Monsters From The Id: The Rise Of Horror In Fiction And Film

Horror Stories, so popular in modern literature and film, originated in the sexual decadence unleashed by the French Revolution. In a compelling study of horror, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to modern Hollywood, E. Michael Jones, one of America's most original critics, shows that the moral order, when suppressed, reasserts itself in the form of an avenging monster. Expanded and newly reprinted in 2012.