Dark carnivals: modern horror and the origins of American empire

Prologue: Carnival and Empire

Part I: The Shark and the Chain Saw. Empire of Horror

American Massacres

I Wish They All Could Be California Girls

I Used to Hate the Water

Built on Top of a What??

Horrors, Foreign and Domestic

Weird Mystery Tales

Empire's Butcher Bill

The Thing on the Stairs

The Greenbaum Effect

Stranded in a Nightmare

Part II: Atomic Empire. Twilight Zone

Death of the Monsters?

My Man Frankenstein

Monster Mash

Dracula vs. the FBI

Terror Bombing

Void, Despair, Torment

Cold Warriors... in Space!!

Noon on Doomsday

What the Martian Said

Shelter from the Midnight Sun

Part III: Cold War, Red Planet. Unidentified

Crash Landings

Lone Gunmen

The Creatures with Atom Brains!!

We Gratefully Acknowledge the Cooperation of Those in Authority

The Midnight Monster Show

Future Imperfect

Who Goes There?

Crime, Sadism, Monsters, Ghouls, Corpses

Two-Fisted Tales

Part IV: Zombie Republics, Body Bags. Black Magic Island

Jungle Fever

Bombs and Movies

Welcome (Back) to the Jungle

Night(s) of the Living Dead

The Null Zone

Empire's Missing Links

The Creature in a Grave of Ice!!

Drugs, Cryptids, and Covert Ops

They Own the Night

The Ghost of a Previous Nightmare

Bats Leaving, Virgins Bleeding

Part V: Antichrist Country. Unlucky Numbers

Elm Street

Waiting for the Antichrist

Serpents and Rainbows

Ain't Got Time to Bleed

God Is Dead! Satan Lives!

Norman Rockwell Is Burning in Hell

Space, the Wild Frontier

They Live

Part VI: The Forever Wars. Do You Like Scary Movies?

Ignoring the Tales from the Hood

The Rules

Let's Nuke the Bastards

Very Pretty Space Fascists

Unadorned Butchery

Apocalypse, Right Now

Al-Qaedzilla

Ghosting in Spook Country

Zombie Black Ops

Digital Demons

Purging

Like Something Out of a Zombie Movie

Epilogue: Scattered Like Tombstones.