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- Title: Introduction: Fear and Fantasy (Work Overview)
- Author : Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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I must not fear," chants Paul Atreides to himself in Frank Herbert's Dune, "Fear is the mind killer" (8). One of the narrative mainsprings that fiction writers install in their work to keep it ticking is fear. It's a reliable source of suspense, conflict, and reader identification--everybody is afraid of something. Only in one branch of the fantastic, however, is fear so central that it (or one of its emotional cousins) names the genre: horror. I don't want to get into the niceties of definition here--how horror differs from psychological terror and how both are related to dread, loathing, the shivers, trepidation, or abhorrence. I am thinking of the uses of fear and the way it seems to have replaced thought and hope in various forms of popular discourse. Walk around your local video store. How many yards of shelving are occupied by DVD boxes adorned by chains and axes, dripping with blood? How many Fridays the 13th occur in a century, anyway? Hasn't every alien and predator and terminator already crossed over into the universe of every other? When did we start outsourcing our horror to Japan and Korea? When I'm not composing rhetorical questions like these, I frequently find myself wondering who supports this industry or watching with my own brand of horror the sight of families with small children snapping up these grim and violent films.
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