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W. Scott Poole
Consulting newspaper accounts, archival materials, personal papers, comic books, films, and oral histories, Poole adroitly illustrates how the creation of the monstrous othernot only reflects society’s fears but shapes actual…
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The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider…
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed…
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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…
In the Mountains of Madness interweaves the biography of the legendary writer with an exploration of Lovecraft as a phenomenon. It aims to explain this reclusive figure while also challenging…
The Washington Post, One of the Best Books to Take You Off the Beaten Track
A historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee explores the birth of modern horror films and…
W.Scott Poole
With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has…
Jack Bass,W. Scott Poole
This volume speaks directly to the connections between the state’s past, present, and future, and it serves as a valuable point of entrance for new inquiries into South Carolina’s diverse…
W. Scott Poole (Asst. Professor of History, College of Charlestown, USA)
Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. This text chronicles the…
Traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites, from the fourth century to the twentieth, and, from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Brazil, and…
W. Scott Poole, author of Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
Satan in America tells the story of America’s complicated relationship with the devil. New light evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic politicians, and modern American film-makers have…
Arlin C. Migliazzo
On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland…
Presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. This book presents a volume of essays that comprises a comparative study…
