In a message dated 2/8/00 10:39:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
btoomey@javanet.com writes:
<< Actually, I was talking about literary horror, not
movie horror. In the
classical sense, the literary horror story seeks to
create fear in the
audience. Fear is not a cynical emotion. >>
I had mentioned Ramsey Campbell in a
previous post, and Joe Landsdale had been mentioned before
that. If Campbell's romantic, then Raymond Chandler might as
well be one of the Bronte sisters.
If you're saying that horror is
romantic because it engages the imagination, then maybe some
of it is, (to that extent only). But there is plenty of
horror that deals pretty exclusively with the horrors of the
real world. To that extent, horror becomes an extension of
the evening news.
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