Status Updates From Why I Love Horror

Instead of an essay, Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box, told a story of a conversation with a stranger on a train:

“Horror, Tim, is an optimistic thing. Because it suggests there is more to this life than we know and what we accept as possible. And what is more optimistic than more?”

“i felt more than a little monstrous myself back then, carrying all my secret inner thoughts and worries, unsure of where or how I fit into the world, and I often daydreamed of actually becoming a monster. I wished for it. I wanted to shed my human skin and all my messy human emotions and go full-on monster.”

Quote by Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People

“While I was working as an executive producer on the Shudder documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, I realized that my mother was not alone. In many black families —and no doubt in many families period—horror served as a balm to soothe the trauma of being outsiders in our own nation.”

Quote by Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory.

“Always remember what the great Werner Herzog said: “The Universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.” We are but a speck of dust floating in an expanding, infinite universe. If that’s not horror, I don’t know what is.”

#quote by Gabino Iglesias, masterful horror author of House of Bone and Rain, and other works.

“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?