Abstract
Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and Culture of Gothic By Mark Edmundson Harvard University Press, 1997 One early autumn evening in 1934, wreck of steamship Morro Castle ran aground off shore of Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Morro Castle was still smoldering from a disastrous fire that had killed 137 persons when, charred remains of victims still on board, it broke loose from its tow-line and lodged in sand an easy swim's distance from public city beach. By next day, crowds of sightseers numbering as many as a quarter of a million, spurred on by print and radio reports of grounding and special excursion railroad fares from New York and Philadelphia, flocked to seaside town to view still-burning shipwreck. The atmosphere was festive around what one contemporary account called the charnel ship:
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