Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.
Dynamic, not doomed
Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons
Fiction for geeks and freaks
The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey
Married to amazement
How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman
Green terror
An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans
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