Dark carnivals : modern horror and the origins of American empire

9781640094369

First Counterpoint edition

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references

Prologue: Carnival and Empire
Part I: The Shark and the Chain Saw. Empire of Horror
American Massacres
I Wish They All Could Be California Girls
I Used to Hate the Water
Built on Top of a What??
Horrors, Foreign and Domestic
Weird Mystery Tales
Empire's Butcher Bill
The Thing on the Stairs
The Greenbaum Effect
Stranded in a Nightmare
Part II: Atomic Empire. Twilight Zone
Death of the Monsters?
My Man Frankenstein
Monster Mash
Dracula vs. the FBI
Terror Bombing
Void, Despair, Torment
Cold Warriors... in Space!!
Noon on Doomsday
What the Martian Said
Shelter from the Midnight Sun
Part III: Cold War, Red Planet. Unidentified
Crash Landings
Lone Gunmen
The Creatures with Atom Brains!!
We Gratefully Acknowledge the Cooperation of Those in Authority
The Midnight Monster Show
Future Imperfect
Who Goes There?
Crime, Sadism, Monsters, Ghouls, Corpses
Two-Fisted Tales
Part IV: Zombie Republics, Body Bags. Black Magic Island
Jungle Fever
Bombs and Movies
Welcome (Back) to the Jungle
Night(s) of the Living Dead
The Null Zone
Empire's Missing Links
The Creature in a Grave of Ice!!
Drugs, Cryptids, and Covert Ops
They Own the Night
The Ghost of a Previous Nightmare
Bats Leaving, Virgins Bleeding
Part V: Antichrist Country. Unlucky Numbers
Elm Street
Waiting for the Antichrist
Serpents and Rainbows
Ain't Got Time to Bleed
God Is Dead! Satan Lives!
Norman Rockwell Is Burning in Hell
Space, the Wild Frontier
They Live
Part VI: The Forever Wars. Do You Like Scary Movies?
Ignoring the Tales from the Hood
The Rules
Let's Nuke the Bastards
Very Pretty Space Fascists
Unadorned Butchery
Apocalypse, Right Now
Al-Qaedzilla
Ghosting in Spook Country
Zombie Black Ops
Digital Demons
Purging
Like Something Out of a Zombie Movie
Epilogue: Scattered Like Tombstones

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