Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television

Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography.

There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children's television and literature of the late twentieth century. In particular, the 1970s, '80s and '90s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of the contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this period dominated the world of childhood entertainment, drawing freely upon literature and popu...