Ghosts of Horrors Past
Jan 11, 2020
2 minutes
—Kartik Nair
What strange, secret acts of violence have you committed, just so you could feel normal? Those acts are the subject of horror films, which re-read the book of human history as a catalogue of inhuman cruelty—psychic and physical, from the self-inflicted and suicidal to the murderous and genocidal. In horror, the smooth skin of daily reality is revealed to be riddled with wounds that
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