Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

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269 INDEX abolitionists, and monster rhetoric, 67–70 Abominable Snowman, 133 abortion, 78, 116–17, 148–49, 152, 174, 183–84; as horror theme, 170, 185–86; see also birth control Ackerman, Forrest J., 187 Adams, Rachel, 90 Adamski, George, 130 Addams, Charles, 137–38, 144 Addams, Morticia, 136 Addams Family, 137 adolescents, popularity of horror films, 17, 107, 136, 160, 186; Twilight popularity, 210–13 adventurism, and monster hunting, 132–35 Agassiz, Louis, 61, 93 AIDS, 206–7, 217, 220 Air Force, 111; UFO investigations, 125 Al Qaeda, 162 Albany, New York, 11 Alien franchise, 173–74, 186 aliens, 97, 123–25; abductions by, 125–26; in film, 111 Allyon, Lucas, 30 Alvarez, Everett, 157 American exceptionalism, 22–23 American expansion, 65, 74; see also frontier American Monster, 12 American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 84 American Psycho, 161 American Revolution, 9, 23; confiscation of Loyalist lands in, 50 American Werewolf in London, 33 American West, 35 anatomy, 82–83, 145 Angel, 211 Angelluci, Orfeo, 130 apocalypse, 209–10, 216–17; fear of in late twentieth century, 200–204, 225–26 Arbus, Diane, 138 Asma, Stephen, 6, 11 Aynesworth, Hugh, 151 baby boom, 116, 178 babysitter in danger theme, 158–59, 177–79 Bacon, Francis, 10 Bailey, Beth L., 126 Baker, Howard, 203 Bakker, Jim, 183 Balcerzak, John, 154 Ball, Alan, 215 Baltimore, 187 Banner, Bruce, 118 Bara, Theda, 89 Barker, Clive, 53, 107, 186 Barlow, 202 Index / 270 Barnum, P. T., 88 Barnum and Bailey Circus, 88, 94 Barry, Jonathan, 37 Barry, Marion, 183 Bateman, Patrick, 161, 163 Bates, Norman, 139, 142, 145, 161, 163, 165 Bauby, Dominique, 223 Bauhaus, 219 Beal, Timothy, 6 Beat movement, 123 beauty, 224 Beecher, Henry Ward, 78 Behemoth, 6 Bella, 212 Bellin, Joshua, 172 Benga, Ota, 94–95, 97–98 Bennell, Miles, 119 Bennett, William, 155 Benz, Julie, 163 Berkowitz, David, 141 Bethurum, Truman, 125–26 Bierce, Ambrose, 73 “Big Bone Lick,” 44–45 Big Foot, 12, 132–35 birth control, 128, 148–49, 170, 175 birth defects, 2 Bivins, Jason, 186 Bizarre, 136 Bizarro, 199 Black Frankenstein, 49 black magic, 41 Blair, Linda, 167–68, 186 “Bleeding Kansas,” 67 Bluff Creek, 134 Boone, Carol Anne, 161 Boone, Daniel, 20, 36, 45 Boston Daily Observer, 18 Boston Linnean Society, 61 Boxoffice, 114 Boy Scouts of America, 179 Boyer, Paul, 115 Boyle, Danny, 217 Boyle, Robert, 10 Bradford, William, 24 Brady, Matthew, 71–72 brain size, as indication of inferiority, 93, 95 Bramford building, 175 Brattle, Thomas, 40 Brienes, Weini, 138 Brooklyn, 97 Brooks, Max Brown v. Board of Education, 133 Brown, Goodman, 75 Browning, Tod, 91–92, 76, 102, 138 Bryant, Anita, 206 Buddhism, 130 “Buffalo Bill,” 154–55 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 89 Buffon, 43 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 193, 208–10 Bundchen, Gisele, 98–99 Bundy, Ted, 150–52 Bunyan, John, 39 Bunyan, Paul, 36 burial sites, desecrated for medical research, 106 Burke, Peter, 29 Burkner, H. Taylor, 130 Burstyn, Ellen, 167 Bush, George H. W., 190–91 Bush, George W., 217, 221–22 “Call of Cthluhu,” 60, 97 Cameron, James, 225 Camp Clifton, 180 Camp Crystal Lake, 165, 181 camp fire stories, 180–82 Camp Ranger, 180 Camp Robert Meecher, 180 Canaan, 39 cannibalism, 31–32, 88, 94, 100, 154, 156, 184–85, 194, 217; African fear of whites and, 47–48 Captain America, 117 captivity narratives, 31–32, 36 Caputo, Phillip, 197 Carlson, Allan, 172 carnival exhibits, 64, 80, 94; see also freak shows Carpenter, John, 158–60, 180 Carrie, 170 Carrington, Dr., 122–23 Carroll, Charles, 85 cartoons, 137–38 Cascio, Jamais, 222–23 Chang and Eng, 88 Civil Rights era, 132, 148, 156, 159, 184 Clark, Jerome, 123 Claverack, New York, 44 Clemens, Valdine, 56 Clover, Carol, 159 “Code,” 163 Index / 271 Cohen, Jeffrey J., 7 Colavito, Jason, 131 Cold War, 108, 111–16, 118–20, 190–91 Comics Code Authority, 146–47 comics, 177, 136, 144–46, 189; see also DC Comics; EC Comics; Marvel Comics commercial revolution, 56–57 communism, fear of, 108, 112–16, 119–21; religion as weapon against, 128–32 Compromise of 1850, 67 Compton, Bill, 214 Comstock, Anthony, 77–78 conspiracy theories, in Cold War America, 122–24; in late twentieth century, 182–85 containment, in culture and politics, 114 Coppola, Francis Ford, 190 Cotten, Sallie Southall, 34–36 Cousins, Norman, 115 Cowan, Douglas E., 17, 130 Crane, Ichabod, 56–57 Crane, Jonathan Lake, 18, 87 Crane...