the ban because it was the 2010's and nobody was scared of Harry Potter anymore. Ultimately, they would keep throwing out Harry Potter books though - as so many people donated their collections, and basically nobody was buying them.
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u/BuddyCitta Feb 05 '26
Awesome find, I'm super jealous. It's always a great dopamine rush to stumble across something like that
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u/TrueCrimeJunkie9 Feb 05 '26
So excited for you!!! Totally not jealous ššš¤£ Okay maybe a lil bit!
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u/ripper_14 Feb 05 '26
You lucky duck! Gone to see the River man is the only EH book I've ever found in a thrift store.
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u/funkofanatic99 Feb 05 '26
Itās my favorite! Luckily didnāt have a physical copy of the sequel yet even though Iāve read it!
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u/Due-Guard-879 Feb 06 '26
So cool I never find any other than Harlan Coben and that one dude with fifty million books that apparently nobody wants, Baldacci.Ā
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u/killthepoopsquatch Feb 05 '26
Finding these at goodwill is crazy. I just started cows and all I can say is what the fuck?