The Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses the horror genre Renaissance.
From the article...
Scary monsters are coming out of the closet. And leaping off the pages. The oft-dismissed genre of horror fiction has been creeping into some unexpected places in the last few years: the book-review pages of major publications such as The New York Times; the shortlist for the esteemed Man Booker Prize; college syllabi; and the best-seller charts.
Horror literature is being viewed as, well, literature -- and scaring up more fans in the process. "It's not just seen as genre fiction anymore," says William Patrick Day, a professor of English and cinema studies at Oberlin College. "Those older boundaries between serious fiction and things clearly within a genre are breaking down. People are starting to see more clearly that there is a wide range of things that can be done within the genre."
Thank the vampires. These blood-sucking creatures of the night are at the forefront of the current horror trend.
From "Twilight" to "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries," bloodsuckers lurk all around, including in the book world.
"Two things make this the perfect storm of the undead," says Eric Nuzum, author of "The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires From Nosferatu to Count Chocula."
"The number of vampire movies isn't that much different now than it has always been. The difference is that vampires are more popular. . . . Books are exploding because, more than any other industry, the publishing industry apes success."
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