Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting (56 page)

Jim Crow,
79
,
108
,
112
,
148

John Brown’s Raid,
69

Johnson, William,
94–95

Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy,
88

Jones, Margaret,
38–39

Karloff, Boris,
82
,
86
,
193
,
195

Karras, Father Damien,
168

Kearney, Richard,
21

Keel, John,
126

Kennan, George,
114

Kennedy, John F.,
148

Kennedy, Robert,
148

Kentucky,
123–24
monster lore in,
44–45

Kepler,
8

kidnapping,
182

King Kong,
98
,
122

King Kong
(1933),
30
,
98–100

King, Stephen,
77
,
167–68
,
170
,
202–3

Kinsey, Alfred,
126

Kirby, Jack,
117–18

Kligman, Albert,
106

Knight, Peter,
124

Knoppers, Laura Lunger,
29

Kodak,
187

Korean war,
147

Kraft, Randy,
154

krakens,
64

Kristeva, Julia,
15–16

Kroker, Arthur and Marlouise,
206

Krueger, Freddie,
141
,
160
,
219

Ku Klux Klan,
90
,
98

Kurtzman, Harvey,
146

labor strikes,
74

Laderman, Gary,
71

Ladies Home Journal,
150

LaHaye, Tim,
152
,
183

Lanchester, Elsa,
13

Land of the Dead
,
200
,
216

Landes, Joan B.,
29

Landis, John,
33

Langenkamp, Heather,
219

Le Jau, Francis,
41

Leatherface,
156–57
,
165

Leatherstocking,
157

Leave it to Beaver
,
113

Lecter, Hannibal,
154–55

Lee, Christopher,
195

Lee, Stan,
117

Legend of Sleepy Hollow
,
56–57
economic critiques in,
57
Crane as monster,
57

Legion of Decency,
176

Leigh, Janet,
141–42
,
158

Lestat,
195–96

Leviathan,
6
as sea serpent,
63

Life
,
121
,
136
,
150
,
198

Lincoln, Abraham,
69

Lindsey, Hal,
201

Linnaeus, Carl,
10–11

literature, criticism of as immoral,
77–78

“Living Room War,”
198

Locke, John,
9

London Observer
,
173

“Lone Ranger,”
158

Los Angeles,
136
,
184
,
191

Loupe garou;
see
werewolves

Love, William T.,
117

Love Canal tragedy,
117

Lovecraft, H. P.,
29
,
60
,
67
,
96–97
,
226
aliens in writings of,
131
conceptions of racial difference,
97–98
fear of immigrants,
97–98

“Lovecraft in Brooklyn,”
111

Lucas, Henry Lee,
151
,
162

Lugosi, Bela,
15
,
102
,
105
,
108
,
121
,
151
,
187
,
189
,
195
,
219

lynching,
30
,
54
,
79
,
83–86
,
146

Malcolm X,
160

Mangum, O. R.,
35

Manhattan Project,
112

Manson, Charles,
158

Marcus, Greil,
228

Marietta
,
59

Marquette and Jolliet,
43

Marvel Comics,
117
,
147

Maryland School of Medicine,
106

mass murder,
73–74

Mather, Cotton,
11
,
24–25
,
29
descriptions of monsters,
42
,
44–45
role in witchcraft trials,
38–40

Mather, Increase,
25

Matheson, Richard,
202

Matrix
,
222–23

Mattel,
188

Mayer, Louis B.,
2–3

McDougal, Dennis,
154

McMartin Preschool,
184

McNeil family,
167–68

Mears, Ben,
202

medical experimentation,
105–7
,
115–16
,
121
,
145

Medicine
,
85

Medieval era; monsters in,
7–8
,
28
,
222

Melville, Herman,
60
,
63
,
65–67

Men and Marriage
,
172

MGM Studios,
2
,
91–92

Michaud, Stephen G.,
151

midgets,
88
,
138
see also
Freaks

military conflict, Europeans in Islamic world,
32

military, in Cold War films,
122

Millenarianism,
210

“Minister’s Black Veil,”
75

minstrel shows,
85

Moby-Dick
,
63
,
65–67
critique of American society and expansionism in,
65–67
quote from,
1

Moffit, Jack,
120

Monangahela
,
62

monotheism,
5–6
,
210

monster hunters,
133–35
,
210
as monsters,
202

“monster kids,”
186–90
,
202–3

Moody, Dwight L.,
73

Moral Majority,
183

moral panic, 1980s,
182–86
,
210

Moran, Jeffrey P.,
96

Morgan, Dexter,
163–64

Morgan, Harry,
163–64

“Morgus the Magnificent,”
187

motherhood,
178
,
213
as monstrous,
170–76
see also
family structure

Mullins, Aimee,
223–24

murder,
162
,
165

Murders in the Rue Morgue
,
105
,
190

Murdoch, Rupert,
162

music,
55
,
64

mutilation,
72

My Lai massacre,
198

Myers, Michael,
158
,
59
,
165

Mystic River,
24–25

NAACP,
133

Nagasaki,
115

Nat Turner Rebellion,
49
,
60
,
68

National Organization for Women,
148
,
161

National Police Gazette
,
73
,
78

National PTA,
102–3
,
143

national security state,
114–15
,
118
,
123
,
125

Native Americans,
21
as monsters,
30–31
colonial white belief in allegiances with Satan,
39
depiction as “savages,”
28–29
,
36
,
43
,
74
in folklore,
33–36
,
44–45
murder of in New England,
24–25
reference to in
Moby-Dick

nativism,
101–2

Natural Born Killers,
162

Natural History
,
29

natural history and monsters,
10–12
,
61–62

Neville, Robert,
202

New Bedford,
66

Night of the Living Dead
,
193–94
,
199–200
,
216

Night Stalker,
16

Nightmare on Elm Street
,
141
,
160

Nixon, Richard,
143
,
148
,
158
,
200

Noah,
44

“noodling,”
42–43
,
45

nostalgia, in nineteenth century,
56

Nostromo,
173

Notes on the State of Virginia
,
44
,
46

Nott, Josiah,
48
,
83

Nurmi, Maila,
136

Nuzum, Eric,
208

occult, fear of in 1980s,
182–85
see also
Satan

orientalism,
89

“Orphan, The,”
145

Ortiz, Tomas,
31

Osterman, Albert,
132

Ostow, Michael,
208

Other, monsters as and societal interpretations,
13
,
88–90
,
185
Native Americans as,
22
,
29
Ottoman Turks as,
29

Paine, Thomas,
9

Palencia-Roth, Michael,
28

Pare, Ambroise,
9

pill, the,
171
,
175–76
see also
birth control

Pinkerton, A. F.,
73

Pinkerton, Jim,
100

“Pip and Flip: Twins from the Yucatan,”
89

Poe, Edgar Allan,
60
,
67
,
81
critique of society in writings of,
75–76
incest in writings of,
77
influence in film,
77
,
105

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues,
221–22

Price, Vincent,
136

pro-choice,
184

profiling,
149–51

“Project Blue Book,”
125

pro-slavery apologists, and monster rhetoric,
67–70

prosthetics,
224

prostitution,
101–2

Psycho
,
139
,
141–43
,
147
,
156
,
158
,
162

Puritans,
4
,
11
,
24
,
157
,
183
belief in monsters,
36
,
196
see also
witchcraft trials; witches

radiation, fear of,
115
,
125
see also
Cold War

radioactivity, and superheroes,
117–18

Reagan, Ronald,
149
,
152
,
155
,
197

Reagan Counterrevolution,
149
,
155
,
160

Reagan era,
157–60
,
171–72
,
182
,
190
,
207
,
217

Red Scare,
108
,
111–16

Ressler, Robert,
150–51

Return of the Vampire
,
108

Rice, Anne,
195–96
,
207

Richmond Enquirer
,
49
,
68

Rip Van Winkle,
157

Ripley, Lieutenant,
174