... can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. Many movies and books have been devoted to this "king of horror."30 Both of these authors, Rice and King, along with other writers, journalists, and novelists, serve to bring the supernatural to their fans and unite them under its banner. As observed by King, "one touch ... , almost every woman in town is accused of being a witch, and the cycle continues.43 Another important example of hysterical paranoia from the Puritan era is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This novel does not deal so mu...

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