Long before television and video games, or before comic books and D&D, novels were the new and scary form of entertainment. They were accused of corrupting the youth, of planting dangerous ideas into the heads of housewives, and distracting everyone from more serious, important books.
1900 Dime-Novel Reader in Jailmerged1900
π Mon, Mar 26, 1900 Β· Page 1
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