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The Frighteners Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore
Peter Laws The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things that are spooky, morbid and downright repellent. He meets vampires, hunts werewolves, talks to a man who has slept on a mortuary slab, and is chased by a chainsaw-wielding maniac through a farmhouse full of hanging bodies.
A celebratory exploration of what our morbid tendencies can teach us
Staring into a Transylvanian night, he wonders what is it that makes people seek to be disgusted and freaked out? And, in a world that worships rationality and scapegoats violent video games and gruesome films, can an interest in horror culture actually give us safe ways to confront our mortality? Might it even have power to re-enchant our jaded world? Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets, and join the Sinister Minister on his romp into our morbid curiosities.
B-format PBK PETER LAWS is an ordained Baptist minister and the author of crime fiction novels Purged and Unleashed (Allison & Busby, 2017). He writes a horror movie column for the Fortean Times and hosts the popular podcast/YouTube show The Flicks That Church Forgot, exploring the deeper themes of morbid culture. He lives in Bedfordshire. 40
Psychology/Sociology/Religion 9781785783968 ÂŁ8.99 9781785782213 (ebook) ÂŁ6.99 (eBook) 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Hardman & Swainson