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It's October, which means Cold is going all-in on ghosts, monsters, aliens, and all creatures of the night or things that go bump in the dark. This week, we're diving head-first into the bloody, brain-splattered world of the horror story! Horror, second only to Romance, is the most maligned genre in fiction. Rarely taken seriously, and treated more like a carnival sideshow. But I charge that horror is as integral a theme for our psyches as the love story, and it doesn’t really matter whether it’s presented in the form of schlocky genre fiction or serious literary endeavor. In the end, all horror stories serve the same master: An instinct to solve mysteries, seek out danger for the sake of mastering our fears and our environment, tame the monster within or without. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/truth-and-dare-the-dangerous-allure-of-the-horror-story/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-dougherty/support