“Look around you. Everywhere. They are there. In every home - lurking in dark corners … small, bi-pedal entities with almost human brains play their games in which adults are the pawns. They play and wait for the time when they will take over the world!”

—  John Blair Moore

(on children), Invaders from Home Book 1 of 6, Piranha Press (1990).

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