ST203 American Gothic
Vampires and werewolves in America: #38 to #40
Rosewood under the lake and the company-town werewolf: how Moore re-roots the classic monsters in American soil.
Reading for this lesson
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Required The Saga of the Swamp Thing #40: "The Curse" Alan Moore (writer), Stephen Bissette and John Totleben (art) the whole issue
The werewolf issue.
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Recommended Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters Jack Halberstam (published as Judith Halberstam) the introduction
The monster as a technology for producing social fear.