Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us
Synopsis
There is something twisted in enjoying horror, and yet many of us are fascinated with horror stories in their many forms. With horror creatures and topics crawling into the music, TV series and movies we love, there is a question that we find ourselves asking: what is wrong with me? Anna Bogutskaya’s essay explores how horror stories channel our fears, anxieties, pain and fuels them.
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Synopsis
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.
Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what's wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it. In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571385768
- Number of pages: 256
- Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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