An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.
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This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities of the era, most notably the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning with Dracula and Frankenstein (1931), it relates the many ...
Ira Katznelson examines the New Deal through the lens of a pervasive, almost existential fear that gripped a world defined by the collapse of capitalism and the rise of competing dictatorships, as well as a fear created by the ruinous ...
Essays discuss the themes, style, and influences of King's novels, and look at his career as a writer
"Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it.
Grim, once a successful young executive named Geoffrey Robert Merrick--who interfered with his company's dealings with a South American drug lord--but now a gruesome creature, the victim of a car bomb, is determined to find his attackers
"In his new collection of poetry, Rice is an expert practitioner of the paranoiac-surreal . . . . His true subject is the uneasy equation between horror and beauty, the...
The most terrifying novel you will read this year.
What are you afraid of? In Fear Itself, Pulitzer-nominated science author Rush W. Dozier, Jr., takes on such challenging questions as: What is fear? Where does it originate? What purpose does it serve?