re: #72 scottslemmons

As Stephen King says, horror is a conservative genre at its core. Doesn’t mean it’s bad, doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of liberals writing horror, but the default mode for the genre boils down to “The Other disrupts the status quo — shall we restore order or will the Other reign?”

That’s very much American horror. English horror OTOH has a strong tradition of “the evil was already long here and it came from us.” Which I guess could be seen as a liberal subtext.