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A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign
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A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign Paperback - 1992

by Martin Barker

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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 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."

But 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

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On 3 January 1983, the Sunday Times ran an opinion column article by David Holbrook, supporter of a number of moral and censorious causes.

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  • Title A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign
  • Author Martin Barker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A
  • Publication date 1992-10-01
  • ISBN 9780878055944 / 0878055940
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.93 x 5.13 x 0.77 in (20.14 x 13.03 x 1.96 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92017769
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.31

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Martin Barker 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 Judge Dredd and Crash to Being John Malkovich and The Lord of the Rings. He is author of A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign and The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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