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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9853938" data-attributes="member: 86653">I’m reading through the book Paperbacks from Hell about horror paperbacks from the 70s and 80s. It’s quite good and really funny. Lots of wonderful art. I’m making a list of books to read based on cover and premise, there’s also some overlap with the Garth Marenghi research so that’s nice.First up is The Little People by John Christopher. I love gonzo insanity so the cover and the premise: Gestapo Leprechauns, really sold me on the book. To say the actual book is a huge let down is a massive understatement. Despite the cover and the premise, The Little People is really a multi-family soap opera with these strangers together at a hotel. About 80% of the book is the characters talking and fighting while enjoying the view from their hotel. The titular small folk appear for maybe 30 pages of the 200-page book, are vaguely psychic, and can sort meddle with people’s dreams…which they do once to no real effect. They make one woman fall down (without getting hurt) and are scattered by a single kick. [ISPOILER]They’re mutated humans that are the result of Nazi mad science[/ISPOILER]. Single most underwhelming book I think I’ve ever read.The Puppet Master movies deliver in spades on vaguely a similar premise.</blockquote>