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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	GR825 .P626 2011		AVAILABLE

Author	Poole, W. Scott, 1971-
Title	Monsters in America : our historical obsession with the hideous and the haunting / W. Scott Poole.
OCLC	694616493
ISBN	9781602583146 (hardcover. : alk. paper)
	1602583145 (hardcover. : alk. paper)
Publisher	Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2011]
	�2011
Description	xviii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Monsters.
	Ghosts.
	Ghouls and ogres.
	Animals, Mythical.
	Supernatural.
	Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents	Preface : with a warning to the unsuspecting reader -- Introduction : the bloody chords of memory -- Monstrous beginnings -- Goth Americana -- Weird science -- Alien invasions -- Deviant bodies -- Haunted houses -- Undead Americans -- Epilogue : worse things waiting -- Filmography -- Note on sources.
Summary	Explains monsters as concoctions of the public imagination, reactions to cultural influences, social change, and historical events; and making use of newspaper accounts, films, and oral histories presents a history of America that illustrates how the monstrous reflects society's fears and shapes historical behavior.

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