Granta 117: Horror

Living in a digital landscape where never-ending newsfeeds are constantly taking us straight into the bloody heart of warzones, massacres and natural disasters, where we can be looking into the haunted face of someone slowly dying of a terrible disease one minute and then find ourselves unable to es...

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Published inThe Irish journal of gothic and horror studies no. 12; p. 134
Main Author O'Hare, Edward
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dublin Irish Journal of Gothic & Horror Studies 01.07.2013
Subjects
DeLillo, Don
Essays
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King, Stephen (1947- )
Parameswaran, Rajesh (1972- )
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Summary:Living in a digital landscape where never-ending newsfeeds are constantly taking us straight into the bloody heart of warzones, massacres and natural disasters, where we can be looking into the haunted face of someone slowly dying of a terrible disease one minute and then find ourselves unable to escape the expressionless eyes of a serial killer the next, the notion that we need more horror - fantasy horror -to supplement the glut of real horror overflowing everyday life, can often seem irredeemably perverse. [...]it is more than a mystery why the horror genre survives at all.
ISSN:2009-0374