Words that bring terror
and revulsion
The Nature of Horror
As my father overturned the seaweed-encrusted rock, a flurry of claws and chitin erupted as the crustaceous horrors lurking beneath scuttled maddeningly in all directions—their legs clacked and clambered against wet sand in a desperate struggle to hide from the sun. The event certainly changed the atmosphere of family beach day. I’d never been fond…
Horror and Location
The spooky asylum, the creepy mansion, the post-apocalyptic bingo hall; the horror genre is replete with all manner of settings whose only purpose, like a modern-day job centre, is to deaden the soul and shrivel the spirit. While setting plays an incarnate role in many genres, horror itself seems particularly reliant on location to achieve…
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