American scary : a history of horror, from Salem to Stephen King and beyond
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
813.08738/DAUBER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xi, 468 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781643753560, 1643753568, 9781643753560
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Columbia professor and cultural historian Jeremy Dauber takes readers to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, from the lingering influence of the European Gothic to the enslaved insurrection tales and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans"--