I don't know your situation, but I only buy thrifted books, and I've never spent more than like £15 for a book and that's usually the art books only, you can get real good stuff for less than a fiver.
Okay, I was actually gonna bring this up under another comment, but there is a well known sense of empowerment people feel from being portrayed as the spooky villain, there's a great documentary about black people in horror which escapes me right now, but it looks at this phenomenon in more detail.
Carve a swastika into his forehead and we'll call it even.