American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror-and what it tells us about ourselves.

In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the reader to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, drawing a surprising through-line between the lingering influence of the European Gothic, the enslaved insurrection tales propagated by slaveholde...