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

by Grady Hendrix

The six Guardian books were about square-jawed, tweed-and-blackbriar-pipe types investigating haunted houses, underwater vampires, voodoo cults, and Australians. Sort of like Scooby-Doo, only with more orgies.

If social and political anxiety spawns zombies, then economic anxiety births haunted houses.

Because after all the monsters have flown away, hope is what’s left at the bottom of the box.