W. Scott Poole
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages, : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The roots of modern horror are found in the First World War. It was the most devastating event to occur in the early 1900s, with 38 million dead and 17 million wounded in the most grotesque of ways, owing to the new machines brought to war. If Downton Abbey showed the ripple effect of this catastrophe above stairs, Wasteland reveals how it made its way into the darker corners of our psyche on the bloody battlefield, the screaming asylum, and desolated...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"--