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

by Grady Hendrix

Why would aliens travel all that way to eat us? Don’t they have food on their home planets? Well, what if they’re not aliens at all? Leave it to J. N. Williamson to reveal the truth. Brotherkind (1987) starts as your typical abduction story, with Sheila gangbanged on a UFO by a bunch of midget aliens who must use the power of their collective semen to overcome her DNA’s natural resistance. Also, Bigfoot joins in because he was hitching a lift. Returning home, she finds hypnosis, and love, in the arms of parapsychologist Martin Ruben, but the two are menaced by Men in Black. Rubin unravels the conspiracy: alien Greys have teamed up with Bigfoot and the Men in Black and Mothman to seed humanity with alien/human babies. P.S., they’re not aliens at all, but part of a hidden race that we used to call fairies. Ever since Eisenhower sold us out to the Greys in 1954, our planet has become a one-stop shopping solution for every jerk with a flying saucer. Credit 106 Fortunately, Martin is able to melt the Men in Black and the Greys with the power of the rock band KISS, specifically their hit “Firehouse,” which he finds on an “acid rock” station. Then he simply refuses to believe in Bigfoot until his aggressive disbelief makes the ten-foot-tall manimal fall apart. Tragically, he cannot reach Sheila in time and her hybrid baby is abducted. The book ends with the author assuring us, as any good scientist would, that although the story we have just read is not true, it’s also not not tr...