An odd thing about the publishing world today. The genre of horror is pretty much shunned by many publishers. Horror has been renamed things like, Dark Thriller or Paranormal Dark Thrillers. Stuff like that. I wonder about that since I know a lot of people love a good Horror yarn. In fact this weekend, Drag Me To Hell is being released with much fan fair into the movie theaters around the country.
But alas there is only one real heavy weight of horror and I think we all know who that is. In case you don't, I'll give you a hint. Stephen King for Christ's sake. He has been "The Man" for like the last thirty years. He is a celebrity. And he writes horror. Okay, there have been a bunch of his work that has not been horror, but much of it is. And I love it.
Some of my other favorites are Jack Ketchum, again not horror necessarily but thriller. And I love Anne Rice. Not horror like Stephen King but horror elements. And she mixes erotica in for good measure. As one of my other posts mentions, sex and horror make magnificent bed fellows. Not the mechanical nature of pornography (which is fun in it's own right) but sex in relationship and horror.
Anyway, I am rambling here so will get back to my point. I believe we are on the edge of a horror Renaissance and I hope to be one of the author's to help spur this on. It has been twenty years since we have seen the like of Mr. King and I hope that we are about to see this come back around.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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