Skip to content

That Shakespearean Rag

A Blog About Books and Reading

  • Home
  • About That Shakespearean Rag
  • Account
  • Log In

That Shakespearean Rag

A Blog About Books and Reading

  • Home
  • About That Shakespearean Rag
  • Account
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Reading
  • “You don’t really believe what you read”: Stephen King on the attraction of horror fiction
ReadingThe Horror ShowWriters and Writing

“You don’t really believe what you read”: Stephen King on the attraction of horror fiction

October 23, 2020June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

Horror fiction provides a buffer against the ongoing stresses and upheavals of the real world.

This content is for Monthly Reader members only.
Login Join Now
Stephen KingThe Horror Show

Share this post

Post navigation

Previous article

The history of horror: What are the best books in the genre?

Next article

Psychology of the uncanny: “The Scar” by Ramsey Campbell

Steven Beattie

Related posts

America’s Next Great Author makes lofty promises for what amounts to the ongoing gamification of literature

July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Claire Kohda and Rachel Yoder mix genre tropes with feminism in a pair of horror-adjacent debut novels

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022

Trauma and revenge on the grindhouse circuit: Kealan Patrick Burke and Joe R. Lansdale provide tales of bloody retribution

July 4, 2022July 4, 2022
Powered by the Elsie WordPress theme