Tony Burgess on the most terrifying reading experience of his life
“I thought there were things this book could do to me that were dangerous.”
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“I thought there were things this book could do to me that were dangerous.”
In a brief survey of some core Western texts, Oates asks the key question, why do we want to experience fear in an aesthetic context?
Of all the genre master’s classic novels and stories, none comes close to the sheer paranoid terror of this ruthless chiller.
Upending the radical vision of much 1960s and ’70s American horror cinema, the following decades saw a reactionary retrenchment, argues the academic and critic.
Hill’s Gothic tale is an exuberant mashup of Warren Zevon, Little Red Riding Hood, and “An American Werewolf in London.”
The author of psychological thrillers says his respect for the horror genre may explain why he has had difficulty writing in the genre.
The house in the story – a living thing that demands to be fed – is a metaphor for difference and the other.
Manga creator Junji Ito’s work is a terrifying combination of enclosed spaces, group mania, and obsessive desire, writes Cutter.
The Irish critic writes that horror, like all avant-garde art, operates at the extremes and tests its recipients’ tolerance levels.
The 1972 British film, about survivors of a cave-in relegated to life as cannibals in the tunnels under London, is a grim critique of how capitalism treats its workers.