The Origins of Horror

It's one of the most fascinating things to me in writing my book, The Anatomy of Genres. To find out what the genres appear to be about and then what they're really about. And it's often quite different than what you would think. So let's then get into horror as our primary example today. How it is, as you argue, intrinsically tied to religion and to fear of death,. Like in terms of its origins and the way that it works on people primarily.

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