Why We Love Our Nightmares

You were afraid of Freddy Krueger. Dennis Santaniello was terrified.In Why We Love Our Nightmares, Santaniello confronts his own childhood terror to figure out why a burned, wisecracking killer in a striped sweater became a permanent part of American pop culture. Forget the franchise retrospective — this is about why A Nightmare on Elm Street hit a nerve that's still raw forty years later.The fals...