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

by Grady Hendrix

Every fetus eventually turns into a child,

Wow, someone in Hollywood actually realized this?

A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.

A coat and tie on your wee whippersnapper (Seed of Evil) says either “tiny funeral director” or “psychopath.”

For all the grandeur of its self-regard, magic consists of nothing more than making a total stranger feel stupid.

However, most of us would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between a scorpion grimacing in rage and one giggling with glee. Maybe that’s why they hate us. We spend so much time swatting, slapping, spraying, and squeezing them to death that we never really take the time to get to know them as individuals.

Steve tries to tell Sara his problems, but she doesn’t want to hear how he murdered two people and ate a dog. All that happened over there, in the Middle East. He’s home now.