Dreaming Nightmares: Horror Theory, Horror Blood Part 1
By Jacob Malewitz
There is something about the horror which just keeps going, slowing for the kills, if you could call them slow, and building for something dramatic. There is a reason talented writers dream up these nightmares. It’s not the junk fiction with revealing covers anymore … well, in most cases. What Ray Bradbury, R.L. Stine, Stephen King, and Robert R. McCammon did for the horror is one thing. But what one woman named Mary Shelley did with Frankenstein, and what one writer named Bram Stoker did with something about vampires called Dracula—these things cannot be undervalued. Without these nightmares, the modern nightmare wouldn’t exist. Horror allows you to escape …
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