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.

Analysis, Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 2, 2019Grady Hendrix, Horrorstor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Postscript on Societies of Control, Paradigm & Syntax, postmodernism, horror, monstersComment

Teratology: on Monsters in Fiction.

Episode 9, “The Hounds”, is the episode I commonly think of as “mine” (the finale, of course, has my grubby fingerprints all over it, but that’s a discussion for another time,) just as Episode 8, “Cassandra”, belongs to Edgar.

Analysis, Written by: Cameron, PoliticalCameron SummersApril 10, 2019Analysis, monsters, Perdition's TeethComment