![]() ![]() One of the reasons why I’ve continued to write in the field after 50 years is that I’ve not yet found the edges or the limits. The range of the field is so large that if our hypothetical readers have read a couple there’s almost certainly some other kind that they’ve not yet encountered and might appreciate. ![]() It’s a classic case of very powerful indirection.Įqually, a lot of horror fiction has been published as ghost stories, and people may feel that horror is the evil twin-or, perhaps more correctly, the disreputable relative-of the ghost story. Or my favourite horror novel of the last decade or so-and I always take delight in saying this is horror, to see how people react-is Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, which is a wonderful example of the kind of horror fiction that is disturbing precisely because the narrator ignores the horrific aspect of her own situation and that of her peers. For instance, they may have read Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, which was a splendid occult horror novel in my view. ![]() What would you say to those readers who dismiss horror, who would take one look at the cover and not bother even picking it up?įirst of all, they may have read some and nor realised. ![]() Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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