Author Leo Braudy charts the family tree of Halloween monsters that we love to scare us

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English - October 30, 2018 16:36 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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Patt Morrison talks with Leo Braudy about his most recent book Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds. Leo Braudy is a professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches 17th- and 18th century English literature, film history and criticism.