Episode 120 - Supernatural Horror in Literature Part 1!

[Genus Unknown]

It's up early, peoples!

EDIT: Wait, today's Thursday. OK, it isn't early at all. But it's up!

[Cacodaemoniacal]

Fear is the mind killer!...sorry, had to.

It's fantastic that this text is so dense with meaning that you can devote a whole episode to the first 3 paragraphs!

I would argue that deeper even than fear is avoidance and fascination. I don't mean unease; I mean acting a certain way based upon wholly unconscious thought processes. Unease and fear can progress out from the recognition that you are acting a certain way--and having to try to figure out why. There's a lot of research going on these days about cues in the environment (like for instance frowning faces) that can influence actions and reactions--without our even being aware. A book called "Ordinary Horror" uses this to excellent effect (and I'm pretty sure he's influenced by Lovecraft).

[matthewhudson]

Horror in literature? Understanding something through snaps and actors is so damn easier then reading the same lines in literary books. Even more difficult is remembering repeating the same.

[Vulpine]

Finally got to listen to it today, was fun.  Had to go and order the Joshi annotated version to read along with.