[PDF.62oo] A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)

A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)

[PDF.dn86] A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)

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 | #3207588 in Books |  University Press of Mississippi |  1992-10-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.63 x5.00l,.66 | File type: PDF | 252 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The more things change, the more they stay the same|By A Customer|Before video games, movies and TV, comic books were the bee in the proto-Tippers' collective bonnets. This book is an admirable attempt to summarise the campaign against the comics in Britan, which actually led to them being banned.
The comics themselves (of which three are reproduced in full and many other|From the Inside Flap|An exploration of the British campaign against horror comics between 1949 and 1955 that led to the passage of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1955

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 alarm: "Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children," "Drive Out the Horror Comics." As one frenzied columnist protested: "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 co...

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