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Adam Rockoff

Adam Rockoff’s The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead... will be published by Scribner in May. 

The Horror, The Horror

Teacher Gets Hard Time for Dumb Mistake

Substitute teacher Sheila Kearns did a very stupid thing when she showed a horror movie to a Columbus, Ohio high school class. But she doesn’t deserve to go to jail.

Adam Rockoff

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