American Scary
A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
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From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror—and what it tells us about ourselves.
In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the listener to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, drawing a surprising through-line between the lingering influence of the European Gothic, the enslaved insurrection tales propagated by slaveholders, and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans, among many others.
These foundational narratives give rise to and are influenced by the body of work we more closely associate with horror: the weird fiction of HP Lovecraft, the lingering stories of Shirley Jackson, the unsettling films of Alfred Hitchcock, the up-all-night tales of Stephen King, and the gripping critiques of Jordan Peele.
From “The Tell-Tale Heart” to M3gan, we begin to see why the horror genre is the perfect prism through which to view America’s past and present. With the extraordinary historical breadth and dexterous weave of insight and style that has made him twice a finalist for the National Jewish Book, Dauber makes the haunting case that horror reveals the true depths of the American mind.
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Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen, but narrow in scope
- De Billy en 01-31-13
De: Jason Zinoman
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Witchcraft
- A History in Thirteen Trials
- De: Marion Gibson
- Narrado por: Rose Akroyd
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Offering a striking, dramatic journey unspooling over centuries and across continents, Witchcraft is a “well-rounded insight into some of the strangest and cruelest moments in history” (Buzz Magazine), giving voice to those who have been silenced by history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clever and Current
- De Jolie E Bremner en 04-29-24
De: Marion Gibson
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Behind the Horror
- True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies
- De: Dr. Lee Mellor
- Narrado por: Adam Sims
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay
- De 6catz en 05-19-21
De: Dr. Lee Mellor
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American Comics
- A History
- De: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Dauber
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 118
Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through the progress of comics in the 20th century and beyond. Follow the history from the golden age of newspaper comic strips - Krazy Kat, Yellow Kid, Dick Tracy - to the midcentury superhero boom - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman - and from the moral panic of the Eisenhower era to the underground comix movement; from the grim and gritty Dark Knights to the graphic novel’s rise.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shockingly Thorough
- De Alex Firer en 12-29-21
De: Jeremy Dauber
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Nightmare Fuel
- The Science of Horror Films
- De: Nina Nesseth
- Narrado por: Raquel Beattie
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Horror films promise an experience: fear. But how exactly do filmmakers pull this off? The truth is, there's more to it than just loud noises and creepy images. With the affection of a true horror fan and the critical analysis of a scientist, Nesseth explains how audiences engage horror with both their brains and bodies, and teases apart the elements that make horror films tick. Nightmare Fuel covers everything from jump scares to creature features, serial killers to the undead, and the fears that stick around to those that fade over time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Science + Horror = Intrigued
- De Bradley en 12-06-22
De: Nina Nesseth
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Paperbacks from Hell
- The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
- De: Grady Hendrix, Will Errickson - contributor
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 664
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades...if you dare. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Rosetta Stone of horror schlock
- De Stefan Filipovits en 08-26-20
De: Grady Hendrix, y otros
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Shock Value
- How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
- De: Jason Zinoman
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen, but narrow in scope
- De Billy en 01-31-13
De: Jason Zinoman
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It Came from the Closet
- Queer Reflections on Horror
- De: Joe Vallese - editor, various authors
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Aven Shore, Aida Reluzco, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is not a book about queer horror
- De Evan en 12-13-23
De: Joe Vallese - editor, y otros
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Opening Weekend
- An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops
- De: Jim Fredrick
- Narrado por: Jim Fredrick
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In a world where movie marketers are the stars of the story, Opening Weekend: An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops recounts Jim Fredrick's journey through the realm of movie marketing. Fredrick offers readers exclusive access to behind-the-scenes anecdotes and firsthand accounts of working with studio executives and navigating relationships with famous movie stars and directors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, detailed and SO engaging.
- De J Bomb en 12-01-24
De: Jim Fredrick
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws
- Gender in the Modern Horror Film
- De: Carol J. Clover
- Narrado por: Eva Wilhelm
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented.
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2 out of 5 stars
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There's so much more to horror than this...
- De Lacey Waldron en 03-16-25
De: Carol J. Clover
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I Lived the 80s
- A Gen X Life and the Pop Culture That Defined It
- De: B Harrison Smith
- Narrado por: B Harrison Smith
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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Gen X is the “forgotten generation.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable trip through time, especially if you loved through it.
- De Anonymous User en 02-27-25
De: B Harrison Smith
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Cabinet of Curiosities
- A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
- De: Aaron Mahnke, Harry Marks - contributor
- Narrado por: Aaron Mahnke
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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The podcast, Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities, has delighted millions of listeners for years with tales of the wonderful, astounding, and downright bizarre people, places, and things throughout history. Now, in Cabinet of Curiosities the book, learn the fascinating story of the invention of the croissant in a country that was not France, and relive the adventures of a dog that stowed away and went to war, only to help capture a German spy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Cool stories, annoying conversation
- De Margaret en 11-26-24
De: Aaron Mahnke, y otros
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Horror
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Darryl Jones
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Analyzing the way in which horror has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Darryl Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying capacity of human nature.
De: Darryl Jones
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Everything Must Go
- The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
- De: Dorian Lynskey
- Narrado por: Dorian Lynskey
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron and Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic social upheaval and temporary climate change, inciting a long tradition of visions of the end without gods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book that I needed
- De TJ Schreiber en 02-19-25
De: Dorian Lynskey
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Danse Macabre
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De sean en 10-18-24
De: Stephen King
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The End of the World as We Know It
- New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
- De: Christopher Golden - contributor, Brian Keene - contributor, Stephen King - introduction
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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For the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand.
De: Christopher Golden - contributor, y otros
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Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 481
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book about Challenger so far
- De Bruce Baumbush en 06-05-24
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Victorian Psycho
- De: Virginia Feito
- Narrado por: Anna Burnett
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 211
Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh
- De Pamela Y. S. en 02-13-25
De: Virginia Feito
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I Like to Watch
- Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
- De: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Emily Nussbaum
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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From her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes, this is worth a credit! 💯
- De Amazon Customer en 07-05-19
De: Emily Nussbaum
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- Property Guy
- 12-13-24
So many interesting ideas about the origins of horror.
The book is really an encyclopedia of the amazing beginnings of horror and how it all ties back to modern day from slave revolts in NYC to recent movies. The connections are there but only if you understand the history behind it. Amazing listen!
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- J. Moulton
- 01-06-25
A catalog of creepy and a discourse of darkness
A fantastic read of American history’s fears and failures. The author covers horror history from the start of puritan colonies in American all the way to post pandemic horror. Many great observations and theories discussed in a clear and playful way. Could be an excellent college course book.
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