Status Updates From Why I Love Horror

“The thing you must know is the simple physics of genocide: it’s impossible to eliminate a lot of people at one time without the participation of the citizenry. < . . . > Consider this your wake-up call. We’re afraid of the wrong things. We are the monsters.”

Quote by Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger, The Deep, and The Fervor. Historical horror fiction author.

“I love that horror can be a refuge. If you’ve been made at one point to feel like an outsider —a monster—then some of the creatures everyone else is so afraid of begin to feel like kin.”

Quote by Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth

“Horror, as a marketing category, always does better in times of national or global turmoil.”

Quote from Brian Keene in the 1st essay in the book.

I hoped to like this a lot more than I did. Fine, but just not for me I guess?

One essay left. I trust Stephen Graham Jones to bring this thing home with bloody brilliance.