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

by Martin Barker

Book Overview

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"