What’s brought contemporary horror back from the dead, in part, is horror as social allegory.
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Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit

Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead back to Stephen King.

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