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Darryl Jones, Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror

Issue: Vol 5 No. 1-2 (2018)

Journal: Journal of Cognitive Historiography

Subject Areas: Ancient History Cognitive Studies Archaeology

DOI: 10.1558/jch.39462

Abstract:

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.

Author: Mathias Clasen

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