What is horror? The movie business made millions on horror films that reduced the genre to the on-screen depiction of outlandish monsters. But a handful of literary works have explored an alternative conception of horror—one that resides in our own hearts and minds. When Colonel Kurtz, at a key juncture in Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, shouts o…
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