One of them is a giant red devil walking on all fours and grinning menacingly. The other is a ghoulish-looking man with razor sharp teeth and a top hat — a little like what would happen if the Monopoly man had a baby with the Babadook. Their names were Qued and Phred, and for 30 years between 1960 and 1990, they were the very creepy, but unfathomably popular mascots of KQED's annual auction.