Posts tagged Horrorstor
Cameron's Book Reviews: Putting a Stake in 2019

I also tend to do much smaller book challenges than Edgar does, specifically so I can spend more time ruminating on things. Of course, this means that I don’t explore quite as much, and often end up picking through the remainder of their omnivorous ranging for my own reading.

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An Anger Bigger than the World: Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör and the Specter of Discipline

I’m generally not a fan of mixing comedy and horror. Mixing the two can have the disastrous effect of collapsing the horror into mere farce. I’m delighted to say that Horrorstör doesn’t do that: the comedy is found in the perspectives and reactions of the characters instead of the absurdity of events that surround them. It achieves its goal by placing a comic perspective within the context of horrific events.

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