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Book Review

Fear in front of the screen: children’s fears, nightmares, and thrills from TV

by Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish and Andrea Holler, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, 270pp., $120 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5381-2122-1; $40 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5381-2123-8; $38 (eBook), ISBN: 978-1-5381-2124-5

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