Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

All the way back to Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, with its little creeps Flora and Miles, kids in fiction have been trouble.

Since time immemorial, humankind’s greatest natural predator has been the clown.

This is one issue on which carnivores and vegetarians must stand united: we must eat nature, or nature will eat us.