"Fear: Aspects of an emotion" examines the effect of fear on the human experience and the ways in which its manifestation has shaped the creative and social imagination.Its contents include: Our culture of fear; The Irish rebellion of 1798 and tropes of violence; American ad culture and war propaganda; The politics of fear and ethics of representing 9/11; Lessons from the Blitz and other disasters; The fiction of the American neo-Nazi movement; Childhood fears and children's literature; Anxiety disorders in childhood and the therapeutic use of stories; 'The Nightmare': Fuseli to Frankenstein and beyond; Debunking the legend of Leap; and Why horror films aren't scary anymore.