Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (55 page)

Clover, Carol,
159

“Code,”
163

Cohen, Jeffrey J.,
7

Colavito, Jason,
131

Cold War,
108
,
111–16
,
118–20
,
190–91

Comics Code Authority,
146–47

comics,
177
,
136
,
144–46
,
189
see also
DC Comics; EC Comics; Marvel Comics

commercial revolution,
56–57

communism, fear of,
108
, 112–
16
,
119–21
religion as weapon against,
128–32

Compromise of 1850,
67

Compton, Bill,
214

Comstock, Anthony,
77–78

conspiracy theories, in Cold War America,
122–24
in late twentieth century,
182–85

containment, in culture and politics,
114

Coppola, Francis Ford,
190

Cotten, Sallie Southall,
34–36

Cousins, Norman,
115

Cowan, Douglas E.,
17
,
130

Crane, Ichabod,
56–57

Crane, Jonathan Lake,
18
,
87

Crane, Marion,
141–42
,
145

Crane, Stephen,
70

craniometry,
93

Craven, Wes,
27
,
158
,
159–60
,
219
,
228

Crew, Jerry,
132

Cronenberg, David,
172–73

Cropsey,
182

Crypt of Terror
,
146

cryptids,
132–35

“Cthulhu mythos,”
97
,
226

Cuban missile crisis,
190

Cullen, Edward,
212–13

Cumberland Gap,
45

Curtis, Jamie Lee,
158–59

Cynocephalus,
8

“Dagon,”
60

Dahmer, Jeffrey,
151
,
153–54

Dakota building,
175

Daniken, Erich von,
130–31

Dante, Joe,
187
,
216

Dare, Virginia,
34–37

Daughters of Darkness, The Hunger
,
206

DC Comics,
144

De Palma, Brian,
170

Dean, James,
127
,
143

death penalty,
155
,
161

“Deer Woman,”
33–36

Delbanco, Andrew,
65

Demme, Jonathan,
153–54

Denhem, Carl,
100

Depue, Roger,
150

“Devil Worshippers,”
185

Devil, Africans and,
30
,
49
in American place names,
7
fear of in 1980s,
182–85
in film,
167–69
,
175–76
Pope as,
29
witches as accomplices to,
37–41
women as,
77–78
see also
Satan

Dexter
,
163–65

Diary of the Dead
,
216

Diderot,
29

“Doctrine of Monsters,”
44

Douglass, Frederick,
51

Dracula,
5
,
7
,
202
,
225

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
,
105
,
118

Dulles, John Foster,
121

EC Comics,
136
,
144–47

Ellis, Bill,
179

Ellis, Bret Easton,
161

Ellison, Ralph,
81

Elm Street,
165

Elvira,
136

Embargo of 1807,
20

Enlightenment era,
9–10
,
29–30
,
55
,
82
belief in supernatural during,
10
,
220

Eno River, “Deer Woman” sightings,
35

entertainment, witch trials as in New England,
39–40

entrepreneurship,
160–61

Environmental Protection Agency,
117

environmentalism,
201

Equiono, Oloudah,
47

ethnology,
48

Exorcist
,
167–69
,
186

Facebook,
213

“Fall of the House of Usher,”
76–77

Falwell, Jerry,
152
,
183
,
185
,
207

Famous Monsters of Filmland,
187
,
190

Fangoria
,
14
,
190

Father Knows Best
,
113

Faust,
175

feminism,
77
,
89–90
,
101
,
148
,
152
,
161
,
170–72
,
180–81
,
184
,
189
,
197
,
208–9

Ferguson, Homer,
128–29

Filson, John,
45
,
56

“final girl” theme,
159
,
174
,
181
,
219

Fincher, David,
174

Finkbine, Sherri,
116–17

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
1–2
,
12
,
24
,
89
,
91

Fort, Charles,
133–34

“Forteanism,”
133

fossils,
23–24
,
44
debate over origin of,
11–12
of sea serpents,
61
,
63

Foster, Jodi,
154

Fox, Michael J.,
160

France, witchcraft trials,
8

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated,
72

Frankenstein
(film, 1910),
84

Frankenstein
(film, 1931),
81–82
,
86–87
,
175
,
187
,
189
,
195
,
227
racial imagery in,
92–93
,
100–101
science and sexuality in,
105
,
195

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
,
107

Frankenstein
(book and character),
49
,
59–60
,
122
,
175
,
220
commentary on Industrial Revolution,
59
slavery parallels,
60

freak shows,
15
,
80
,
84
,
88–91
,
94
decline of,
113–14

Freaks
,
2–3
,
13
,
15
,
89
,
91–92
delayed success as cult classic,
138

Freud, Sigmund,
14–16
,
149

Friday the 13th
,
160
,
181
,
184

Friday the 13th, Part 3
,
17

Friedan, Betty,
138
,
144

Gacy, John Wayne,
16
,
150–51
,
162

Gaines, Bill,
146–147

gay rights,
148
,
206–7

Gein, Ed,
147–48
,
151–54
,
156

Gekko, Gordon,
160

ghettos,
159
,
172

“Ghoulardi,”
187

giants,
90

Giger, H. R.,
173

Gilder, George,
172

“Gingerbread,”
210

Gitlin, Todd,
143

Gloucester Harbor, sea serpent sightings,
19
,
42
,
61
,
63

goth, as twentieth-century genre,
55
,
136–38
,
185
,
189–90
,
220–21

gothic literature,
55–56
,
75–77
monster descriptions,
45

Gothic Revival architecture,
55
,
142

Graham, Billy,
113
,
129

Halloween
,
158–59
,
178
,
180–81
,
220

Hamedani, Kevin,
217

Hamilton, Sara,
120

Hammond, James Henry,
48

Hardesty family,
156

Harker, Mina,
103

Harpers Ferry,
69

Harris, John,
221

Hawks, Howard,
111–12

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
75

“Headless Haddy,”
180

Headless Horseman,
68–69
see also
Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Hearst, William Randolph,
74

Heart, A. Denison,
35

Hefner, Hugh,
127

Hell Houses,
185–86

Henrikson, Margot,
115
,
120–21

Heuvelmans, Bernard,
133–34

Hill, Luke and Elizabeth,
41

Hilton sisters,
2–3
,
89

Hiroshima,
115
,
123

Hiroshima Maidens,
115

history,
conceptualization of American,
22–24
,
228

Hitchcock, Alfred,
139
,
141–43
,
156

Hollywood Reporter
,
120

Holmes, H. H.,
74

Holmesburg prison,
106
,
220

Holt, Sam,
86

“Homecoming,”
216–17

homicide, rise in post-war statistics,
149–50

Honda, Ishiro,
115

“Hook Man,”
179
,
182
,
190

Hooker Chemical Co.,
117

Hooper, Dennis,
158

Hooper, Tobe,
76
,
156–57
,
160

Hoover, J. Edgar,
120

Hopkins, Anthony,
27

“Hopkinsville Goblins,”
123

Hornaday, William,
95–96

“Horror at Red Hook,”
97–98

housing,
148

How to Survive an Atom Bomb
,
115

Hyde, Michael J.,
222

IKEA,
163

immigrant hate groups,
37

immigrants, fear of,
54
,
90
,
97–98
,
101–2

immortality,
196

In the Wake of Sea Serpents
,
134

incest,
17
,
77

“Incognitum,”
44

Incredible Hulk,
118

Industrial Revolution, in horror genre,
59

Ingebretsen, Edward,
39

Inherit the Wind
,
95

“Intelligent Design” movement,
134

“Jack the Ripper,”
73
,
149

Jackson, Andrew,
21

Jackson, Peter,
100

James, LeBron,
98–99

Jameson, Frederic,
124

Jamestown, New York,
37
,
184

Japan, bombing of,
108
,
115

Jeanie “the half woman,”
90

Jefferson, Thomas,
9–10
,
12
,
20
,
44–46

Jenkins, Henry,
190

Jesuits,
168

Jews, as Other,
90
,
97
theological concepts,
222