Darryl Jones, Sleeping with the Lights On
The Unsettling Story of Horror
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.39462Keywords:
Cognitive Science, Horror Studies, Literature, Darwinian literary studiesAbstract
Darryl Jones, Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), xii + 181 pp. £10.99/$16.95. ISBN 978-0-19882-648-4.References
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