Wasteland : the Great War and the origins of modern horror / W. Scott Poole.
"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 cat...
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint,
2018.
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Corpses in the wasteland
- Symphony of horror
- Waxworks
- Nightmare bodies
- Fascism and horror
- Universal monsters
- Afterword: The age of horror.