Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
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If you’ve read five horror novels from the ’80s, then you’ve read four prologues set during WWII.
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The message seemed to be that women should have babies by finding them in a cabbage patch or receiving them from a stork, the way nature intended, rather than using their dangerous, weird-looking wombs.
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Erma Bombeck said, “A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.”
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Because the only things scarier than children are their toys.
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First came Jaws by Peter Benchley, a novel about a stressed-out great white shark suffering from portion control issues.
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At least the Lord of Darkness wasn’t a carcinogen.
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In a stroke of poor planning, apparently the majority of America’s rural communities had been built on cursed land.
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Back in the ’80s we didn’t know that one day all computers would be linked and turned into a giant delivery system for pornography and cat pictures,
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don’t want to write an autobiography,” she said. “My life isn’t finished yet.” A year later, she was dead.