New essay, “Plumbing the Depths: Haunted Writers and Haunted Writings,” in Nightmare Magazine

“I propose that horror literature, by definition, hinges on this vexed dialectic, between the affective destruction of thought and the creative process of thought (specifically, of cognizing the incognizable: the supernatural, the numinous, the unseen, the illegible). Within this dialectic, the horror writer oscillates between helpless prey to horror and the creative agent of horror.”

Read the full essay.

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