For someone who has been collecting horror reference books for over 30 years, John McCarty was a pretty prolific author of those types of books in my early days of collecting. The first one I can remember getting was Splatter Movies, which was first published in 1981, but re-released in an expanded hardcover edition in 1984. While I didn’t agree with McCarty a lot of the times, I admire the fact that he cranked out several volumes on the horror genre over his long career. From the two volumes in his Official Splatter Movie Guides, The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking, The Fearmakers, and more, he was out there talking about these films. And of course, I added each one to my library.