The Horror Boom Is Not a Trend. It's the Weather.
Every few months someone writes that horror is 'having a moment.' It has been having a moment since the first campfire. What's changed is who's allowed to admit they read it.
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Every few months someone writes that horror is 'having a moment.' It has been having a moment since the first campfire. What's changed is who's allowed to admit they read it.
There is a way of talking about murder that podcasts invented: chatty, intimate, slightly thrilled. It has started turning up in books, and the books are worse for it.
The columns say people are going out again. The bars are full, the dinner parties are back, the trend is 'being seen.' We read these pieces with interest, in the chair, and turn the page.
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