Horror and the Holy

Horror and the Holy
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Publisher : Open Court
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9780812698756
ISBN-13 : 0812698754
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Book Synopsis Horror and the Holy by : Kirk Schneider

Download or read book Horror and the Holy written by Kirk Schneider and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror steers a middle path between fanaticism and despair: the path of wonderment. Horror teaches us that the human personality is paradoxical, that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom, and that both poles are vital to individual, social, and ecological well-being.


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