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All those years of lurid magazine covers showing extremely nubile females being menaced in three distinct colors by assorted monstrosities; those horror movies, those invasion-from-outer-space novels, those Sunday supplement fright splashes—all those sturdy psychological ruts I had to re-track. Not to mention the shudders elicited by mention of ‘worms,’ the regulation distrust of even human “furriners,” the superstitious dread of creatures who had no visible place to park a soul.(“Betelgeuse Bridge)
