Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole

Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

W. Scott Poole

290 pages first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history horror challenging informative medium-paced

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Salem witches, frontier wilderness beasts, freak show oddities, alien invasions, Freddie Krueger. From our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of American culture. A masterful survey of our grim and...

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