Is Horror Prescientific?

"Horror is one of the last genres or forms that allows us to engage with spiritual questions directly without merely subjecting them to the world we know," he says. "In some we can turn to horror as a longing and a reality, not as a mere reflection of something, but something that allow us to reflect" The genre itself is sort of a spoiler: If we open a horror novel, we know something horrific will happen to its characters; this can be even if it's just the font.