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The Palmetto State
The captivating, colorful, and controversial history of South Carolina continues to warrant fresh explorations. In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state's history, …
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, …
Dark Carnivals
Satan in America
Satan in America tells the story of Americas complicated relationship with the devil. New light evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic …
In the Mountains of Madness
In the Mountains of Madness interweaves the biography of the legendary writer with an exploration of Lovecraft as a phenomenon. It aims to explain this reclusive figure while also …
The Dawn of Religious Freedom in South Carolina
Although South Carolina's colonial charter promised a safe harbor of religious freedom for those who were oppressed, eighteenth-century religious minorities in the colony found …
Monsters in America
Monsters arrived in 2011âand now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our …
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.In the early twentieth …
Dark Carnivals
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power The American empire emerged from the shadows …