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

335 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history horror challenging informative medium-paced

Description

Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our past--a hideous obsession America cannot seem to escape. Poole's cen...

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