A haunt of fears

Martin Barker

A haunt of fears

The strange history of the 

British Horror Comics campaign

Pluto Press

London, England, U.K.

230 pages, 1984

ISBN : 0-86104-751-6

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Officially, the Comics Campaign

3. The true story

4. The Campaign narrows

5. Enter the professionals, staged right

6. Frederic Wertham's nightmare

7. The rest of the critics

8. What's in a Comic ?

9. Lucy's tale

10. The genre of Horror

11. Criminal varieties

12. The psychoanalysis of Lucy

13. The contradictions of the Comics Campaign

Appendix : The forgotten cause for concern

Notes

Bibliography

Index