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American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

Dauber, Jeremy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 1643753568
ISBN13: 9781643753560
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book.
--Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group

From the acclaimed author of American Comics comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, and, ultimately, culture--from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the grisly, lingering films of Jordan Peele

America is held captive by horror stories. They flicker on the screen of a darkened movie theater and are shared around the campfire. They blare out in tabloid true-crime headlines, and in the worried voices of local news anchors. They are consumed, virally, on the phones in our pockets. Like the victims in any slasher movie worth its salt, we can't escape the thrall of scary stories.

In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the reader to the startling origins of horror in the United States. Dauber draws a captivating through line that ties historical influences ranging from the Salem witch trials and enslaved-person narratives directly to the body of work we more closely associate with horror today: the weird tales of H. P. Lovecraft, the lingering fiction of Shirley Jackson, the disquieting films of Alfred Hitchcock, the up-all-night stories of Stephen King, and the gripping critiques of Jordan Peele.

With the dexterous weave of insight and style that have made him one of America's leading historians of popular culture, Dauber makes the haunting case that horror reveals the true depths of the American mind.

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