Jess Nevins

Jess Nevins is the author of Horror Fiction in the 20th Century (Praeger, 2020) and The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger (Praeger, 2017), among other works. He is a college library director in Tomball, Texas.

Nine-10ths of a Triumph: On John Steinbeck’s “Murder at Full Moon”

Although not the werewolf novel it was initially reported as being, “Murder at Full Moon” is something even better: a metafictional novel with teeth....

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Before “Biff! Pow! Bam!”

What we need is a comprehensive examination of the history of popular literature with a view toward cataloging what we might call "proto-superheroes."...

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COMICS

To Understand the World Is To Be Destroyed By It: On H.P. Lovecraft

WHY LOVECRAFT? Why has Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the elitist, eccentric, racist New England writer of that specialized brand of fear literature known as “cosmic horror,” lasted and prospered where other, better writers have been forgotten. After all, Lovecraft was ...

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