In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (Smart Pop series)

€œSupernatural€ is more than a show about fighting demons. It€s about more than a cool car, a kick-ass soundtrack and hot guys with guns. €œSupernatural€ is about family and sacrifice and heroism€"about good and evil and the choices you make to stay in the hunt. You know there€s more to this show than meets the eye. So do we.

* Professor Gregory Stevenson considers the true meaning of horror and what €œSupernatural's€ characters have to say about the human (and demonic) potential in all of us Super-Wiki team member
* Jules Wilkinson gives Dean€s €67 Chevy Impala her due
* Television Without Pity€s Jacob Clifton looks at the feminine in €œSupernatural's€ world of shotguns, muscle cars and masculine bravado (it€s more influential, and more pervasive, than you think)
* €œSupernatural€ RPG writer Jamie Chambers outlines demon-hunting on the cheap€"and what it has to do with €œSupernatural's€ appeal
* Contemporary fantasy author Tanya Huff delves into the psychology of John Winchester
* Fan Sheryl A. Rakowski (one of the three winners of the Supernatural.tv/Smart Pop €œSupernatural€ Essay Contest) shows how the boys€ biggest weakness€"their need for each other€"is also the biggest strength they possess, no matter what the Trickster says
* Writer Shanna Swendson mines the sources of €œSupernatural's€ monsters, from folktales to urban legends, and deems Dean and Sam our modern-day keepers of the lore

And much more!