In 1967 he went to work as a writer for a publishing company called "Countrywide Publications", which published a string of low-grade tabloid publications sold mainly at supermarket checkout counters. He wrote completely fabricated stories with headlines like "Wife Grinds Up Children, Feeds Them to Goldfish", "Barber Shoves Scissors Up Girlfriend's Nostrils" and "Man Gets Horse Organ in Sexual Transplant".