Description Historian and Bram Stoker Award Nominee W.
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He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee for his critically acclaimed biography of H.
His past books include the award-winning Monsters in America and the biography Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror.
Scott Poole is a professor of history at the College of Charleston who teaches and writes about Horror and popular culture.
Poole persuasively argues that the birth of Horror as a genre is rooted in the unprecedented destruction and carnage of WWI." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) About the Author W. . . "Thoroughly engrossing cultural study .
Scott Poole takes us behind the front lines of battle to a no man\'s-land where the legacy of the War to End All Wars lives on.
On the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought World War I to a close, W.
Wasteland reveals how bloody battlefields, the fear of the corpse, and a growing darkness made their way into the deepest corners of our psyche.
Scott Poole chronicles these major figures and the many movements they influenced.
Historian W.
Murnau, and Albin Grau to Tod Browning and James Whale, the touchstones of Horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War.
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From Nosferatu to Frankenstein\'s Monster and the Wolf Man, from Fritz Lang, F.
But it also birthed a new art form: the Horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war.
The Great War remade the world\'s map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today.
New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways.
In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced.
Scott Poole traces the confluence of military history, technology, and art that gave us Modern Horror films and literature.
Description Historian and Bram Stoker Award Nominee W
