Books written by W. Scott Poole
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Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry
Merriman Washington , of Richland County , led a Red Shirt club of sixteen black South Carolinians to the polls , half of whom , he later testified , were chased off by " a heap of the republicans . " Aaron Mitchell , a black resident ...
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Satan in America: The Devil We Know
The scientific revolution that informed Enlightenment values had its own share of fascination with the occult. Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, ...
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South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History
Sherman had already come to Charleston once. In June 1842, in the midst of an army career that carried him across the Old South, Sherman was stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor. Ironically, considering the hatred he would ...
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The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina
Meanwhile General William T. Sherman's famous march through Georgia had opened the way for what would be the most destructive leg of his campaign , the march into South Carolina . Leaving Savannah untouched in January 1865 , Sherman's ...
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
Masahiro Mori, a robotics expert at Tokyo's Mukta Research Institute, first used the term “uncanny valley” in 1970. Mori's original idea suggested that once we began to build more and more lifelike computers, we will at first look at ...
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Satan in America: The Devil We Know
The presidential election of 1800, a watershed election that pitted Federalist John Adams against Republican-Democrat Thomas Jefferson, assured that political parties and rough-and-tumble elections would play a permanent role in ...
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Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror
Thirty-odd years later, the devotion I felt toward my childhood horror host found its way into my fifth novel, Witches on the Road Tonight. In it, dying Eddie Alley, a.k.a. “Captain Casket,” must reconcile his Appalachian witch mother ...
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Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Monsters are here to stay.--Christopher James Blythe "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"
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The Palmetto State: The Making of South Carolina
In this sweeping story of defining episodes in the state's history, accomplished historians Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole trace the importance of race relations, historical memory, and cultural life in the progress of the Palmetto State from ...
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In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft
More than a traditional biography, this provocative book reclaims the true essence of Lovecraft in relation to the comics of Joe Lansdale, the novels of Stephen King, and some of the biggest blockbuster films in contemporary America, ...
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Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction
New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction Edward J. Blum, W. Scott Poole ... 1993 ) ; John B. Boles , The Irony of Southern Religion ( New York : Peter Lang , 1994 ) ; Stephanie McCurry , Masters of Small Worlds : Yeoman Households ...
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Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire
The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power The American empire emerged from the shadows of World War II. As the nation’s influence swept the globe ...
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Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Surveys America's long-standing obsession with monsters, looking at both historical and cultural perspectives. The history of America -- one fear, one monster, at a time
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Never Surrender: Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry
Never Surrender brings new clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and the South's collective memory of the Civil War.
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Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
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In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft
More than a traditional biography, this provocative book reclaims the true essence of Lovecraft in relation to the comics of Joe Lansdale, the novels of Stephen King, and some of the biggest blockbuster films in contemporary America, ...