![]() ![]() But now, dirty foreigners were sharing a common market and that meant that while Merrye Olde England would get access to European goods, on the other hand rabid European foxes, dogs, and snails suddenly had access to British people. ![]() Rabies was a problem in France and Germany, but not so much in England which was protected by the Channel and hadn’t seen an indigenous death by rabies since 1902, or domestic rabies transmitted to a human since the 1920's. Rabies anxiety gripped England in '77, possibly because, as pointed out by Jim O’Brien in his excellent article on rabies books in Pulp Horror #6, after a long period of lobbying and a public referendum, England had joined the European Economic Community (or, the Common Market) in 1973. If brown corduroy was a literary genre, Rabid would be its flagship example. Seemingly taking its cues from the 1976 Public Information Films Service-produced PSA “Keep Rabies Out”, it’s written in a sort of tweedy government leaflet style. Out of all of these foam-flecked creations, David Anne’s Rabid was the first, and probably the best. ![]()
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