A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign

by Martin Barker

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Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about "American-style" or "horror" comics. The British press cried out in alarm: "Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children," "Drive Out the Horror Comics." As one frenzied columnist protested: "I feel as though I have been trudging through a sewer. Here is a terrible twilight zone between sanity and madness . . . peopled by monsters, grave robbers, human flesh eaters." A campaign...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0878055940

ISBN13:9780878055944

Release Date:October 1992

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

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Censorship Comics & Graphic Novels Genre Fiction Graphic Novels History & Price Guides Horror Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Political Science

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