How I Seem to Be Conflicted About Dark(er) Fiction
Is the horror just a perception?

I am not a horror fan. I cannot watch old movies like Scream and Halloween and I Know What You Did Last Summer, much less any of the new ones. I adore Stephen King and his wisdom and his natural-born humanity. But the only two books of his I could read comfortably were The Dead Zone and On Writing. I made the mistake of…