College of Charleston’s own Scott Poole released his fifth book entitled Monsters in America.
A history professor at the College and self-proclaimed lifelong horror nerd, Poole’s book topics range from American religion to popular culture, with his most recent one focusing on the monsters role in American history.
When asked why he chose to write Monsters in America, Poole said: “Lots of scholars have written about the significance of horror but its mostly been religious study folks or film and media people. They’ve written some great books but nothing that has looked at the monster hardwired into the American Historical process.”
Poole is currently working on another book about the 1950s horror host, Vampira, and Cold War notions of gender, and he has plans for bigger monster works.