Sunday, November 26, 2017

Charts for everything, including fearsome fiction

For Halloween, I did a segment on Rare Book Cafe treating the evolution of fear in western lit.

Trust the Google Books people to come up with a handy chart, at least for the last two centuries:


The bigger, granularier version is here.

The coolth factor comes from the fact the tool is searchable. You can pose any question and track you some literary themes!

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