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	Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soul of Wes Craven by Joseph Maddrey (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Craven (foreword) 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Corners of the Old Dominion: A Virginia Horrors Anthology by Joseph Maddrey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Rook (Editor), Brian Keene (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simply Eliot (Great Lives Book 15) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adapting Stephen King: Vol. 1, Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, and The Shining from Novel to Screenplay really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Fear: Reflections on Stephen King, Wes Craven, and George Romero's Living Dead 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adapting Stephen King: Volume 2, Night Shift from Short Stories to Screenplays 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of T.S. Eliot: A Study of the Literary Influences really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brainstorm 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quick, the Dead and the Revived: The Many Lives of the Western Film 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Book Review: Partially Devoured (by Daniel Kraus)

The title of my blog, “Movies Made Me,” reflects the ideathat certain films—or, more to the point, my remembered experiences ofseeing certain films—have influenced my sense of self in a deeplymeaningful way. Or, as Daniel Kraus puts it: there are certain films “thatfloat in the air you breathe, that fold into your DNA.” For him—as for me—one ofthose films is Night of the Living Dead.

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Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them

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