Category Archives: W. Scott Poole

Scott Poole Forthcoming Book

I was pleased to learn today of W. Scott Poole’s forthcoming book, Dark Carnivals: Modern Horror and the Origins of American Empire. Scott has been featured on this blog in years past, and I am excited about him adding yet another volume to his body of work. The abstract is reproduced below. The panoramic story […]

Interview with W. Scott Poole on “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror”

Scott Poole is one of the more interesting writers on horror today, and he has been interviewed here previously on his book In the Mountains of Madness, Satan in America, and Monsters in America. We are privileged to have him back to discuss his new book Wasteland: The Great War and The Origins of Modern […]

Titles of Interest – “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror”

I’ve heard this historical argument made before in horror film documentaries, and in the work of David Skal. So it’s a treat to see Scott Poole, a friend of TheoFantastique (see here and here), pick up this theme with his latest book. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror W. Scott Poole […]

Interview with Scott Poole on “In the Mountains of Madness”

W. Scott Poole is a professor at the College of Charleston with a research interest in American pop and folk culture. He has written a number of books that combine his interests in American history with horror, including Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and Haunting, and […]

Emory University, Zombies, and the Significance of Nihilistic Horror

On Halloween I had the opportunity to be a part of a panel on religion and zombies at Emory University’s symposium on Zombies and Zombethics. This session was sold out, and filled with lots of interested listeners. My colleague and friend Scott Poole, author of Monsters in America, was one of my fellow panelists, and […]

Scott Poole and Monsters in America: TheoFantastique Podcast 2.6

On October 15 Scott Poole’s new book goes on sale just in time for the Halloween season. It is titled Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (Baylor University Press, 2011): Salem witches, frontier wilderness beasts, freak show oddities, alien invasions, Freddie Krueger. From our colonial past to the present, […]

TheoFantastique Podcast 2.1 on The Rite

TheoFantastique Podcast, Vol. 2, no. 1 is now available. It involves a discussion on The Rite with past guests and contributors, including Douglas Cowan, author of a number of books including Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen; Paul Meehan, also the author of a number of books including Horror Noir: Where Cinema’s […]

Satan is Busy at the Box Office

A consideration of recent items in popular culture reveals that Satan is a popular figure. Eli Roth’s The Last Exorcism is at the top of the box office at the time of the writing of this post, and seems to be well received by many horror film websites and blogs. In turn, the release of […]

W. Scott Poole: Legion and “Mauled by an Angel”

My friend and colleague W. Scott Poole, author of Satan in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and the focus of a previous interview here, has a commentary posted in Religion Dispatches titled “Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need ‘God’s Secret Agents’?”. In this article Scott looks at the action-horror film Legion as a […]

Scott Poole: Satan in America

I first heard of W. Scott Poole through the Religion Dispatches website that involves scholars interacting with pop culture and religion. Scott wrote an article on Jennifer’s Body that I commented on here, and which attracted a lot of interest at the now defunct HorrorBlips. Scott is associate professor of history at the College of […]

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