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.
1948: Collier's Wortham Article: Horror in the Nurserytrello1948
The next year Dr. Frederic Wertham began his crusade against comic books, starting with an interview in Collier’s Magazine titled ‘HORROR IN THE NURSERY’ it would later be picked up by Reader’s Digest and also by local and national newspapers.
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