As American As Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction

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Summary: Grants a deeper insight into the horror fiction of today
Review: As American As Mom, Baseball, And Apple Pie: The Construction Of Community In Contemporary American Horror Fiction by Linda J. Holland-Toll (American Literature and Genre Studies, Newberry College, South Carolina) is a fascinating critique and analysis of a popular American literary genre. Drawing from a survey of fifty contemporary novels, As American as Mom, Baseball and Apple Pie looks closely at the recurring community types and demonstrate distortions of commonly accepted mores as the abused privilege of an oligarchical few. Persuasively argued, tying a fascinating common theme to a widely enjoyed category of popular fiction, As American As Mom, Baseball, And Apple Pie is so acutely close to the mark that it grants a deeper insight into the horror fiction of today and tomorrow.