TY - BOOK AU - Poole,W.Scott TI - Monsters in America: our historical obsessions with the hideous and the haunting SN - 9781602583146 (hardcover. : alk. paper) AV - GR825 .P626 2011 U1 - 398.24/54 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Waco, Tex. PB - Baylor University Press KW - Monsters KW - Ghosts KW - Ghouls and ogres KW - Animals, Mythical KW - Supernatural KW - Popular culture KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index; Preface : with a warning to the unsuspecting reader -- Introduction : the bloody chords of memory -- Monstrous beginnings -- Goth Americana -- Weird science -- Alien invasions -- Deviant bodies -- Haunted houses -- Undead Americans -- Epilogue : worse things waiting -- Filmography -- Note on sources ER -