I think the worst is also a guilty pleasure from high school. Sax Roehmer's Fu Manchu series had everything wrong with it and precious little to recommend it. Sexist, racist, illogical, coincidental plots, stiff dialogue, overwrought narrative....and I loved them. I don't know why. I just did. And I am also a person who waded through Varney the Vampire; the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest. Oh well.