The “invisible monsters” of climate change and extinction stalk us all, but these experts in terror also remind us that fighting monsters helps create hope.
“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.” — Peter Straub (1943–2022)
Who needs vampires, werewolves or serial killers this Halloween when you’ve got oil executives, polluting companies and climate-denying politicians?
After all, environmental horrors don’t just happen one night or season each year. They’re with us all the time now.
Even some of today’s top horror novelists tell us they’re having trouble processing the latest overwhelming climate disaster or extinction threat.
But that’s one of the values of horror: Sometimes you just need to know that someone else shares your fears, to acknowledge that you’re not alone.
At the same time, horror fiction provides a safety valve for the pressures of modern society. As the late horror director Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street) once said: “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.”
What environmental terrors keep horror authors up at night — and what gives at least some of them the hope of escape?
Turn out the lights and find out:
Horror Writers Reveal Their Environmental Fears • The Revelator
“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.” — Peter Straub (1943–2022)
Who needs vampires, werewolves or serial killers this Halloween when you’ve got oil executives, polluting companies and climate-denying politicians?
After all, environmental horrors don’t just happen one night or season each year. They’re with us all the time now.
Even some of today’s top horror novelists tell us they’re having trouble processing the latest overwhelming climate disaster or extinction threat.
But that’s one of the values of horror: Sometimes you just need to know that someone else shares your fears, to acknowledge that you’re not alone.
At the same time, horror fiction provides a safety valve for the pressures of modern society. As the late horror director Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street) once said: “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.”
What environmental terrors keep horror authors up at night — and what gives at least some of them the hope of escape?
Turn out the lights and find out:
Horror Writers Reveal Their Environmental Fears • The Revelator
