Thursday, May 12, 2022

Horror: A Choice Between Masks and Monsters

"Not many people are comfortable with horror -- I'm certainly not. But it does allow me to play with metaphors and imagery that would otherwise be too disturbing or too bleak for me to confront. It's like the difference between a monster and a monster mask: I can at least recognize a mask when I see one, but monsters can be hard to know."

-- From an email that I sent on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 to my sister, who does not read horror.

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