{"product_id":"a-haunt-of-fears-the-strange-history-of-the-british-horror-comics-campaign-paperback","title":"A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Barker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 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 comic books climaxed in an Act of Parliament making it illegal to publish or sell any material in comic form deemed to be \"harmful to children.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut behind the facade of concern for the protection of children, another very different story lurked. This book explores the British campaign by asking some rather different questions. Who were the people at the heart of the anti-comics campaign? Why and how did the British Communist Party come to play a central role, and yet end up attacking a group of comics which were \"on their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Barker\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Professor at Aberystwyth University. He has researched and published widely on topics ranging from comic books, censorship campaigns, arguments over \"dangerous media,\" methods of film analysis, and audiences for films ranging from \u003ci\u003eJudge Dredd\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrash \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eBeing John Malkovich \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e. He is author of \u003ci\u003eA Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 252\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 7.93 x 5.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129906532487,"sku":"9780878055944","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/90fe37983e1f881cca7a48913ec4d326.webp?v=1732606860","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/a-haunt-of-fears-the-strange-history-of-the-british-horror-comics-campaign-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}