William Tenn said this quote

“ 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) ”