Paperback • 1984 • English

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

Name: A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign
SKU: 9780878055944
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ISBN: 9780878055944

By Martin Barker

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About the book

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 “Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children,” “Drive Out the Horror Comics.” As one frenzied columnist “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 against ghoulish comic books climaxed in an Act of Parliament mak...Show more

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ISBN

9780878055944

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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